Floor mounted transmission cut out switch.....or diff lock pedal as anyone who knows about ford diggers calls it!😂 I suppose case don't know because they don't have one
I worked as a fitter at a Ford construction Machinery Dealers in the early 80’s and the 555 was a new model then, a big improvement on the 550. The 655 came out as I was leaving. The problem Ford had at that time was a lack of volume sales with a disappointing line up of plant, eg H42, H44, the 66 wheel loader and with the likes of the 13/6, 550 backhoe all slow and underpowered they were never going to set the world on fire.
Sold to Massey Ferguson once the Western worlds largest agricultural machinery manufacturer then lateral to present day it's a division of Caterpillar.
Being a retired plant fitter I worked on and serviced a lot of these Engines in all types of Machines. To be honest the Engines were rubbish, underpowered, prone to overheating with constant blue, black, white smoke and always bollocking oil out!. I don’t miss them.
yes good machines, learnt on a 580G when I was 10 yr old one with the turbo engine but then went onto the JCB 3cx and drove many in my plant operating days.
Aq no brasil sou mecanico trabalho com toda linha perk ate agora anova geraçao aq tenho um aberto 4 cilindro 1114 14 E montado na caterpila retro cescavadeira muito bom facio a montagem identico os antigos q equipava a caminhonet GM D20
my late father worked at perkins during the 70's. as a schoolboy i would see the hoards of workers leaving the gates after their shifts had ended. happy times and how i wish we as a country still had as strong a manufacturing base as we once did.
I saved up my money and bought a 416B Cat (serious junk, old Ford and Case way better). Sold the Cat bought a 410E Deere. Deere was amazing. My old dad and his freinds couldn't believe the work I did!
All this sounds great,the 6-354 was not a bad engine and the company I worked for run about 20 Seddon 16/4 flats but I don’t think any of them manage more than 150,000 miles before we had problems with them. Oil consumption was horrendous on the engines that were fitted with Chrome liners so we removed them and fitted cast iron ones. The previous vehicles we had were Ford BMC and Bedford and all of them did over 250,000 miles before any major problems. Without a doubt the best engines of the day was the Leyland 350/375 and 400 series of engines by a country mile. The V8 510 and 540 Perkins were nothing to write home about with their constant head gasket problems,in 16 toners they weren’t bad but in 24 ton six wheelers and tractor units they were UTTER CRAP. In tractors and fork trucks Perkins were great but for haulage applications they weren’t great.
Most unfortunate that under Cat they have lost the majority of their previous customer base from Maintou to MF, to be replaced by FPT, Deutz and AGCO-Power/Sisu and JCB engines. Where did they go wrong? They cheapened out with not installing dry liners for a start. Then they went heavy on EGR for their common rail engines where everyone else bar DPS went for simpler engines with compact cooling packs which fitted existing machinery, that used less fuel by using SCR/Adblue. Apart from Cat, I'm sure they must have lost half their volume sales to rivals over the last twelve years to 2021.
I love how the black guy that traveled to the Perkins plant with the white and Asian man - on the way back on the train - holds the door for the other two, to get aboard the train...almost 40 years ago now...not many 'ladies' working in that plant...and pretty much everybody is, well...'white'...Those 'sophisticated computers' are quite quaint now!! They remind me of the old 'IBM' 8088's with green monochrome monitors we used to use back in the day...and the TAPE DRIVE storage system! Wow...Just think: likely a modern 'thumbdrive' could hold the information in that lot! Thanks for whoever transferred this from VHS...excellent video!