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Sweeeeet! I'm glad I asked!

I wonder how much it would benefit from fresh spark plugs, valve adjustment, and throttle body balance . . . What is the TPS setting procedure on this system?

Counting on our Man-on-the-Scene @v11_meticcio for live reports!

Isn't the Sport 1100 ECU "pre-15M?"

Looking to create a new topic for new member @AdamCB . . . About Me I own a Sport 1100 and have an updated Cliff Jefferies computer https://www.myecu.biz/MyECU/index.htm I am trying to get the cold start and idle perfect and seeking a mentor who has experience with the MyECU product created by Cliff Jefferies to guide me. I would certainly appreciate assistance. thank you

Each post has the heart-shaped "like" button. The forum, itself, has a "like" button at the top of the page in the red header . . .

I do kinda love the interesting, oversize headlamp. This is not your "1100 cc tonti caferacer", @TeeC . . . let's have a look at that!

All good, sir! Turns out well that these two inquiries combined.

[moderator note]: I "split" the related posts on the brake master cylinder here from the general topic "What did you do to your V11 today ?" for better archiving. Yet, because they predate this topic origin, this topic now appears to have been started by @skibum69 rather than the original poster, @Revilo. Sorry for the change-up, folks. Just trying to keep things tidied-up and searchable.

@Lucky Phil just posted these links to front brake master cylinders in another thread. [I have "split" those posts here and they are seen as the first posts in this thread, now.] I have rebuilt my clutch master twice. The 12mm kit is available as Brembo part number: . OPPracing may be a resource for the brake parts, as well. https://www.oppracing.com/product_display/202872-brembo-oe-spare-part-master-cylinder-brake-12mm-seal-set-for-front-master-110436292/#&gid=1&pid=103200

Is that an antitheft technique?

Only saying it looked like that model. Not really sure what it was or if I have any way to find out. Likely it was simply a "275" (or similar) with no prefix. Certainly it was a product of the sixties and I am not kidding about the sorry brakes as well as the way the mower would drive the tractor, relentlessly. I clearly recall a dive down the side of a creek bank standing hard on the brake and clutch pedals, while pulling on the steering wheel to give it everything I had, and still being driven to the creek. Impressed me as bull riding, where in the bull does not give a twit about what the rider might care for. Considering a tractor for groundskeeping these days, I would be averse to "vintage" offerings, no matter how quaint, and go for modern, including rollover protection systems.

Ferruccio: "That will be pretty good. Let's get on with it " . . .

This IH B-275 looks most like my old tractor, @gstallons. And I do remember the term "live PTO", @MartyNZ. Pretty sure that is contrasted with "dead man's PTO" . . .

Day one with mySport: twenty-five years ago today !

Is this the bent plate, @Cordwainer? #2 GU01433400:

Wow, man, no idea. Something along the lines of a 360 or this 424, maybe it was a little bigger (over thirty years ago, now) . . .

I recall my IH tractor was maybe 30 hp, gasoline, and pulled a five foot "bush hog" (flail blade mower), five foot box blade, and would (barely) lift a boom with the 3-point hitch. It was probably from the 1960s and I got a ton of work done with it on that thirty acres. Apparently, something known as "brakes" were discovered sometime after it was built along with a clever mechanism that disengaged the PTO (Power Take Off) when the engine-transmission clutch is disengaged. I am sure that device has a name (?) Without the clever device, depressing the foot lever for the clutch does, indeed, stop engine power from driving the tractor. While the inertia of the spinning flail blades continue to drive the tractor along its path of travel, usually to some ill purpose. Did I mention the brakes . . .

For better discussion, this topic has been moved from the "Wanted" classifieds to Technical Topics. No doubt, the Rube Goldberg affair that serves as the V11 sidestand is a potential Achilles' Heel. The lower fastener is known to loosen and the large, upper fastener into the timing chest is to be torqued to 70 Nm. The complex mounting plate looks to be a casting (?) . . .

No one has ever heard the phrase, "Sorry I got that Kubota" . . .

After downsizing to 3 1/2 acres, I could no longer justify a full size tractor. "MrBill " is a single cylinder flat-head Briggs&Stratton ( 2nd motor, 2nd deck, 2nd transaxle) now in (light duty) service for his thirty-fifth (35th!) season. "Swampee ", the CubCadet, runs a 750cc Kohler air-cooled V-twin and came to me with a dubious history that may-or-may-not have involved some sort of swamp racing. Both are MTD products from Ohio, USA . . . Swampee has long served as my Hawker Odyssey test bed, running one of my PC545 out to its fifteenth year . . .

I thought this Ford was an 8N? We always called those RedBellies, but I learned they are also called "Boomers." After I sold my International Harvester, and thirty acres, Ford-New Holland built an homage Boomer 8N. Never even seen one, but had a hankerin' for one . . .

You've got this, bud!

Here is a good discussion of the issues and several solutions: