Vintage Tractor Engineer

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 [...]

Making the settings on the lever springs for the Massey Ferguson 35 hydraulic system is quite a fiddly job, and the method is shown in detail on the MF35 Hydraulics DVD.  However, we just thought that a written description of the process may also help.
So here it is…

Loosen retainer nut and eccentric cam.
Make sure quadrant [...]

This tractor belongs to Jeff in Canada.  Jeff wants to know what exactly he has? Ferguson or a Massey Ferguson?

Read what Jeff says about his tractor and take a look at the photos…
Hi,
I have a Ferguson / Massey ferguson 35. I dont know the year and I have been trying to figure out if [...]