The Fordson Tractor Pages Forum

I just dont think its a spring job. When wound up you should be able to put your hand on it and feel it vibrate like a motor running. These starters have been around in use for a long time, mainly used on large aircraft engines. Some of the later ones used a electric motor to wind them up. How they ...

Brian this charger appears to not have diodes in it. It has some sort of plate rectifier that I have never seen before. And it is no longer available from the manufacture. What is available is a diode bridge that seems to be very small. From a similar unit they build. So this has to be a conversion...

Brian: I need help on my Battery charger? Rectifier burnt up. While this a sears unit it was made by Century I found it both on the sears and Century site. But this rectifier plate is no longer available from either. Century shows a couple of replacements with diodes in them that may work. One has 8...

I can't say I can recommend the constant jet engine whine I hear 24/7 because of working in high noise environments in my younger days. I really cant recommend the "747" engine ear whine either. I got it bad right from the source, the 747. Having worked on them from the very first one built and oth...

. BearCreek: As for any "O" rings I have the boxes of kits on hand with most standard sizes so unless rings are of the "fat type" Ill have those. My cyl isnt leaking to the outside except where once there was a small pinhole wore in the barrel from rubbing on the front tire. I just put a dab of bron...

. BearCreek Majors Did you rebuild the Major cyl? If so where did you get the seal kit? And what was the price? I need to rebuild my SMD steering cyl but have been reluctant to disable till I have a seal kit in hand. While not in good shape it still works. I didnt want to go down for long right now. .

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Mark
The ones for the FMD are far to large to work with the dexta.

Are you looking to put a system together for your Dexta. If you are I can give you some ideas on off the shelf to build a system.
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. Yep this seal is leaking worse than the BP cap!;(( Its also leaves a puddle the size of the Gulf everywhere it sits and runs. Also running out of money for buying oil for it!! ;)) Then you got BP burning the oil as waste in the Gulf. And I cant afford to buy it!! I called BP and told them a quick ...

. Ok I been out and looked at an old timing cover that is off an old SMD forklift engine I have apart and it is obvious that this seal has to come out with the timing cover off. It has to be removed and replaced from the inside of it. So most of my questions should be answered in the older timing co...

. My front crankshaft seal has now come to the point it must be changed. How long should this job take to do? Can this seal be changed without the removal of the timing cover? Iam in the middle of summer weed kill and am wondering if I should stop and replace or just keep adding oil til Iam finished...

. I did the same thing on a couple of old machines one was an H-Farmall (gas), the other was a Old Yale/Hercules Fork Lift (diesel) that was a old militarily model that had a 24V electric system but couldnt find a 24V starter for it. I had problems with both, the same thing on each. The commutator w...

. I think that most FMD/SMD front wheels here in the USA are of the pressed steel type with 6 lug nuts. In these only the wheel comes off, unlike the cast center type where the bearing comes off. I just put the forklift under the axle and lift just enough to clear the ground. Pull the lug nuts then ...

. I had a problem like this on my 54 FMD, turned out there was a small crack in the top of the #4 cylinder liner. The crack was small but let oil into the water, not that if was flowing out, but enough. I repaired by brazing the crack with a easy flow high strength alloy. That was back in 93 or 94. ...

. I take it you mean the turnbuckles are seized. If so these to can be burned. Get them off the tractor, chains and all, build a wood fire with the chains streched out not in the fire. Heat them till red hot. After cooling with some penetrating oil they come easy. You can heat other ways to, but woo...

. Brian, Since I been around these Majors a lot longer than you,:) (just kidding) you should know just how stuck the sliders pistons/nuts get! Myself I have never found one that was in the pinned position setting for a long time that wasn't REALLY stuck. Mine even get stuck over a short time. Oil an...

. Around these parts Dexta's and their draw bars, if it is the mounted swing bar you want, are SCARCE. I have 2 Dexta's that were missing draw bar parts. I found that both the MF 35, and the old Ford 600, 800, 900 and up fit exactly. One I have the MF 35 swing box, the other has a Chi/com Ford repla...

Pete,
I have been around now all my life and still searching to find that "super age" seems all the same to me. Now more like in a quick wild ride to the bottom of a six foot hole!!;))

Dont even try to drill those arms, if those are original Fordson lift arms all you will do is burn up drill bits. I needed an extra hole in one I replaced on my industrial model with one from an ag model. That was due to different chain spacing on each. I had to burn that hole in with a torch. Also ...

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. Brian You probably already know it is near impossible for man to let go of the steering wheel! ;) It is such a perfect invention. You know there were tillers in motor vehicles once too. Those never seem to be as addictive as the steering wheel! Right?? Tillers were even tried on tractors here in t...

This is the pump actuator arm it is moved back and forth by a special lobe on the camshaft. This arm shouldn't be either removed from the pump or be off a new one. Nothing leaks from the pump when the pump is taken off the engine. That is unless you have fuel in the tank and forget to shut the valve...

Grani The Ag model is the only FMD?SMD that uses the upside down pump. The Industrial models use a bowl that is separate from the pump. When I got my first Major and had the pump off for the first time, I had no manuals or Inet to go to and FMDs were SCARCE in my area, I reinstalled the boost pump u...

When I acquired my first FMD (54) in the early 90s I run into the same problem. This was before the Inet and parts were scarce for this machine. So I rebuilt the screen and resurfaced the glass bowl. To repair the screen I removed the inner and outer rim very carefully. First I put it on a hot plate...

I also have some of those full electric (sel) starters. 2 of them just alike. One with 10 tooth and one with 11 teeth. One came from an old Ford truck (SMD FL) with a 4 speed, the other from a Clark Forklift (SMD FL) with an auto trans. Its been so long ago I dont remember which is which. But I susp...

Pete just remember auctions cut both ways. Auction companies ALWAYS tend to INFLATE the estimated selling price, they want the commish right! The price paid for an auction item only reflects the price of that time and place only! In a family estate situation and if you are part of that family, an au...