Chainsaw Repair
Chain - Grinders - Filing - Wood Milling - Tools - Welding - Machinist - Mowers - Tillers => Mowers Tillers Tractors etc => Topic started by: Cut4fun . on April 02, 2018, 07:22:17 am
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Rambling on what will surprise folks is how much power an old Farmall F-20 will take .They would take Chevy 454 and Ford 429-460 engines,souped to the gills and pull them in the super modified tractor pulls .That rear end was designed for about 20 HP and might have over 500 on it with big fat combine rice tires spinning at about 70 MPH .That amazed me .
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I haven't seen a small block Ford in an 8n either .My comment was about old Jeeps with V8 engines .
All this sounds good but often it doesn't work out so well .I don't care what it is you increase the power by 3 or 4 times something is going to fail .
I once saw what was left of an old Cletrac crawler somebody stuck a Ford 289 in to replace the 6 cylinder Continental flat head engine .They used the Ford three speed tranny locked in second gear .It tore the finals out of the crawler .What was left was 5 tons of scrap cast iron .
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Dad had a 8N when we first started cleaning up the land we all bought back in early 90's. Pic has to be around 96.
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I have seen pictures of 8n's with the ford flat head v-8 but never a 289 or 302.
I still have a 8n that I use all the time.
Looks like a old manure spreader hooked up to the Ford.
Good eye. It is a 1937 John Deere manure spreader. I use it for something to look at.
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I have seen pictures of 8n's with the ford flat head v-8 but never a 289 or 302.
I still have a 8n that I use all the time.
Looks like a old manure spreader hooked up to the Ford.
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Looks alot like the area where my son took a job up north about 1hr 20mins away. He is looking for land etc now.
Flat as far as the eye can see. Least Roger has that mountain range in one direction..
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That's a great picture. Makes me lonesome for my old Saskatchewan prairie farm with endless sky.
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I have seen pictures of 8n's with the ford flat head v-8 but never a 289 or 302.
I still have a 8n that I use all the time.
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It might sound good but with reservations .I know of one conversion where they used an Opal 4 cylinder to replace the Ford tractor engine which was around 70 HP .Keep in mind the Ford 4 banger was around 24-25 HP .It had a tendency to break axles .With a Ford flathead V8 were talking about 90-100 HP .They wouldn't pull any more they just could do it faster .
It's kind of like a small block Chevy or a Ford 302 in a CJ5 Jeep .It won't go any faster and it would break axles also .They would climb the hills in a higher gear but they drank about 3 times the gasoline of the original 65 HP 4 banger .
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I think I read that the Funk brothers offered a kit to swap over to the ford flathead 8, gave more power in the field and was cheaper than a bigger tractor.
I used to have an 8N and a 9N, very popular tractor at one time, I didn't like niether one, I bought a 5050 Allis, much better
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There was a company that took 8n Fords and either put an in line Ford 6 or an 8Ba Ford V8 in them .If they didn't use a governer those things would run 50-60 miles hour .Funk aircraft,Coffeyville Kansas .
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Was a tractor show sat.
Have more pics of stockers.
But this one caught my eye.