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Old 8th Jun 2015, 22:51
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mikehallam
 
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FWIW. I still use a TVO/Petrol engined Ferguson TE20 tractor. It has a two compartment fuel tank - one for each liquid & selected to feed the carb. via a two way tap.

I don't bother with the TVO equivalent nowadays (there is a formula) as it never vaporised well enough and the scraper rings took a little into the sump so apparently it 'made' oil. In fact it was of course the paraffin going down & diluting the oil which wasn't a 'good thing'.
Cheaper to save the bearings and for the relativley low hours per year petrol is always in both tanks.

Used it today in fact, with PTO driving a 6 ft topper, to cut the airstrip here in sunny Sussex.

mike hallam.
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