The Fordson Tractor Pages Forum

Mathias is right, the double lip seal I/d c44mm is for the New Performance tractor. Today two single lip seals I/d c54 mm are used for all other tractors, however when the E1A Major was launched in 1951 the first few months production were fitted with a double lip seal I/d c54mm, this must have had ...

That is very strange. There is no way that Ford would have used anything other than standard generally available Imperial sizes for its bearings and components, especially clutch spigot bearings. If you specify a non standard size for something as simple as a clutch spigot bearing you are running in...

The original bearing for this application would be a standard 2 inch by 1 inch by five eights or half inch Imperial sealed ball bearing. These Imperial bearings are still available from specialist bearing and oil seal factors such as The Bearing Company, Henderson Bearings etc, look online. One inch...

The usual bearing clearance grades are C1, C2, C3, C4 and C5. A C3 grade is taken as the standard normal clearance, C1 and C2 have less clearance and C4 and C5 have more clearance. Is the commentator in this article sure that the issue here is not more to do with the supply of the nearest metric equ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Any further photos.....?????

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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!

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...