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- Fri Feb 16, 2018 6:52 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: It makes one Sick
- Replies: 18
- Views: 36911
It makes one Sick
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp155/Majorman/Tractors/Tractors%20in%20Norfolk%202016/DSCN9388_zpsbmoadtja.jpg Since we have been back from Oz I have been stuck in the workshop but today I got a chance to take Henrietta down onto the field for a short run out. On checking round I discovered tha...
- Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:14 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Knock in No1
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14691
Re: Knock in No1
Seems you have done everything possible, just a couple of comments, not trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs: 1. Slackening off the injector pipe causes the knock to disappear. That may not be the injector that is causing the problem, you have changed the injector and the knock remains. A big...
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 4:52 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: 4wd "conversion"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8141
Re: 4wd "conversion"
On the DeLuxe Select-O-Speed tractors there was the option of a ground drive PTO that, with the wheel drive disconnected, would take the PTO shaft speed up to engine speed, say, 2200 rpm. Fords told us that, on a ground drive lime spreader, behind an SOS 4000, with the wheel drive disconnected, the ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 3:48 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: More on the Oz trip. Warning no Tractors
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4181
More on the Oz trip. Warning no Tractors
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp155/Majorman/Brian%20and%20Ann/DSCN0206_zpsqc260mzi.jpg http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp155/Majorman/Brian%20and%20Ann/DSCN0202_zpsdxop7usf.jpg http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp155/Majorman/Brian%20and%20Ann/DSCN0203_zpspta4vc4b.jpg Birds seem attracted...
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 6:23 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Handbrake adjustment
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10692
Re: Handbrake adjustment
As Shepp has said you cannot service the handbrake through the pulley plate, you can however adjust it through the gear selector plate, it is a fiddle but I have done it. I understand that you can remove the plates through the top with the High/Low selector removed but I have never done it, it was a...
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 5:54 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: More on the Oz Trip
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5378
More on the Oz Trip
It is not all Ford and Fordson or other tractors when we go to Australia you will be shocked to find out. We do visit other sites of interest like wineries, natural wonders, cities and wild life. We tend to get away from the cities and into the country and out onto the Murray River if given half a c...
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:47 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: The Pub 2018
- Replies: 19
- Views: 33850
Re: The Pub 2018
Yes it was one of my neighbors who lives opposite but his farm is about a mile away, have not heard anything today but hope it was not the pig shed that went up. rather exciting yesterday afternoon what with all 15 fire engines racing around the corner opposite.
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:00 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: The Pub 2018
- Replies: 19
- Views: 33850
Re: The Pub 2018
No need to worry, I am still going strong at the moment, just overwhelmed with work that everyone wants yesterday and you all have been doing such a good job there was nothing for me to do on here. Am trying to put together some Aus stories and some DVD's of Deniliquin for the Fordson Tractor Club o...
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:16 pm
- Forum: Fordson Dexta
- Topic: Petrol engine in Dexta
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6228
Re: Petrol engine in Dexta
I am back in England in wet and cold Norfolk Rick, and it is hard. Straight onto the soldering iron and have completed two orders since 1/1/2018. After nearly four months away the motivation is taking a while to kick in.
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:51 am
- Forum: Fordson Dexta
- Topic: Petrol engine in Dexta
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6228
Re: Petrol engine in Dexta
Most of the engine parts are the same as the FE35/TE20/MF135. The parts where you will run into problems are the starter ring gear, the flywheel is much larger than the Fergy ones and even bigger than the diesel Dexta. I had to get one from Canada for mine and I then picked another up in Australia. ...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 11:56 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: "FL" cylinder heads and Minimec pumps!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5836
Re: "FL" cylinder heads and Minimec pumps!
Shepp, That service letter is an original Ford one, as far as I am concerned there were no "spuriouse" service letters sent out by other than Ford or if there was I have not seen one. You may be right about the meaning of "FL", I have no information on this however I do know that Ford often brought ...
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 10:37 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: I'm back online
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7108
Re: I'm back online
Welcome back Emiel, looks like it worked then.
