The Fordson Tractor Pages Forum

A '643' is relatively cheap to buy (for its size, compared to car-type batteries), fits a Major's battery-tray, and has enough oomph to start a 6-cylinder combine engine in summer, and a Major in a normal Scottish winter: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR1.TR...

There are obviously lots of ploughing videos on YouTube, and this is one of the best I have seen - it's filmed by someone who is sowing [I would guess, wheat] with maybe a power-harrow/seed drill combination. It shows the frustration caused when your plough gets choked with weeds, or lumps of muck, ...

Think they would be 1/2" UNC?

It depends how good your front axle is.. but I find High-reverse is a bit too fast to comfortably reverse a trailer without much slipping of the clutch. I mention the front axle because the kingpin bushes on my tractor are very worn, making steering heavy, especially in reverse; if the axle was bett...

From here, it looks in pretty good condition, and mostly complete - although it is missing the hose between the air filter and manifold, so put that on your shopping list, although the engine will start up without it. Is there oil and water in it? Have you tried on a battery, does it turn over? A ca...

Had to sign in to Yahoo to see your photos because of the 'Adult Content'... and, right enough, when I had a glance through a few of your photos, I did find two of your big sexy injection pump... Phwoarrr.... :lol: :lol: :lol: What make would that post hole borer be, do you know? Interesting that it...

Did you say, 'pretty much anything'?

Hard to tell if this is 'staged' - but it made me laugh anyway..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx-JicDWlCI

Have you tried using the backhoe with the front pump, is it fast enough? Because if you could pipe the return from the backhoe into the loader frame, you would have a similar layout to any modern backhoe-loader, and very like the early JCB's which were built on a Fordson Major chassis; with one, fro...

Where were you thinking of fitting the fuse - between the dynamo and control box? Or somewhere else in the loom? Personally I wouldn't alter the new loom at all, assuming you get one which fits the tractor nicely, because every new terminal will be somewhere that can possibly corrode and cause unrel...

I'm back from holiday, full of questions.. :D Is the pump repairable, have you had a look to see what has happened to it, have you looked inside it, did it suddenly stop pumping or has it gradually got weaker in output/pressure? A pump is only 2 gears inside a casing, there isn't much to go wrong, i...

Hello Robhar, welcome to the forum! Some photos of your pto/pump arrangement would be helpful.. But in the meantime, have a look through Mark's excellent selection of photos, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16a31mDdLYrQGe-M80BwqR7KuMr5mX8YJ particularly the one showing the back of the tractor...

A couple more from last year: This is how the Fordson was transported to/from the rally - behind the Ferguson.. I guess from not far away.. https://i.imgur.com/kJ4SbzU.jpg?1 I'm still not sure about the colour of the 6-cylinder Super Major - but I think I like it.. https://i.imgur.com/2MqXvEg.jpg?1 ...

Hmmm, I hope that implies that they have changed the transmission from single-clutch to live-drive (see our conversations on this subject in other threads here in recent weeks), so that the high-low lever's positions have changed, from 'up' to select low ratio, to 'down'? This must be a serious bit ...

Wow that looks great as it is.. although I am not a paint-and-polish person, I like to see machines in their working clothes. There is certainly nothing wrong with its brakes, they held it easily when you stopped half-way on to the truck :) Big wheels + wheel weights (+ diff-lock of course), it must...

Remember everyone - Byth Rally this weekend (1st July).. and it doesn't forecast rain!! Sorry we don't have a website or anything.. although we do get a little mention on the, rather gloomy, Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Byth A couple of photos from last year, when there were rat...

Yes, we need to see photos of this tractor 'in serious need of love and care'. Quickly.

You're not far off.. Narrow your front furrow a little, and maybe lengthen the top-link to let the back bottom/body in a little deeper.. then alter your ploughing depth and/or skimmers to bury all the grass? It looks nice light soil, I can see why so many Scots left the rocky hillsides and wet boggy...

You may be a 'grown man of 50' but you can still enjoy playing with tractors, and the childhood memories they bring back.. Like you some of my happiest memories are from my holidays spent on my uncles' dairy farm in the 1970s, and using their Major to scrape slurry, buckrake silage, and cart muck, o...

According to my manual - you got the decimal point in the wrong place, Henk :lol: Ring end gap (all rings): Desired 0.011-0.016 Wear limit 0.040 Ring side clearance in groove (all rings): Desired 0.002-0.004 Wear limit 0.005 I think we deserve a few photos of your tractor when it is finished, for al...

From the I & T manual: Con-rod bearings: desired clearance 0.002-0.0035; max allowable clearance 0.005. Crank should be reground if taper exceeds 0.001 or out-of-round 0.0015. Main bearings: desired clearance 0.0025-0.004. It doesn't say, but it's an American-published book so I guess the units are ...

Have you got the pto engaged at both levers, the one by your left leg, and the one at the back of the tractor? There is no secret trick we can tell you about.. you just have to have the clutch plates centred in the cover, then have the engine and transmission straight and level with each other, then...

Ahh... yes I think you need a whole new loom, then work from there. You 'should' have to switch on the key before you even get the tractor to start.

I think ... power should come from your ignition switch, through the ignition light, and then to the small terminal on the alternator? And I think , that this should be similar to the dynamo, so the existing wiring shouldn't have been altered too much. The output from the dynamo would have went to t...

Look what I found - and the right side of the Atlantic too! They want $19.73 to post it across here :shock: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1967-I-T-FORD-TRACTOR-SHOP-MANUAL-BOOK-FORDSON-MAJOR-DIESEL-POWER-SUPER-5000/222935726381?epid=1404089616&hash=item33e801392d:g:cCUAAOSwh0Za2p5L It is paperback, sam...

Mark it's the outer edge of the sleeve, that should be 2 to 4 thou above the block.

Ref I & T 'shop' manual FO21, page 24. From your side of the Pond