My winter project

Clips from my progress over the winter to the Fordson project. I bought the tractor cheap knowing it would need work, it is a great easy machine for me to learn how to do repair work I have never done or know nothing about mainly diesel injection systems, I also have never rebuilt a 3pt lift cyl, replaced a head gasket in a Diesel engine, I will be rebuilding the front axle and pivot bushings something I have never done, So this has been a lot of fun to date looking forward to finishing it up. So far I have replaced the seat, injectors, filters, oil, complete wiring harness, fuel pump and injection pump..

[@mareknosek996]

Thanks for the post. I have the same tractor and mine surges! Probably the governor. Will fix it soon enough.

[@SmallEngineMechanic]

Nice tractor! If you end up sending your yellow injection pump out for calibration definitely send the injectors with it so they can verify the cracking pressure.

[@1944johndeerel]

Thank you, tractor is a 1957 Fordson major made in England parts are so easy to get and inexpensive it's a pleasure to work on, I forgot to mention it in my video but I pulled all 4 injectors out rebuilt them all with new spray nozzles and copper washers, my friend who has an identical Fordson is a machinist so that's been helpful but he has a homemade rig set up for setting the blow off pressure on the injector nozzles and these we set to 2720psi as called for in the technical manual so the nozzles are all set just that pump is really bugging me even though there was thousands and thousands of these things sold world wide who around here will know how to calibrate a Simms injection pump out of a Fordson with a 220ci lol. Oh well I bought it as a project and I can't complain I love it

[@IHcubcadet]

Nice job man. Looks like you got her going good.

[@1944johndeerel]

Thank you it's still a work in progress but it might be a fully restored tractor someday the more I use it the more I like it

[@umajunkcollector]

1919 Fordson as seen on Green Acres. I'd like to have a 50s Ford tractor, a classic, and the only Ford that I'd want. Is your's the Edsel of tractors? I think that was another Ford son. Henry ii was this Ford son I guess. I'll admit, your Fordsonova... is pretty kewl. Don

[@1944johndeerel]

Back in the early days when Henry Ford started getting into the agricultural market he was not allowed to place his name Ford on his tractors due to a copyright placed on the name by another manufacture of tractors trying to capitalize on Henry Fords success so Henry ford named it Fordson short for Henry ford and son.

[@jameswright3798]

Nowt to do with calibration, it has a burst diphram in the back

[@MrBugsier5]

exact! (or a leaking line to the flappervalve.)

[@swagmanexplores7472]

That was my thoughts too. I have the same tractor