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Pretty sure it is a homemade conversion. It must have been hairy to drive as I am sure it would nose dive when lifting a load. Unless a clutch has been fitted it would be very hard work driving into a load, slow down select neutral, rev up lift load, slow down select reverse, rev up to start reversing, The rams are very large dia so it would have a big load capacity I am surprised the hydraulic pump of the MG6 would cope even with the extra oil tank but it obviously did. As a machine in its day it would have been ideal for mucking out calf boxes or stables with restricted access. I have seen loaders made to suit Ransomes crawlers other than the Ransomes Whitlock loaders I think it may have been Webb that made them also fitted to Wheelhorse and other mini tractors.

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I think an A series Wico magneto from a Ransomes MG2 will have similar mounts and sprocket chain drive.

[expeatfarmer]

Whereabout is Weeley looks like a fun weekend.?

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I have a spare used head gasket which if annealed will be fine, Neil may have new ones they are solid copper about .75mm thick.

[expeatfarmer]

Hi peter I do have a fan assembly and a timing case cover. I do not have a whole magneto, I have a body and rotor which Neil may be able to restore for you if he does not have a whole unit.
Jonathan

[expeatfarmer]

I have a cooling fan and housing spare.

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I have various spares covers manifolds etc make a list of what you need.

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Could well have been changed, I would tend to believe the data you have recovered from the id plate and date it at 1951. Just to clarify my last post on oil I should have added that I use sae 20 in the air filters to avoid rich mixture. I use sae 50 in the engine and gearbox and 140 for all the oil nipples and final drives.

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Which model of crawler are you trying to date? On my MG2 number 137 the diff stampings show the date in DD/MM/yy format.

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If you look around the outer edges of the crown wheels there are a series of numbers one of which will be the date of manufacture.

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There are two plugs underneath the crankcase, one under the oil tank to drain it and the other in the middle of the crankcase to drain fuel oil mix from the two stroke transfer cavity around the crank, it is important to keep the latter well drained if neglected the engine may self consume and run on the oil in the crankcase with damaging and possibly dangerous effect as it frequently happens when the tractor is on a steep slope such as a trailer loading ramp!!!

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My guess would be a blocked main jet in the carb.

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I find that the engines run rich with SAe 30 with plug sooting problems SAE 20 seems to work but it may be my imagination.

[expeatfarmer]

Certainly a show worth the effort, at night time it is spectacular. Should be on everyone’s bucket list.

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Very interesting Joe. Every time I look at an MG crawler I question why on earth they stopped making them.

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