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I've got the chance of a perkins l4 think it's probably out of a old combine, would one of these fit into a major or is the bell housing different, are adapter plates available I thought there was a few majors at shows with a perkins engine, and someone said it was an old conversion they used to do cheers any info appreciated

From what I have seen/heard, this was a conversion kit available for the E27N.

I have yet to come across an E1A (or later) with an L4 in it, mind you, it could be possible...

Cheers - SR

The one I saw at a show had a perkins in, it didn't look like it had been done lately it had plenty of patina on it but it looked very tidy almost factory fitted , but there are a lot of good engineers out there I guess, so that's what made me think it might of been a conversion back in the day.

i have seen a perkins add in an old power farming offering conversion kits p6 l4 for several diffrent makes and models i know malcolm moore put them in the mk 1 for industral use because the e1a was weeker than the p6

My old company, Wrights, converted some petrol/kerosene E1A's to L4 back in the early 1950,s. Allan Condies' book on E1A's shows a picture of one that Perkins converted. That was a great old engine.

You would need an adapter plate.

The Perkins L4 engine was used as we have (friends of mine) two in E27Ns (this seems to be the most common) but also a Fordson Standard that was fitted by the owner I know.
As Brian states, an adaptor plate is required but shouldn't prove too difficult for a reliable engineering firm.