The Fordson Tractor Pages Forum

Hi David,

It is so good to see your E27N EB 6 at home. I am not too sure about the green colour, but I love the exhaust cover. I keep forgetting to take my spray paint can cap off when I start my tractor and it can be anywhere after it starts. Keep the great pictures coming.

Regards, Frank.

Hi Barry and Timo, The E1ADKN 3107/3108 spindle part numbers are some misinformation that came off the Sparex web site. I did not have my parts book at hand at the time and if I had I would have realised that the 3107/3108 numbers were refering to early E27N spindles E27N 3107/3108 that were superse...

Hi Timo, There are two sets of numbers for the front axles RH E1ADKN3105 or E1ADKN3107 and LH E1ADKN3106 or E1ADKN3108. I don't know what the difference is between the 3105 and 3107 and the 3106 and 3108 but I do know that the LH has to be an even number and the RH has to be an odd number. It looks ...

Hi Barry and Timo, Is it possible that one of your stub axles is an E27N part. I was lead to believe that E27N and E1A major front axle parts were interchangeable but Barry has made me think twice, the number on the end is the same for the left and right hand axles but the prefix is different. As Ba...

Hi Timo,

It might be an optical illusion but the single arm in your last picture looks bent to me. That would explain your problem completely.

Regards, Frank.

I have to agree the new tractor looks like a gimmick to get people who never really knew what a real tractor should be like to buy a new machine just because it reminds them of what they may have seen in the past that was a real tractor. Too much of this retro stuff is going on now, just look at the...

Hello David, It is great to have you here. Please feel free to post in both Spanish and English. That way if we can not understand the English we can at least take the time to try to understand the Spanish. It should not be all up to you to join us, we are all interested in tractors after all. I hav...

Hi Emiel, What I understand from David's email is that it was Frank Perkins who did not bother to patent his engine in Spain. He thought that Spain being so damaged by the civil war and in his opinion such a backward country would never be able to produce a diesel engine or injection pump, even thou...

Hi David, Is it my imagination or does that engine have a little more than a passing resemblence to a Perkins P6. Just things like the injector pump, injectors, cooling system feed to the head, combustion chamber covers starter etc. OK exhaust and intake manifolds are different but the rest looks da...

Hi Emiel, That looks like a great few minuites of work. I have a friend who lives close to a town called Horsham in Western Victoria Australia. His father who is well into his eighties always insists on sowing a few acres of wheet every year with his old E27N fordson P6. It is those small jobs that ...

Hi Henk,

I don't know about the other tractors, but the Model N brings back some wonderful memories. Thanks for the pictures.

Regards, Frank.

Hi Gerald, Don't give up on the old girl yet. My E27N P6 had a sad case of the hissy fits not long ago. She has a fully rebuilt motor and all new electrics and she took forever to start. lots of white smoke in puffs and spurts but no go. All because I didn't start her often enough. My advice is tow ...

Hi Miles,

I would stick to the 36/24 watt. If you want more light go for the Quartz Halogen replacements. Just remember most Majors only had 11 amp generators and 100 watts for a pair of 50 watt lights would draw at least 8 amps and leave very little left for anything else.

Regards, Frank.

Hi Keith, A word of warning, do not try coke to free aluminium pistons, leave it too long and there will be none left. Coke is great on early cast iron piston engines like the model F through to the E27N, both the peptic acid and sugar do wonders with rust but it will completely destroy aluminium pi...

Hello Miles, As I am not in your neck of the woods I can't recomend anybody close to you, but I found a place in England thats mainly for motorbikes that carrys a lot of vintage bulbs. Me being in Australia meant that I had to mail order as you would, and I was very happy with their service. Their w...

Hi Gerald,

Just a thought on the 11/16" size. Have you looked for a 5/8" x 1/8" wide. This would give some compression on the inside and stretch a little to give some compression on the outside. I am just working backwards from the outer diameter. 7/8" - 2 x 1/8" gives 5/8".

Regards, Frank.

Thanks Eric and Emiel, That clears up every thing. It also solves a puzzle that I had in my mind, why did the Irish in Cork paint their tractors Orange? Well the answer is that they didn't The tractors were Grey. I knew no self respecting Irish man would ever paint anything Orange. It also tells me ...

Hi Eric, Just trying to get the time line right. Model F earliest and manufactured in Detroit Michigan. Painted Grey. Later Model N manufactured in Cork Ireland. (Had a great argument with an Irishman in Dublin that swore that no tractor was ever produced in Ireland. The bet was a bottle of Whiskey ...

Hi Bob, The pipe fittings you have on your pipe should be the soldered on type fittings. If you get a decent soldering iron you will be able to remove them, clean them up and solder them onto a new length of coper pipe. I usually get my coper pipe from a Diesel repair shop that is not far from me, b...

Hi Steve,

My only answer to your story is "THAT YOU MANAGED TO GET A KL BULLDOG STARTED"! You Legend, way to go. ETC.

Regards, Frank.

Hi Pascal, My experience is that anything less than 13 mm thick round plates top and bottom and a full tube at the top is the minimum. When engines were new you could get away with the gear you have, but rust has it's way of making things much harder. A friend with a lathe to turn the top and bottom...

Hi Neil, You obviously know how to read a volt meter and an ammeter so I would sugest you download the Lucas Generator and Control Box Tests from the Sterling British Motoring Society. http://www.sterlingbritishmotoringsociety.org/files/Lucas_Generator_and_Control_Box_Tests.pdf They are easy to foll...

Hi Brian, I don't know about the rest of the world, but having worked with Ford motor company on the supplier side in Australia I can assure you that the person who signed off on the engine did not ever drive a tractor with that engine fitted to it. Well I suppose they could not sue their own engine...

Hi Steve, Just a comment about the Irish N with the external ignition coil. That was a fairly standard work around for the N and the E27N when the coil in the magneto or the magnets failed. You just take the magneto coil out and wire up the points connection and the HT wire and you are up and runnin...

Hi Dave, It was a case of she had lawyers and Shark settlement all coming down on her side and short of digging the hole in the back yard by hand. :evil: Well maybe she was wise to sell the doser. That was many years ago and my mate is happy now. He has an E27N with a Moore front end loader which so...