Rob has kindly sent in this video of his tractor running for the first time after doing a rebuild on the engine. Here is what Rob had to say.
Hi Steve/Ian
I would just like to say a big thank you for making the 23c rebuild dvd. I went out on tuesday nice warm day bled the […]
We get a lot of people asking for the fluid capacities of these tractors, so here they are…
Engine Sump 6.8 litres
Air Cleaner 0.45 litres
Cooling System
TE-A/D20 8.5 litres
TE-H20 9.6 litres
TE-F20 8.5 litres
Transmission Casing 22.8 litres
Belt Pulley 0.28 litres
Fuel Tank
TE-A20 36 litres
TE-D/H20 31.5 litres and 4.5 litres
TE F20 31.85 litres, auxiliary 3.4 litres, Kigass 0.43 litres
Steering […]
People keep asking us when we are going to make a DVD for the Perkins A3.152 engine. We promised it a long time ago, and now we’ve actually got started on the project. The first stage of filming is complete and so here’s a quick two minute taster of why this engine was […]
We often get emails and photos from customers who have restored their tractors (and it’s great to see how people have got on).
Andrew (who incidently has a quaint little holliday cottage in Whitby) has sent us a video of his grey and red FE35 starting up from cold in winter time…
Andrew thought the video may […]
Andrew asks…
Hi,
Having completed a full strip down and rebuild of the engine according to the dvd I have now bought the Hydraulics dvd and am about to start looking at that end of the tractor.
I noticed that Ian mentions using multigrade oil in the gearbox/hydraulics. Having Googled this and looking at a few forums […]
Vintage Tractor Engineer always likes to hear from MF35 owners from across the world who kindly send in photographs of their tractors, especially when we get the serial number. This helps build a catalogue of tractors that we can use to compare against our own machines – particulary helpfull when trying to do an authentic […]
Lau from Denmark has done a complete engine rebuild of the 23C engine in his Massey Ferguson 35. However, he is having some problems and has written in to see what could be the trouble. He says…
Hi VTE.
I have followed the whole rebuild process acording to the fantastic DVD I bought (I also bought […]
In the UK we’ve had two consecutive cold winters and the frost has blown core plugs from some engines which haven’t either been drained of coolant or had sufficient antifreeze concentrations. Owners who have had blown core plugs are lucky that this fail-safe has worked – they could have been dealing with a more serious […]
