Early Massey Ferguson 135 Tractors

Christian from Sweden has just purchased the 135 Restoration DVD and is just about to start the restoration of his tractor.  Christian’s tractor is a 1966 model and wants to know what the tractors looked like from this early period and in particular the headlamp design.  Did the headlamp design change or was the style [...]

Setting Clutch On 3 Cylinder MF35

First of all thanks for your great emgine rebuild dvd, although I have the 3 cylinder version, it is still a great help!
I have just finished rebuilding the main part of the engine and am at the
stage of putting on the dual clutch, but am having problems working out the correct spacers required to set [...]

TE 20 Condensation In Hydraulic Oil

Just a couple of photos from the first day of filming we did for the Ferguson TE 20 Hydraulics DVD.  In this shot the lighting and camera were focused on the work bench as we dismantled the pump.

Now take a look at the colour of the transmission oil that came out.

The oil clearly hadn’t been [...]

TEF 20 Engine Not Repaired

Well it’s nearly 18 months since we bought a TEF 20 with a seized engine.  As soon as we got the tractor home we were eager to get started with stripping the engine and finding out where the problem was.  But the TEF is still sat in the corner of the shed, so why is [...]

Ferguson TE20 Website Resources

If there’s one model of tractor that’s written most about on the internet it is probably the Ferguson TE 20.  That’s not really surprising in itself, as there were well over 500,000 tractors manufactured between 1946 and 1956.
Vintage Tractor Engineer has decided to take a minute to put some of these resources on this page [...]