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same from me

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Bulldog was a brand of hedgelayers and forest hand tools probably amalgamated with Hortag to make the tractor

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Received mine also. Many Thanks.

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Rhys
The button you pull out for starting is the excess fuel button it puts an extra dose of fuel into the system to help starting when cold, very common on most diesel engines. With the engine being a two stroke it will tend to be a bit smokey, once the whole crankcase is hot after running for some time it should get less, but then there may be loads of old oil and crud in the crankcase that has to burn off. there are a number of diesel additives that will help to clean it out. Again burning the carbon out of silencers used to be common on old two stroke motorcycle engines.

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Rob,

My exhaust is quite oily, I guess they always will be as oil in mixed with the fuel so it’s unlikly that it will be completely burnt off, however the exhaust fumes aren’t to smokey only when started so it’s running ok.

A previous owner has put a shield on top of the starter motor and solenoid to prevent any oil driving onto it, it has done a very good job.

My silencer really needs cleaned / decarbonised; to clean it the manual says that the it has to be burnt out and all the exhaust components made red hot in a forge or with a welding torch.

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That’s a nice find. It’s in reasonable condition too.
I have found my exhaust to be a bit oily when working the MG40, would you notice any oil coming from the exhaust on your machine? I have zero experience with two-stroke diesels and don’t know if this is to be expected.

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Found this decal after I wiped away some of the grime where the dirty old exhaust has been blowing, re angled the exaust to blow away from the body.

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Thanks for the info, guys.

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Happy New Year Trusty. All orders to, Mr holdhard down wait a minute way. In deapest Devon.

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Thanks Martin, yep I had a good one. Hope it was to same for you. I was thinking a few might have seen the funny side of this. But it seems not. Back to the mulled wine.

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Hi Jon.
If you Google Howard 400 rotavator manual, you should see one on the top of the page.

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Thanks Crawler thats identified mine brilliant.

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Hi
British Overhead Irrigation Ltd, had its factory on the site what is now Shepperton Studios,near to Kingston upon Thames, London.
Nice sprinkler it was made from the late 1920’s to the mid 1930’s.
Hope this helps
Happy New Year to all
Andrew

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Hello Joe
I have attached two French brochures for the MG40. The first one does not show the rear of the tractor unfortunately. The second one for the MG40 N shows the same type of lift arrangement that is fitted to my MG40.
I wonder if what you are describing is the ‘cable lift’ arrangement as opposed to the hydraulic lift on the MG40 N ?
My MG40 has a French hydraulic pump made by Jenner instead of the standard pump you would find on UK MG’s. I have some photos somewhere.
Regards
Rob

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A gathering of MG’s sounds interesting, getting over from Northern Ireland with my lorry is a bit on the expensive side though so I will have to pass.
With regard to the video of the digger-dozer, I think YouTube would be your best bet as the forum has a size limit on files you can upload.

Rob

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