Videos with mistakes
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 9:30 pm
Just found these and thought they needed a bit of sorting out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syz4hmb ... tageRoamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htcmf6p ... tageRoamer
The Dexta one is not too bad but not good, the Major one has bigger issues. My main issue with the Dexta one is a complete missunderstanding of the way the Super Dexta was introduced, as well as the NP tractors. Several details on parts are also wrong.
As the Major one also has a part on the E27N I'll go through it too. The petrol engine was basically only in the industrial model, and the engine was inherited from the N, not a later design and 267 cu in. Diesel was only anoption, and only the P6, others were not factory jobs. And he has far too many of them being made.
Then we come to the Major, he launches it too late, and no it's not a complete redesign. many major parts are unchanged from previous models, the biggest exception being the engine, many more parts might not be unchanged but are very similar.One of the worst he says is a rubber mounted engine. Absolutely not, vibrations are only low because of brilliant design work by Ford in the engine, no more. No Major can do 16 mph, only Dexta's before 957E-63953 and Super Dexta's. No special colours were ever available, these were painted over (mostly industrials) std colours. He errouneously says the Power Major has a bored out engine, not true, and misses the Mk2 all together. The only change to the hydraulics was a new unloading valve, hardly a big improvement. The clutch he messes up with too, live clutches came in ages before Power Major's, and the 13" clutch is rare in them because it came in quite late. Then he gets Super Major engine changes wrong again, gets the dash layout far too late, and talks of 6V electrics, something never used since the E27N! Still doesn't get that live clutches were never std., however many were actually sold. Then gets the NP totallly wrong too, with wrong engine changes, dash changes that never occurred and a completely wrong understanding of the transmission and PTO changes. At least he gets the production roughly right, but without counting Ebro or lorries and industrial engines, which make up a subtantial figure of the absolute total.
I wish people wouldn't do things like this unless they have all the information needed, particularly if they say it's a guide or something like that. As you can see I'm not impressed with these.
Sandy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syz4hmb ... tageRoamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htcmf6p ... tageRoamer
The Dexta one is not too bad but not good, the Major one has bigger issues. My main issue with the Dexta one is a complete missunderstanding of the way the Super Dexta was introduced, as well as the NP tractors. Several details on parts are also wrong.
As the Major one also has a part on the E27N I'll go through it too. The petrol engine was basically only in the industrial model, and the engine was inherited from the N, not a later design and 267 cu in. Diesel was only anoption, and only the P6, others were not factory jobs. And he has far too many of them being made.
Then we come to the Major, he launches it too late, and no it's not a complete redesign. many major parts are unchanged from previous models, the biggest exception being the engine, many more parts might not be unchanged but are very similar.One of the worst he says is a rubber mounted engine. Absolutely not, vibrations are only low because of brilliant design work by Ford in the engine, no more. No Major can do 16 mph, only Dexta's before 957E-63953 and Super Dexta's. No special colours were ever available, these were painted over (mostly industrials) std colours. He errouneously says the Power Major has a bored out engine, not true, and misses the Mk2 all together. The only change to the hydraulics was a new unloading valve, hardly a big improvement. The clutch he messes up with too, live clutches came in ages before Power Major's, and the 13" clutch is rare in them because it came in quite late. Then he gets Super Major engine changes wrong again, gets the dash layout far too late, and talks of 6V electrics, something never used since the E27N! Still doesn't get that live clutches were never std., however many were actually sold. Then gets the NP totallly wrong too, with wrong engine changes, dash changes that never occurred and a completely wrong understanding of the transmission and PTO changes. At least he gets the production roughly right, but without counting Ebro or lorries and industrial engines, which make up a subtantial figure of the absolute total.
I wish people wouldn't do things like this unless they have all the information needed, particularly if they say it's a guide or something like that. As you can see I'm not impressed with these.
Sandy