Help Cure my Absentmindedness!

[Cal in TX]

Saturday morning - 6:45am. It's a beautiful East Texas morning, not too hot, just gorgeous. I do a full grease job on my NAA, put in 5 gallons of fresh gas and away we go to the back pasture to mow. With every round I am enjoying it more. The day is perfect, the tractor is purring like a kitten, the blades are sharp on my cutter, the morning just rushes by as I enjoy some wonderful seat time .... then

... she goes dead. Dry as a bone. I have been having so much fun that I have run her plumb out of gas. I am 3/4 mile from my truck and another 6 gallons. Now my beautiful day turns into a real rotter as I have to hike back to my truck to get the gas.

I know about the reserve setting on the cut-off valve, but that didn't work. She ran completely dry.

Here's my question - is there an easy way other than the old yardstick in the tank method for me to keep track of my fuel level? Do I have any options for a fuel gauge of any kind on an NAA?

Thanks!

Cal in TX

 

[Colin King]

Cal,

Red Rock Manufacturing makes one for the NAA/100 series and sells it for $23.00 I'm including a link to their site. Click the products tab and then scroll down.

Colin, MN

Red Rock Mfg

 

[Kenster]

Cal, I don't know if the NAA tank is much different from the 8N but you can buy combination gas caps/fuel guages. I see them on Ebay all the time. You may be able to get them from the YT Store on this website.
I use the calibrated paint stick for my guage and I'm starting to get pretty good measuring time mowing vs fuel burned. With a full tank, I never mow more than four hours or so before heading back to the house for a refill. I usually have a couple of gallons left in the tank, so I guess I'm burning about two gallons per hour.

 

[Cal in TX]

I have one of those, Colin. It is too tall and my hood door will not close when it is installed. I don't know if this is a problem just with my setup or not but it sure wouldn't fit on my NAA.

My gas tank if within an eighth of an inch of the hood and it has a hump in the middle that corresponds with the hump formed by the hood hatch. Just not enough room for the gauge.

 

[Ed S.]

The N I'm currently using (on semi-permanent loan from a farmer friend) usually starts to burp / cut out a little when she gets close to empty, especially as I corner or raise/lower implements. I'm learning to listen for that and head for the barn immediately. There's usually about 1/2 - 1" of gas left in the tank at that point...

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[Anonymous-0]

Cal. I use the stick methode and figure the 9N's burn one gal per hour. Haven't run out of gas away from camp but came close only because I was cutting it close with the timing. Ron

 

[Tom N MS]

One gallon per hour sounds more like what it should be. Two gallons per hour as someone else stated, sounds pretty thirsty to me unless you are under constant, heavy load.