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Does anyone here have any experiences with one of those? I am specifically wondering about the clockwise one for power and super major? Mine's broken beyond repair(as are the other three old ones I got my hands on), for the price it carries it looks a steal so it would be nice to know if there are anything to worry about before getting one...

The best ones that I know come from a company called Speedograph-Richfield. These people will rebuild your tacho to the original specification. They are the company that was originally Smiths.

The Agrline ones may come from them but it would be worth googling them and asking. I am having Dottys one serviced by Speedograph, I bought brake cables for Henrietta from them and was very pleased.

I have had good luck so far with the one on my Power Major, which did come from Agriline. But then again, it only has less than 50 hours on it. The Power Major Tach turns opposite of the Super. My needle rests to the left when the tractor is off. The Supers rest to the right. If this is for your Super, you will need an anti clock wise rotation meter which is down the list a little farther. Dandy Dave!

Dandy Dave wrote:I have had good luck so far with the one on my Power Major, which did come from Agriline. But then again, it only has less than 50 hours on it. The Power Major Tach turns opposite of the Super. My needle rests to the left when the tractor is off. The Supers rest to the right. If this is for your Super, you will need an anti clock wise rotation meter which is down the list a little farther. Dandy Dave!

The Super Majors came with both the clockwise and the counterclockwise tachs...

Clockwise = the first ones with vacuum-regulator
Counterclockwise = the ones with the Minimec pump

Mine's the "old" one with vacuum regulated pump and angular drive off the timing cover...

But thanks for the reply about them "working out of the box", that means I will probably be happy with mine... And since I live in Sweden I really can't ship off one old tachometer to england, have it serviced and then sent back... There are firms that fix that here in sweden as well but they are quite more expensive than a new one from Agriline, so Agriline it is then...

Ey ey Captian. I just learned something new. Now if I can only remember it??? Dandy Dave!

Dandy Dave wrote:Ey ey Captian. I just learned something new. Now if I can only remember it??? Dandy Dave!

Hehe, a good day is a day you've learned something new
Bookmark this thread and you can always go back and refresh yourself a bit Sorry if I sounded a bit "besserwisser"-ish, I didn't mean it that way...

The Fordson Major Diesel (approx 1958) did not have a tacho ?
Regards
Tjibbe

Tjibbe wrote:The Fordson Major Diesel (approx 1958) did not have a tacho ?
Regards
Tjibbe

One could be fitted to it, there's a bracket and a tachometer on agriline's homepage, check in front of the injection pump if you have a small angular drive unit sticking up from the flat surface just behind the timing cover, if there's a screw on lid instead then you can buy the tachometer, bracket, angle drive and the tach cable and add one, if there is a drive unit you'll need to know if it's an AC or smiths unit(then buy bracket, tach and the appropriate cable)

Thanks Foxen ;
I see there is a lid screwed on. So one has the option.
Regards
Tjibbe

Tjibbe,

You would also need a bended throttle lever.

Allright, today I fitted the Agriline clockwise tachometer on my FSM and it worked nicely, the tales about it fouling the fuel tank is true though, as one of the threaded rods for the mounting bracket will hit the top of the fuel tank, I rectified this by simply grinding off approx 1.2cm of it with one of those cheap dremel copies... Not sure if the illumination lamp holder would foul the fuel tank aswell as I modified that one for two ultra bright white LED's instead...