Buttbuggy

[Franz]

Picked up a Craftsman 1960s vintage tractor that's in good shape, and should easily convert to a 2 passenger ride for shows this fall.
Problem is it has a Tecumseh with the 1st generation solid state ignition.
Is there a reliable conversion for these engines that will get me to the point I can use a coil and not need to get towed?

[bgsengine]

Picked up a Craftsman 1960s vintage tractor that's in good shape, and should easily convert to a 2 passenger ride for shows this fall.
Problem is it has a Tecumseh with the 1st generation solid state ignition.
Is there a reliable conversion for these engines that will get me to the point I can use a coil and not need to get towed?

I dont have the link handy but check out smoestak - I know of at least two different places that make a conversion kit to convert the solid state ignition to 12v triggered by the trigger pins - Ive got the bookmarks on my other computer - here's one that comes up on a quick bing search - http://www.welderpartswarehouse.net/Tec ... 10906.html

if that is the one you mean...

[Carl]

BS, did you mean smokestack? Carl

[bgsengine]

BS, did you mean smokestack? Carl

Yup - however it is spelled. - I typoed

[Franz]

Haven't bothered to look at that site since Harry's organ monkey and the pretend banker took it over and ruined it. No reason to go there now.

This &*)*%# Cump is GENERATION 1, no trigger points.
It is now shelved, replaced by a Briggs "7hp" model 19. Oddly the casting for the Cump has a point housing, no hole drilled for a pushrod though.

Oddly it looks like the Briggs has a larger bore & longer stroke. Couple more days and I should have the power train together.

[bobodu]

I was wondering if you were even allowed to post over there Franz....
Kick en inna nutz....

[Franz]

I was wondering if you were even allowed to post over there Franz....
Kick en inna nutz....

Don't know if I am or not Bobo. Don't much make a bit of difference since Harry decided to let the organ monkey mess with posts and that little peanut beggar figured out how to get real clever with which posts show and which don't.

I walked out right behind Rev Jim Jake Templin the day he got hosed. I'll be damned to hell if I support that kind of crap.

Harry called me on his dime and we talked for over an hour. Harry knows exactly what happened, and Harry Matthews fully supports the actions of the organ monkey and the bank teller. I said I wasn't going back and I damn well ain't. I'm too damn old for children's games!

Fire went out over under the SmokeStak just like it has at the Alexander NY Steam Show. Bunch of new people got to running the place and since they're all smarter than the men and women who built it they make changes. What I'm hearing about Alexander and seeing with my own eyes makes me wonder how long that will survive. It's sinking to the level of the NY Railroad Museum real quick.

Last year LN and I drove over there and left 2 hours later. We didn't do much walking around, the half mile hike/crawl from Handicap Parking to the sawmill beat hell out of both of us. I'd dearly love to spend a few minutes with the genius who set up the peopletrain system at Alexander. &(%#&^!( idiot setup has the trains jammed with people before they get to handicap parking. They got a fat woman riding around in a Gator yapping into a radio who is supposed to be running the train system. She couldn't run clothes through a Maytag wringer machine. They got a real good story too; Not enough drivers for the trains.
Well DOH collegeboy, if you didn't run off all the people who drove them tractors for years, so you can insist people come to meetings to learn to drive a tractor you might have more drivers than equipment to drive. It worked well with converted hay racks for years before you took over.

I've spent near a year trying to get a Handicap Permit for my buttbuggy or golf cart from those fools, and only this week managed to get sort of an answer from Irene. Their website is BUSTED, they know it, but nobody knows how to fix it. Irene gave me some clown's phone number who is in charge of permits, but he don't answer the phone or return calls. I hear Harry Matthews loves Alexander.

[bobodu]

Pretty much the same thing happened at MTF.

[dennisgb]

I think that guys phone number they gave you is in India

No big deal you wouldn't understand him if he answered the phone anyway.

[Franz]

I think that guys phone number they gave you is in India

No big deal you wouldn't understand him if he answered the phone anyway.

NOPE, the number is to his SmellPhone and he lives less than 20 miles from me. He just doesn't like answering his phone or doing the job he offered to do.

OK, you probably have a point on the understanding thing.
I damn sure didn't understand a bunch of kids riding grampa's buggy around that damn show last year with the Handicap signs on them.

Deal looks to me like a bunch of matriculated morons bit off far more than they could chew and now they're failing with great flourish.