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:58 pm
- Forum: Fordson Dexta
- Topic: Dexta out working
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5193
Re: Dexta out working
What is the weather like there now? We were staying in Toura, Lakes Entrance and on Phillip Island in October and it was still cold. Had warmed up a bit by the time we got to Robinvale in December, 35 degrees on one day!
Did you get to the 100 Year Celebrations at Deniliquin?
Did you get to the 100 Year Celebrations at Deniliquin?
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:40 pm
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: "FL" cylinder heads and Minimec pumps!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5836
Re: "FL" cylinder heads and Minimec pumps!
Not so much of a myth as all that Shepp. :D :D :D Service Letter No. 7. August 1963. With the introduction of the new Performance Super Major, some redesigning of the Cylinder Head has taken place around the inlet ports with the object of improving the Induction Breathing. This is the only Head and ...
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:50 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Injector pump timing way off
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3325
Re: Injector pump timing way off
The engine flywheel marks line up on 23 degrees in two places, TDC No. 1 and TDC No. 4 so when fitting the pump you have to be certain it is on No. 1. You can check this by the coupling clamp bolt and seeing if it is below the auxiliary drive shaft or by checking that the valves on No. 4 cylinder ar...
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:36 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Super np steering
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6267
Re: Super np steering
This problem has been going on for many years and still the aftermarket people refuse to listen when people complain. There are two types of Fordson Major, the E27N from 1945 to 1951 and the E1A type from 1951 to 1964. The front axles were mainly a fixed version on the early E27N's and adjustable on...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:14 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: News from Down Under
- Replies: 15
- Views: 24205
Re: News from Down Under
Hope to get caught up a bit in the next few days, We have been in the Grampians searching for and photographing wild orchids and other flowers, things are absolutely stunning over here this time. We moved down to Mount Gambia last weekend and the roads for all the trip were lined on both sides with ...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:54 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Mysterious spring
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4168
Re: Mysterious spring
Did you check the spring on the end of the control valve?
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:53 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: My Super major doesn't seem to rev very high
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3504
Re: My Super major doesn't seem to rev very high
Check the air cleaner and hoses. Try taking the air cleaner hose off then carefully rev up and see what happens to the revs. If it revs OK you may have a blocked air cleaner wire filter up inside the air cleaner body.
- Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:46 am
- Forum: Fordson Dexta
- Topic: 1958 Dexta Restoration
- Replies: 128
- Views: 532680
Re: 1958 Dexta Restoration
Charlie, I brought pictures of your pump over with me to show a couple of members of the Fordson Club of Australia, Allan Cook, a good friend, immediately said he had been contacted by the owner of an early Dexta with a strange CAV pump like yours. We are trying to get further details and will put y...
- Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:39 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Tractor serial number begin and end with star
- Replies: 19
- Views: 19251
Re: Tractor serial number begin and end with star
There should be a casting code in the area of the dynamo. It will start 3, 4 or possibly 5 or 6 if it is indeed an Ebro engine built on the Super Major assembly line after it was shipped to Spain in mid 1965. As far as quality is concerned, Ford were happy to put their name on spare parts built by E...
- Fri Oct 06, 2017 1:11 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: News from Down Under
- Replies: 15
- Views: 24205
Re: News from Down Under
Finally surfaced from the Point Hicks lighthouse where we had no internet or phone and for a few days, no power!!! Generator packed up under warranty and none of the dealers would drive the 25 miles down an unmade road to fix it! Will post more pictures when we get a good connection and some spare t...
- Fri Oct 06, 2017 1:05 am
- Forum: Fordson Dexta
- Topic: Big starter problem
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7564
Re: Big starter problem
Sounds like the solenoid if the starter spins without pressing the lever down.
- Fri Oct 06, 2017 1:03 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Super major brake shaft
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7997
Re: Super major brake shaft
Just pull it, they come out easily usually or take out the ring of bolts that hold it to the axle housing and take the whole lot out. Nothing will fall off if you do one side at a time.
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:41 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous topics
- Topic: News from Down Under
- Replies: 15
- Views: 24205
Re: News from Down Under
Been out of internet range for the last day or so and when we managed to log in it is worse than dial-up. Will post more picture when we get a better connection. Yesterday we visited Wagga-Wagga the home of the Howard family of rotovator fame. We checked out the exhibits in the museum but most are i...