That 8 hp MTD is a cool little tractor especially seeing your daughter on it. I have that same engine on my JCPenney tiller with a pull start. It starts up every time first or second pull. I had to eliminate the glass bowl with the brass filter screen.
That’s a neat story getting the Colemans campers package with a car.
This tractor didn't have the glass bowl/filter during the time I have owned it. Sounds like a classic tiller!
I would think if someone had the car and all the Colman gear, it would fetch a pretty good price nowadays. Dad said owning a Ford was a bad omen when he put me on the front seat and I peed on it---LOL! I was around 18 months old.
MFDAC: That stove, 426E was built in 1967 to 1979. White gas only. US market only. The lantern 228E is a fairly common lantern built in 1951 to 1963 for the US market only. The 220J was built between 1975 and 1979. The propane 5114 lantern was built between 1973 and 1985. Most dual mantel lanterns will fall in the 200 to 220 series with minor variations from one model to the next. Coleman also made a lot of lanterns and camp stoves for Sears. Same item just rebranded.
Thanks again for the info, Roger! That 228E has been a great lantern as is the stove. They both still work perfectly. I try to fire them up periodically just to make sure they are ok. Mainly just use them now for power outages, but they got a lot of use in our camping days!
I knew nothing about camping before I met Carol. Her family were avid campers and everything they owned was from Sears along with most other things. My FIL thought Sears was the best with everything. When we got married we went and bought most everything we needed for camping but it was Coleman products. Oh my you would have thought I defiled his daughter my FIL was so upset. I knew they were the same but he would never agree because they were different colors. Lol
My mom was a regular camper when we were kids, even after dad left for a few years. We would go with her sister and husband. Usually just me by than as my sisters were in college.
Met Loree in fall of '75 and soon as the folks would allow it we started camping. At first using the '71 Monte Carlo I had. Sometimes with a tent and sometimes under the stars. Mom would let us use the '70 GMC Jimmy she had occasionally. Could get to more remote places with it. I still have that Jimmy. In '79 we bought the '72 GMC pickup we still have. Had a topper on it Been married a year by then. After kids came along, that '72 had a couple different basic cabover campers on it. We still own a monster cabover but camping in it just seems too hard to get time for anymore. Before kids, we would go to the races Friday night and after they were over head for the hills. Wouldn't come home until Sunday night to be ready for work Monday---if I was working in the area here that is.
Change is one word that should be removed from the English language. I ain't never changing and neither is June Bug!
Roger, Chris and Lorna, I'm the same way. It makes me mad when things get changed and usually not for the better! What once was simple, is now a nightmare to do the same exact thing!
Had a bunch of non tractor related crap to do today, and it was too hot to be outside. I even had to drag the old window a/c out and the Styrofoam spacer to work for a few hours out in the lift bay. Took the temp from 85 to 78, probably cooler right in front of the discharge where I was working on this old MTD.
Not efficient at all but still helps. I didn't want to open the overhead door up enough to bring the MF1450 in to crane up the front of the MTD so I pulled out the overhead shop crane. Takes some walking from one side to the other but not difficult.
I couldn't remember how to get the hood, grill off. The mount is slotted but was all bent up so it wouldn't lift off. Straightened that out. The other bolts weren't in it. Never have been during my ownership! While it was in the air, I tried out the new grease gun. Worked fine, and felt like the ones I used at my job far as feeling like it is pumping or not.
Lowered it back down and pulled off the hood. This is how I always used it as Uncle Bill told me it would vapor lock with the hood on.
Cleaned up this side of the carb for removal.
The muffler which evidently is incorrect came off nicely. Someone told me a long time ago that muller discharging under the hood causes the vapor lock being right beside the carb. Carb came off well too, but I bet the crankcase vent hose will be tough to find. It is shot. Might have to fabricate something different. I will still hang onto this engine if the rest of the tractor is determined to be too far gone.
I had to cut the fuel line to get the carb off so the gas tank came out along with that battery.
I did pull the caps on that old battery and could see there was some electrolyte still in it, but the cell plates look real bad. Didn't waste any time dumping distilled water in and attempting a charge.
According to Tractor Data, this looks to be an MTD660, made from 1973-1976. It was already looking just like it does now when I got it in '80 or '81! Uncle Bill must have been pretty hard on it!
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