Tad Wicks

outstanding, beautiful lawn deserves beautiful equipment. Well Done

It not really unusual for a few small bubbles to appear, compression gasses can squeak by, It's when coolant starts coming out stack and you have black dots covering the hood that you know you have a problem.

There was a huge Mare's Tail problem here in CA mostly in the vineyards, irrigated land and the county road easements. the best thing that worked in the irrigated carrot ground that had to be selective on what got sprayed was a wick type sprayer when the Mare's Tail, Pig Weed, Prickly Lettuce and Telegraph Weed grew taller than the carrots. No spray mists only contact through the rope wick and in the very wet season, two people walking with a gallon back pack tank and a rope between them down the rows worked great using a Phenoxy or Gramoxone (Paraquat) herbicide. Glyphosate is a waste of time on Mare's Tail.

It has to go in a manner that the hose misses the release fork but I don't remember which way that is, I will check the book

I have the service manuals as well.

Funny story, not me. A good friend of mine grew Chuckers and Pheasants and had a delivery route from one end of California to the other, this guy's cruise control was a brick on the throttle pedal. One early morning like 2 am he was on interstate 5 coming home, back then 5 was pretty empty except for trucks and he was flying low, a CHP pulled him over and came to the window and was angry and asked if he knew how fast he was going, my friend answered ''yes 120'' and the officer said why in the ********** are you driving 120 MPH and he answered '' because it won't go any faster'' the cop laughed and gave him a ticket for something like 85. True story

The daisy sniffing, don't know what sex they are, everybody gets a trophy mask wearing brain dead screwballs are going to get their way, in one manor or another. Maybe Elon Musk will develop some kind of LI-ION battery powered ray gun, the ignorant horde couldn't be to opposed to that😀

They tend to run a bit on the rich side anyway, I have never worked on a 142 but I must assume that it would be the same carb. I never have had to put in a new needle or seat in the older tractors, change over linkage should put pressure on the float valve when in the diesel mode. Check the float geometry and see if it might have have fuel in it. Check your ignition, that one should have the distributor instead of the mag, A wise old timer once told me that a lot of carburetor problems are ignition but the fact that it starts to run better as it runs out of fuel says something. Check your flipper, make sure that the flipping flipper is flipping all the way. Best of Luck

the rails are in the lid like you said, easy enough to disassemble when the lid is off. Another thought is the end of the gearshift is worn and jumped rails, I have seen that happen, but not on a 14. You might pull the lever first and see what gives

They were certainly a good rig. Weren't they one of the first with quad-track? or what ever they called it at that time.

When NAFTA got pushed through, Mexico could run it's trucks into the US a certain distance without having to adhere to the laws of the State they were in. Legal US truckers were pulled over and being cited for things like a marker light or tail light while the Mexican trucks, running rag tires, parts falling off and knots tied in chains and any other safety issue got a free pass.

well Mike, one consolation, it would have worked very well if you were making a forklift or a buck rake😀😀😀

I assume that there is no rail lock on this one. Maybe got a detent ball out of place or rusted? I am not quite sure how it would do that or the sliding gear is stuck on the top shaft. Remove the lid, there are bolts under the levers but I don't think you have to remove the levers to get to them just pull the pins on the linkage or unscrew them. It is a real buggar to replace the lid with the forks in the right position be careful, when the lid is down put in two bolts and try it you will be able to tell. When I first started farming I was about 17, I had a TD14 that would jump out of gear, I disassembled the whole flipping clutch and tranny, what an ordeal. I replaced a gear on the top shaft, put it all back together even the sheet metal then discovered that I had put the gear on backwards, golly was I disappointed and that is an understatement. Tad

I feel very much like a Roman starring at the Visigoths on the other side of the gate while they slap their swords in their hands.

well we all know who or whom to thank for that. Sad situation