The Fordson Tractor Pages Forum

I do not think Roadless used the dual clutch, at least I cannot remember one. The ones we serviced had HD 11" or 13" clutches, some had sintered bronze lobed discs like the County range. I work for an ex Roadless demonstrator repairing electronics, next time he phones me I will ask. The live clutch...

[quote="Ian"]There's some great stuff on ebay. Check out these .. Ian, I couldn't agree more. As far as I am concerned you can have the 6 cylinder; the 8 cylinder one is very tempting to me (if I had the money, too) because it is more exotic 8) . I have great admiration for people that can build the...

The Instructors never told us (Deliberately!) that the powder used was Sodium Bicarbonate. Where else is Sodium Bicarbonate used? Well its the raising agent in baking so we were breathing in the powder all day and over night what we had swallowed, manifested itself the next morning by 24 guys have ...

I always use the excess fuel button, as standard procedure (let's forget about what I used to do with the decompression lever - I won't do that again..). So far our tractor has started well whatever the temperature, although I have to say I didn't try it during that terrible winter many years ago w...

There is no problem about using the excess fuel button in any conditions. It just allows the rack in the pump a little more movement than normal to give her a little more fuel. We do not have extreme cold over here but from experience, even in the worst winters we had during the 1950's and 1960's m...

The blue beast is from '58 and was therefore well mature when I started making noise in 1963.

Roel