Ford Select o Speed Tractor Sales Slide Show

[@DD-lr6ne]

I recently bought a derelict 4000 with a select o speed. The screen inside the transmission was absolutely packed with crap when I pulled it out. Took hours to clean it. The oil looked like milk. One cannot expect a transmission to operate if you never change the oil or clean the screen. Fortunately the transmission was in great shape and did not require a lot of work to restore. Haven't ran it yet, but getting close.

[@thegreenerthemeaner]

Hopefully it goes well. Most times that is what was wrong, lack of servicing. They were not easy to service the filter either.

[@42lookc]

Man, if it only really always worked as smoothly and reliably as that.

[@RustyCarnahan]

Yep. The beloved Jerk-O-Matic lol

[@jrblanke]

Dang, now I want a select-o-speed!

[@thegreenerthemeaner]

Seeelect-o-speed. We had a 981 growing up. The only thing I did not like was the coasting gears, 5th, 6th, and especially 9th. The ground drive was great for stationary PTO work like elevators and augers, places where you needed slower speeds but greater torque than engine idle speed could provide on 540. The rear axle arrangement on the row crop models did not handle weight and extra power very well.

[@frostythesnowdragon3170]

we have a ford 3000 select o speed but we’re currently having the selector put back on it.

[@Cyberknight189]

Ours has a lot of problems. first, its very old. 2 my Grandmother said that 4th and 10th gears don't work, instead of going right into those gears the engine slows down a lot and doesn't pick up any speed. And the connecting rod to connect a driveshaft to hook on doesn't work, it spins but as soon as you want to hook something onto it, it doesn't spin. And it doesn't have the power it used to have. It could pull big loads and stuff but now it can barely make it up a hill. But we use it for moving horse crap and lifting hay into our barn

[@frostythesnowdragon3170]

Phillip Grube what series is it ?

[@frostythesnowdragon3170]

Phillip Grube sounds like it’s time to get rid of it or split it from the clutch and switch the back half over to a standard shift

[@themonopolyguy4365]

Have my grandpas ford 4000 select o speed now. I always shut it off before I get off it it.

[@Cyberknight189]

same here, otherwise mine will try to start up again. scares me every single time when it tries and make this weird noise and then puffs out white smoke.

[@RustyCarnahan]

And to think, the Select-O-Speed Ford, and John Deere Power Shift were designed by the same man. I've operated both, and I can say the JD transmission is much simpler and far more refined.

[@frankr.1594]

Do you know a source that confirms that (an interview, an article ore a book) ? I'd would be very interesting because I discussed that with friends and nobody knew about.

[@RustyCarnahan]

@@frankr.1594 I believe the book "John Deere's Company" would shed light into the "who" aspect of this. The mechanical and technical side would have to be interpreted through parts books and service manuals. Now, I have access to Deere literature, however for Ford I do not. I would love to have some though, so I could do some comparing of my own.

[@frankr.1594]

@@RustyCarnahan Thank you, sir! That's an information no one can denie. You and another Ford expert helped me a lot, thanks again 😊! It should be "The big Ford tractor book" by Harold Brock, so he told me.

[@RustyCarnahan]

@@frankr.1594 I will be sure to try and track down that one

[@calvinjboschee]

Any of these still around?

[@ford9000puller]

Yeah there are still a lot of them. I have 20 of them myself. Use some of them on a daily basis with no issues.

[@donvoll2580]

Good day They were good when new, We had 3 neighbours that had SOS, they all got rid of them . Next door neighbour had 4000, 3cly., them inch pedal should have been call foot pedal. He was trying to hook to baler, too far back, too far front. We pulled baler to tractor. They had real good diesel motors. Transmission nothing. Thanks

[@zackvahlkamp5044]

Around here we call them a selecto-neutral.