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by shepp
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:35 pm
Forum: Fordson Dexta
Topic: Super Dexta Hydraulics
Replies: 13
Views: 755

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...
by shepp
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: 354

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...
by shepp
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: Fordson major grinding noise
Replies: 25
Views: 371

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...
by shepp
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.
by shepp
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...
by shepp
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...
by shepp
Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:54 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: My New Performance Super Major Story.
Replies: 24
Views: 6712

Re: My New Performance Super Major Story.

Any further photos.....?????
by shepp
Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:53 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: 590E engine head problems
Replies: 58
Views: 30668

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.
by shepp
Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:00 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: 590E engine head problems
Replies: 58
Views: 30668

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.
by shepp
Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:00 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: My New Performance Super Major Story.
Replies: 24
Views: 6712

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.
by shepp
Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:36 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: 590E engine head problems
Replies: 58
Views: 30668

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...
by shepp
Wed Nov 15, 2023 3:09 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: 590E engine head problems
Replies: 58
Views: 30668

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 ...
by shepp
Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:36 am
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: 590E engine head problems
Replies: 58
Views: 30668

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...
by shepp
Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:47 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: 590E engine head problems
Replies: 58
Views: 30668

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...
by shepp
Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:52 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: Fordson New Major prices
Replies: 25
Views: 26259

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!
by shepp
Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:40 am
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: Fordson New Major prices
Replies: 25
Views: 26259

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.
by shepp
Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:28 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: Fordson New Major prices
Replies: 25
Views: 26259

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...
by shepp
Tue Sep 26, 2023 7:58 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: Fordson New Major prices
Replies: 25
Views: 26259

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...
by shepp
Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:13 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: Fordson New Major prices
Replies: 25
Views: 26259

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...
by shepp
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 ...
by shepp
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...
by shepp
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 ...
by shepp
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...
by shepp
Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:04 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: Fordson New Major prices
Replies: 25
Views: 26259

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 ...
by shepp
Sat Sep 02, 2023 3:52 pm
Forum: Fordson New Major
Topic: Fordson New Major prices
Replies: 25
Views: 26259

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...