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- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:35 pm
- Forum: Fordson Dexta
- Topic: Super Dexta Hydraulics
- Replies: 13
- Views: 758
Re: Super Dexta Hydraulics
I had similar type of issues setting up the cover on a Super Dexta 3000. The problem is that as you get slight wear in the internal components, and as the position control rod bends slightly in use, then setting it up by the book often does not work, and you have to revert to trial and error and sli...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:26 pm
- Forum: Fordson Dexta
- Topic: How soon after an engine rebuild does one need to retorque.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 359
Re: How soon after an engine rebuild does one need to retorque.
Our Cheshire club member Phil Moston is a Perkins engine enthusiast and specialist, and what he doesn't know about the earlier engines is not worth knowing. His recommendation for the 3 cylinder Perkins and Perkins derived engines (Dexta), which can have a tendency to blow the head gasket between cy...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Fordson major grinding noise
- Replies: 25
- Views: 374
Re: Fordson major grinding noise
Sounds like it may an issue with the selectors and the interlock mechanism. You will need to take off the side cover near the PTO lever and investigate . Handbrakes don't usually stick off, it's usually the other way round. Has this one been stuck on and the plates been damaged or become welded toge...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: quick question fuel return line
- Replies: 5
- Views: 408
Re: quick question fuel return line
Interesting point. Some Fordson original service film footage shows injectors being replaced with Ford service replacements without any leak off sealing washers. Some head sets come with one washer per leak off banjo, some with 2 washers per banjo. Personally I would always fit 2 washers per banjo.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 2:26 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 1963 FSM rear wheels scalloped or not
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3197
Re: 1963 FSM rear wheels scalloped or not
Re your comment, Sandy, about Power Major wheel centres. Quite a number of Major tractors were produced for some weeks after the launch of the Power Major in July 1958, so I would have expected that all production line stocks of solid centres would have been used up by that continuing Major producti...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:36 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 1963 FSM rear wheels scalloped or not
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3197
Re: 1963 FSM rear wheels scalloped or not
All new E1A Majors were fitted with plain disc centres 11 x 36 wheels and tyres as standard. The scalloped centres came in with the Power Major and 11 x 36 wheels with scalloped centres and tyres were fitted as standard to all Power and all Super Majors. As an interesting aside, the Power Major in S...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: My New Performance Super Major Story.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6717
Re: My New Performance Super Major Story.
Any further photos.....?????
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:53 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 590E engine head problems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 30669
Re: 590E engine head problems
As I previously posted, contact " enginefixuk" and see if they have a supplier for an oil pump, they claim to have a dedicated manufacturer that supplies them with every type of oil pump.
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:00 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 590E engine head problems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 30669
Re: 590E engine head problems
Sparex do the liner shims you can order via Malpas Online (Malpas Tractors), and I would think EnginefixUK will do them as well, they apparently have a manufacturer for oil pumps so they might be able to source an oil pump if you find you need one.
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:00 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: My New Performance Super Major Story.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6717
Re: My New Performance Super Major Story.
It would be nice to see pictures of the engine number, casting codes on the block and head and gearbox etc., pictures of the lift cover back and front, engine etc., it all adds to the information that we all like to see and digest.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:36 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 590E engine head problems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 30669
Re: 590E engine head problems
In the past we have just fitted new liners and re-used the original pistons with new rings and the engines have been fine. However today with the advent of full engine kit sets it can sometimes cost nearly as much to do that buying individual components as it costs to buy the full kit with all new c...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 590E engine head problems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 30669
Re: 590E engine head problems
I agree with everyone, better to take the engine out to work on it and do the full job. You can be sure then that everything has been checked. The engine will have the later thick wall liners with top and bottom sealing rings. Get the crankshaft checked for ovality and scoring, you could just refit ...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:36 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 590E engine head problems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 30669
Re: 590E engine head problems
As I said previously, if the head tests out as sound then the only real alternative issue would be a fine pin hole in one of the liners. Issues with wet liners are not confined to the Ford engine, other makes of older engines suffer from them as well. Indeed modern engines with wet liners can have i...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:47 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 590E engine head problems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 30669
Re: 590E engine head problems
It's a fairly robust head with enough metal between cylinders and across the valve seats, and cracking is not known to be an issue but that doesn't mean it cannot happen. Having said that I did once have a D series horsebox in the late 1960's with the later 330 engine and that developed an invisible...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Fordson New Major prices
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26260
Re: Fordson New Major prices
That's very interesting to know, it's not a make I have come across before, and with the Rasspe knotters it will certainly make good knots!
