Couldn’t wait, got the machine on the ground, and built a rope start pulley.
welcome in motocotivatore club…
Friend Goran, thank you for the kind words,…
You definitely have a good machine made according to the old school system, but you are competing Giorgio, we love these old Italian machines here, they are probably the best in the world, maybe only Japanese machines are equal to them. Best regards!
Thank you friends Giorgio and Tone, yes this machine seems top quality, really strong, never seen this brand in Sweden before, looking for a manual for it, but only found one in Italian so far.
Once i promised myself to Never ever! own a two wheel tractor again, after i gave away my old Belos (a Swedish built Gravely) it was a scary suicide machine, with a hysteric, big two-stroke, with no speed governor, and only two speeds: too fast, and way too fast! It also had the nice option to be able to shift from full speed ahead to full speed reverse, which lead to atleast two unwanted flying trips, one cracked rib, a scraped nose, a roll in nettles…
Well this Italian machine is really easy, slow gears, transport gears, good power on really low rev’s, i like it. It also have a comfortable handle, not like the Belos belly-hole-punch sharpened pipe handle.
It is a great find. Congrats! 
As a reminder, if it has a gearbox on the implement change the oil on it. The dirt gets in the seals and into the gearbox and destroys rototillers.
They make a racheting socket then you can more safely use a drill to start it.
He has a link to one in his description but I am posting the video because the first comment has a warning about the direction slider going out of position.
If it has 12v electric start, and I don’t use it that often I use the battery car starter. My new used battery charger can also start stuff. And I have the racheting socket. And I will probably get a LiFe battery for the lawnmower when that one dies since I don’t use it in the winter.
Is this because chicken don’t have teeth or because everyone has those cute swedish ducks?
Hi Sean, yes, chicken don’t have teeth, ducks are’nt that popular in Sweden, it’s only some “eccentric” people having pet ducks 
Next, thanks for the tips, but drill start is not an option, it’s a diesel… i have a very strong gas powered Tanaka drill, and thought i give it a go, it pulled the engine with the valve lifter/decompression activated, but as soon i released it, it was close to me and the drill started spinning instead…
I incorrectly assumed it was one of those pride of sweden things where everyone had to have a swedish flag and the matching blue swedish ducks. I could see where it might also be used as a passive protest against the government saying it was fowl too.
The whole drill spinning thing is the reason for the racheting socket. Not worth a broken drill or arm or something else when they are 20 bucks.
There actually is a Swedish blue duck 
i had one before, his name was Harry, but a fox eat him…
yes there is! I honestly was looking at getting some a while back. Rumor is they occasionally lay stainless steel eggs.
Then I found the Anconas. which have a large/extra large egg and lay a lot of eggs. They forage in grass well and they come in like 6 color variations.
You need a good plasma torch to open those ss eggs.
I never tried, my blue duck Harry never laid any eggs 
Ducks have feathers. If yours was harry it was probably a platypus. Don’t blame me. I just got up.
While that would have been hilarious to watch, I really don’t want you to get hurt.
I figured out your engine has a serious design flaw.
Watch this little short, and you will see how to properly start a diesel without using your teeth, and see if you can see identify the big missing pieces the manufacturer obvious cheaped out in your engine. You may need a whole flock of swedish ducks to properly remedy your situation!
The other weekend I was talking to someone at the car show. He had brought a nice old car. Can’t remember now which one it was. But he offered me a car he had sitting at his shop.
I went to look at it last weekend and decided it was such a good price I couldn’t pass it up.
It’s a 1985 Jaguar XJ12 Vanden Plas. Fully loaded with leather interior, power windows and power sunroof.
Hopefully I can get it fixed up nice. It would be a very cool Sunday cruiser.
It pulled really nice behind my truck. I hardly knew it was there.
All the tires were completely flat so we pumped them up when I left his shop and thankfully I made it home alright.
Under the hood it’s got a 5.3L v12 engine. It’s EFI but imagine a OBD2 controller without the readable error codes. I’ve not yet had it running. Still trying to narrow down the issue. It gets very difficult if I don’t know what to check first. Mostly it is all just trial and error.
He said it was running 10 years ago. Apparently the anti theft wouldn’t let it shift into drive though.
It’s got some rust spots underneath but the body panels are actually not very bad. A little filler and paint should do it nicely. It already had some body filled work done and the underside has been undercoated.
I was considering a similar one of those mid nineties obd 1 and mpfi to gasify before I decided on the volvo as it is more stealthy, they do have a massive trunk as to probably fit all the golfclubs, bags and possibly even the caddie
Cool sunday driver though, I hope you get it running without much effort 
And what Johan means by that is that it will easily accomodate a full size gasifier
Exactly, I meant that but apparently didn’t put it into text on the post. Luckily you came to the rescue and explained
Not sure if I want to put a gasifier on it yet. For now I just what to get it running and fixed up.
And yes the trunk is massive, but then again so is the engine bay. I can’t say the same for the cab. I’m over six feet and there is not a lot of spare head room. Definitely will need to take off my hat to drive.
If I get too annoyed with tinkering with this engine trying to get it going, I may just swap it to a Chevy 350. There is very comprehensive engine swap kits available that would make relatively simple to swap. Its also way cheaper to find parts for the 350.
We’ll see. I really want to hear this v12 run. It it turns over and sometimes will fire on a couple cylinders, but I thinks there is a problem with the fuel system. Anyway I’ll need to get a fuel pressure gauge to get that figured out.
These guys put a blown 350 in an XJ12. Pretty awesome. I miss the Roadkill show.
I miss Road Kill as well. Motor Trend killed all those channels in just about a fell swoop.
I’m sure you know that Freiberger has a youtube channel now and Tony Angelo has his you tube show. I really like Hot Rod Garage with him and Lucky Costa. I’m never going to build shit like that again but I like to see people do it.
Here is a 40+ year old generator that just had to follow me home from a last elder-gone; Estate sale:
I set up this picture showing the new 2025 high-thrust electric trolling motor. PM magnet fields, and weighs almost exactly the same. Same power consumption - similar delivered out power.
Both in front of the early 1980’s Coleman tent trailer. Sigh. In storage mouse eaten canvas now. Weak rotten zipper stitching. And a rust locked up underside, cables puller block. I COULD NOT GET TO FREE UP. Last two times up and down to be the girls summer fairy princess castle it has been an hours manual corners lifting struggle fighting snarled up lifter cables. Now propped up with lengths cut wooded 2 x 6’s.
The Wife has finally agreed that our camping out days are 20 years gone now, in our past. Given me the tent trailer now to, “scrap it out”.
Nope. Strip-out; yes. But with an existing title and state road certification I’ll turn it into a utility trailer. All welded steel tube frame. Low deck. Easy towing.
Ha!. If it’s made of metals and quality cast resin plastics you can get utility for decades and decades. Fabrics and thermal plastics - not so much. 3D printing is mostly thermal plastics.
Interesting and I got curious and looked at current production pop-up tent trailers . . . not much change except cheapening of the construction to pine wood framing; loose bed prop-rods versus captive no-loss on the Colemans, and added electrical/electronics features. Hard to improve an evolved; good-thing.
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