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6-12 MAYTAG TRACTOR

By Dale Luttig

Rt. 1 Box 22, Emmett, Kansas 66422

Gasoline engines have fascinated me ever since I was a boy, and I have been collecting them for some twenty-odd years, but more actively in the last five years. So far I've obtained forty or more with a number of them being Maytags. I started collecting Maytags about three years ago with the idea of building a tractor using six two-cylinder Maytag motors.

I finally started on the tractor in December 1986. I first took the engines apart, cleaned them and checked to see what parts, if any, needed to be replaced. Rings had to be put in a couple, and new condensers were put in all except one which had a Wico magneto. Spark plugs were also replaced. Some had cast iron fuel tanks and some had aluminum fuel tanks. I switched around among the Maytags I have until all six had cast iron fuel tanks because of the way I wanted to mount the...

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