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:40 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Fordson New Major prices
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26260
Re: Fordson New Major prices
One other point Emiel, your baler looks like a version of the New Holland 68 but different to the one's that were UK built? I like my balers, I have a NH Super 68, a NH 268, a NH 940, an MF 703 PTO baler and an MF 701 with Armstrong Siddeley engine.
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:28 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Fordson New Major prices
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26260
Re: Fordson New Major prices
Yes that's how they should be and how every genuine unmolested example I have ever seen is. It always puts me on guard when I see on an early tractor a low placed badge without the small "diesel" part when the tractor is actually a diesel engine tractor. My immediate suspicion is it's either an earl...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 7:58 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Fordson New Major prices
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26260
Re: Fordson New Major prices
Looks to be a very level tractor. With it's T handle brake catch and mudguards with a plain vertical face it is a later in 1952 model, so again I cannot understand the badging on the bonnet with the very low down placed "Fordson Major" and no room for the small "Diesel" badge which is missing. I hav...
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:13 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Fordson New Major prices
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26260
Re: Fordson New Major prices
Hi Sandy, not quite sure what is the point you are making here? The live drive clutch was announced at the 1956 Smithfield show, I have the edition of Farm Mechanisation somewhere that covered the new things to look out for at the show, although I do not think that an actual live drive tractor was e...
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 9:48 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: A famous Fordson ploughman
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4617
Re: A famous Fordson ploughman
Yes, the Majors and Ransomes ploughs had a good run winning at ploughing matches at all levels in the 1950's and into the early 60's. Around 1962 another make came into the spotlight and was the "go to" match ploughing tractor for a while, this was the International B414 B275 B250 type. The B414 in ...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: A famous Fordson ploughman
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4617
A famous Fordson ploughman
I only found out today that Hugh Barr MBE had passed away in June 2023, and he would be at the grand old age of 97! He was from Northern Ireland. He won the World Ploughing Championship in 1954, 1955 and 1956, and having won it three times in a row he was presented with the solid gold trophy of a pl...
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:23 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Compression Test
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4852
Re: Compression Test
Following John's remark, you need to be sure that it is number 1 cylinder, i.e. the cylinder nearest the radiator, that is on compression stroke when you have the 23 degree mark coming up on the flywheel, you can check this by removing the rocker cover and ensuring that both valves on no 1 cylinder ...
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Compression Test
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4852
Re: Compression Test
If it is a 1961 it will have a vacuum governed pump, if it is a non runner and has been parked up for a while with the stop control out the pump rack may be stuck so that not enough fuel is being injected for a start but enough to produce white smoke. Clean off carefully the side cover on the pump a...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:04 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Fordson New Major prices
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26260
Re: Fordson New Major prices
It's certainly true to say that there is a shift in the collectors market and currently it is the 1970's 1980's and early 1990's machines that are leading the pack. People who were in their teens when these tractors were the new kids on the block are now in their late 40's or 50's or 60's and early ...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 3:52 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Fordson New Major prices
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26260
Re: Fordson New Major prices
Hi Emiel They would have had outside suppliers for pressed steel items like body panels. However having studied many Major tractors over the years, decades, I am convinced that the differences in body panels such as wings are not down to particular manufacturers and suppliers, but are due to intenti...