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A great night in the garage.

The flywheel is on. Thanks Mark for the aligning tool it worked wonders. I added a new pilot bearing to the clutch before installing it. I have had to refit the old tab washers as I’ve had 2 other lost sent to me and they are wrong so I’ve made a not of the sizes they should be just in case. 

Flywheel in place

Correct Flywheel Tab Washer size

Clutch plates in place with the aid of Mark

Fitting the clutch moved the timing chain out on the front of the engine. I wanted to go over the settings from the manual again so it wasn’t to much hastle to reset everything.

Tractor Timing all setup

I’ve even made a Video of the engine turning over. It now turns much easier with the Flywheel in place.

Get a Video here of the engine turning by hand (23meg) .mov

Get a video here of the engine turning by hand (10meg) .m4v

Timing cover in the degreaser bath. It’s another aluminium part so I’ll take al the paint off the outside, heat it up and spray with Etch primer the same as I did for the sump. I want to get the cover on ASAP as I have a cable tie holding the chain tensioner in position.

I know people search this site looking for plough information. 
So here is a gem of a link for you. I have Nev to thank for this. Nev from the FoFH forum. He came across a link to a site which has on it lots of ferguson manuals. It seems to be an American site as most of the manuals are from the ford ferguson days.

http://www.ntractorclub.com/forums/manuals

There is one manual about the servicing of a ferguson mouldboard plough. It is listed page by page. I’ve stitched the pages together and saved them as a PDF document. It makes Fascinating reading. lots of terminology, problem solving setup. 

I’ve never seen a Ferguson manual like this. does one exist?

Download Manual Here

Tags: Manual, Plough

 I finally managed to get back into the garage. It’s been a week. The first think I did was the usual tidy up. I am a city boy so I don’t have a large barn but a small garage to keep my tractor in. You can see the lack of space. Still I’m happy I have a space out of the weather to work on the tractor.

My Garage

I’ve got what I think is the last delivery of parts I’ll need to get the tractor up and running. It includes Front axle pin and bearing, clutch pilot bearing, clutch thrust bearing and tab washers to hold the fly wheel on. I  got them from 

Geoff Mathews Engineering a local tractor parts supplier. They didn’t take to long to get and the price was reasonable.

Final Parts

I’ve had to clean up the clutch and fly wheel they where covered in oil. I’ve given them the usual bath in degreaser. I think the clutch assembly is new as it is carrying an MF part number.

Clutch in degreasing Bath

 I think the clutch plate has been recently added as there doesn’t look much wear on it. I’ve decided not to replace it. I think I can always replace it at a later date if need be.

Clutch plate pic 1

Clutch plate Pic 2

I’m still not sure about the timing still need to check it. I also need to do the decompression settings for cylinders 1,2 and 4.

 Hi Tim,   the tractor and Jim arrived home safely   going Holmesfield and Ringinglow   then Nether Green.  very small picture  if i make it to large it will not email.

I had this email from Gary about ferguson Implements and there manufacture. I added some information  but I wondered if anyone out there had anymore help for Gary? I also thought you might find it interesting and useful.

Tonight I added The Rocker to the top of the engine.

Rocker Added (click to enlarge)

 With the rocker added I set the gap between the valve and tappet of 0.012″

I then moved to the timing chain on the front of the engine. Where are you ROY. I could really do with some support on this one.  I know this is one of the trickiest things to get right with the rebuild. 

First was to add the shims back behind the cog on the crank shaft.

Shims behind Cog

The shims are added to make sure the cog is in line with the other two.

Three Cogs in place

I then tried the chain. I’m not sure if the cam is in the right place. I will have to re check it after reading the manual again. (The manual isn’t that helpful. It flits around from page to page so much)

Chain & tensioner in place

Here you see the chain tensioner in position.

Hi All, I have sent an email to Jim but not had a reply yet. I told him the tractor could be collected apart from the ign warning light stays on the rest is ok, with the engine running the battery voltage increases so appears to be charging, I did not get the light to go off with your dynamo so maybe the control box or wiring are at fault. I am a bit stuck with that problem now.

Had a run up and down the road all ok recorded it on the camera video, but to large to email.

Speak to you soon Roy.

Hi all , the arms are much easier to moveFree Arms