🚜 1963 Fordson Super Major fuel filter change 🚜

I had been blowing a lot of black smoke, of late, mainly because I had used old heating fuel in the tractor. Although it's pretty much the same red diesel it has a slightly different combustion rate and it tends to clog up the filter.
having a check today, the filter was still new and clean, so I put an injector cleaner additive in the tank and topped up with agricultural diesel. started and runs great now.

[@clark9530]

Nice .... oooh yaaahhh 👌

[@petersmith4455]

hi, you should attend to the air cleaner as well !

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

Absolutely 👍🏻

[@TheCuriousBunny]

Hey buddy 😎👍🐰💙

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

Hello Penny, welcome to the madhouse! 👍🏻👋🏻🤗

[@mcjdubpower]

Nyyyccceee 😉.

[@busterbrooktalk6538]

My parents used to have petrol/TVO Major and then a Diesel Major (and before that a Standard Fordson I never drove)and I started driving as a kid on motor cycles and then the tractors.

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

I have a petrol/TVO TE20, I have never seen a Major in this configuration I will search now for a look it interests me 👍🏻I bet that was a good experience to be around all those superb tractors. I got into tractors as I couldn't afford a steam traction engine !!

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

@@Al-vb6js I'm wondering if a lot of these petrol models were exported. I know three variants were made.

[@clark9530]

Did you manage to stop the black smoke as the filter didn’t need changing?

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

Yes, I put a cleaner in the fuel, to blow through the injectors. It runs great now.

[@mcjdubpower]

Gud vid.

[@batch6792]

I'm no good at mechanics - but do share your enjoyment of the smell of derv. I like other petro-chem fuels smell too. I guess it's the pyromaniac in me. 😀👍🍀😝🔥 'Me Julie's' dad had a tractor in the barn next to his big red Massey-Ferguson that was the same colour blue as your one. There was also an old light grey tractor (years old) in the stables yard. I'm sure the grey one was an old Massey-Ferguson & blue tractor was Fordson. I know they were worth a lot of money.

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

That Grey tractor is probably a TE20 Ferguson.

[@robindavies2204]

You should not use heating oil as it dose not lubricate well enough

[@freelyfarmexploits8854]

Waste not want not, I reuse and recycle everything. I decommissioned a heating system and had to drain the mazout tank, mixed with diesel it does no harm at all, this tractor starts and runs perfectly, you saw the filter its as new, this fordson doesn't even blow smoke.