International Harvester TD18 out under its own power for the first time in approximately 20 years! Read more about its rebuild here - hadlow.ac.uk/search/results/e4...
This video brings back so many memories for me . Back in the late 70s I had a job working on a farm after school , the farmer bought an old td 18 , I believe it was an ex military dozer as it still had the heavy grill and light guard on the front . Some of the happiest days of my youth was helping to get the old gal working again . It was mainly used for mole draining the fields .
Nice machine, looks like it had an easy life and was well maintained, The rear winches are rare to see. Sounds good. We had one for loging and land clearing back in the 1970s.
Congratulations GOOD WORK please dont shut off the engine in gasoline cicle is dangereus cracks in the heads stop the engine in diesel idling after 3 minutes and never cracks the heads
Where did you find the distributor and the points and all of the parts that are inside the distributor? can you email me this info. I have the same machine. I cannot no spark to the plugs.
Hi Davis, I am one of the lecturers involved in the rebuild, we were really lucky to have all the parts with it when we acquired the machine. Spark is supplied by a magneto on this and the later ones I believe had coil and distributor ignition from a battery. There are lots of parts available especially in the USA but not so much here in the UK. Not sure where parts for distributor type ignition can be obtained but do have contacts for magneto parts if that's what you are running.
