The Fordson Tractor Pages Forum

Hi, when I worked on mine, the gasket was a stock part from FNH and arrived next day ex warehouse. cheers, derek

wow, what a work of art! Nice orange grills!!!

Just love your toolbox on Dotty, Brian, has that look of a tractor at work! I just can't wait for Summer to get my mower out now!

Jerry,Hey, hole in one! As for adjustments, the height of the cutter bar is simply by changing the height of the skids either end. I don't have a manual, much the pity, but the general principal seems to be to have the bar set slightly ahead of square-on to the tractor, (use the double action screw ...

Is this the beast? I have one with the original maker's plate, it's a MF 327. I haven't found original parts anywhere over here but I'm always looking! It coped pretty well with the things I pointed it at last summer (dry oats, browntop, blue borage and other rubbish)but the small rocks hidden in th...

parts list names this as "cap (gear change shaft interlock)" so I guess the cap is missing?
Derek

Hey there, I watched that auction too, glad to hear it went to a good home! Damn good deal you got. I have a full repair manual including 41 pages on the petrol engine, give me a bell on 03 5724044 evenings and you can borrow it to use or copy, I'm only over the hill near Blenheim. Derek.

Just thought you might enjoy seeing what the kids at my son's birthday party wanted to do the most.



What could be better!

Cheers, Derek.

here's something a bit more basic, just a design I collected from an online auction . regards. derek.

1961 standard Dexta

Serial# 957E92647
clutch K24F
hydraulic cover L6F
L axle L21F
R axle M11D
Gearbox J20F
Engine 1492941

Cheers, Brian.

Hey, pjjms, nice to see someone else from this neck of the woods. We're just up the Waihopai valley out of Blenheim, perhaps we can share some tractor tales some time! Keep up the good work on trusty metal. Derek.

BarryM, I have sent you a message re this. Cheers, Derek.

How about "PETROL" !

Ben, Into the cap, the two small items are a spring, and a ball which locates in a race on the spool. With mine the absence of a cover to keep the weather out over time had allowed rust to lock this solid and prevent any movement. I seem to remember a roll pin holds the spring in and after this was ...

here's a brochure I picked up recently, might be of interest. If anyone wants a clean copy or particularly wants the original, that could be arranged. Regards, Derek.

Hey Kev, can't see you needing one at home... perhaps just for fun! I certainly make use of a portable in the bush though, great for backtracking to where you had lunch so you can go back for the things you left behind!

[quote]I guess you are talking about the Fordson Super Dexta up in Kerikeri for $800 on Trademe Yeah TSG, that is one of the items, also www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=221664304 and http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farming-industry/Farming-forestry/Tractors/Up-to-50-HP/auction-221548809.h...

I have been watching our NZ auction site, Trademe, with frustration. There are a number of attractive and cheap Dexta parts and whole tractors, all of which are a 3hr ferry crossing and many 100's of km away, in Northland. Just makes the whole deal too costly. Funny how things just don't seem to cro...

Man, I don't think I'd want those V8 pipes pointing up my snout!

Kev, opted out of the classroom couple of yrs ago, now in retail. Blenheim a great town, superb tractor museum (Brayshaw Park Heritage Museum) among other things.. like Marlborough Wine! Your last year at school same as mine, only I was in Gisborne on a farm.
Regards, Derek.

Kev, Trish was a cow vet there and I taught at Oto College from late 1995-2001. Lived at Te Raumauku on the farm of one Peter Scott. Probably have a few mutual friends
Cheers, Derek.

The manual certainly offer a range of figures depending on the year and tyre size @ 2000 rpm, from 27.05 - 27.95kph. The "New" Super was rated at 2250rpm doing 31.44kph. I guess if you want to crank out a few more rpm, who knows! You're in Hamilton? We had a few years in Oto. April... fog season sta...

I guess more than fast enough to outrun the Auckland rush-hour traffic! I never saw one entered at the Fielddays tractor drags!

thanks, Stefan. Hope you're not getting bored now your dexta is done!

Regards, derek

I'm still about where I was with my wiring. I have the older style starter with two wired terminals and the push-lever start. Does it matter which of the terminals is linked to the solenoid? There does not seem to be any indication that it does on any wiring diagram.

Cheers, Derek.