[SEL] Ransomes MG2 Help needed please.

[Jerry Evans]

Hi All,
         Does anyone have a manual for a Ransomes MG2 Motor Garden 
Cultivator. (Please don't refer me to my own download page <grin> the 
manual there is for the MG5)

         This is the small tracked garden tractor made by Ransomes from 
around 1936. It was powered by a Sturmey Archer 6H.P. air cooled engine. In 
1938 they changed the engine to an improved Sturmey Archer engine (most 
noticeable difference was the Wipac Impulse magneto). It is this model I'm 
looking for a manual or help for.

         My mate, Justin (no internet) has been given one that is pretty 
rusted and has not run for 30+ years! He is busy stripping it but needs 
help on the centrifugal clutch between the engine and gearbox. This is so 
badly corroded that he would like to find a drawing or photo of the 
internals before he tries to get it apart - just so that he can see what it 
looks like before using force :-).

         The tractor is a really nice example of these and the MG2 is 
fairly uncommon. The serial number of his is MG 404 which is a pretty 
early  model considering that the eventual production of these was about 
30,000 machines. This was probably made just before the 2nd World War and 
was probably one of a batch shipped out here - I do not think that any 
would have been shipped here again until after the war.

         Justin gives me a lot of help with all my restorations so I'd be 
very happy if I could find this information for him. Thanks in advance Guys.

         If anyone here belongs to any of the tractor lists or forums (I 
don't) would you mind copying this over to them.

Keep the revs up (or down)
Jerry Evans
Near Johannesburg in Sunny South Africa.
Etched Brass Engine Plates made to order:
www.oldengine.org/members/evans/plates/index.htm



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