I had an 1855 tractor what to change oil one day there was antifreeze first come out about a half a cup couldn’t find out where it was at put a drain petcock drill the oil plug out put a drain petcock in the oil drain and every morning before I drove it I would turn that petcock run the antifreeze out to come shut her down. I run it over six years that way they claim it was a cold somehow. Thank you.
I like your presentation style. Relaxed, informal, and problem solving on the fly. BTW I don't trust people that never swear but I'm not a fan of people who talk like 20 YO rig pigs either. You found a pleasant balance. Keep getting it done without a bigger hammer!
I just stumbled across this channel and had to sub. There's a farm by me that has old bigger Massey's like you have and I always thought they look so cool. Appreciate the content.
Great video and it’s good to see someone that knows what they are doing. I love this tractor’s sound, but I am jealous I don’t have enough land to turn it around. Be safe and can’t wait for the next video.
We i had a 1155 in the 70-80t’s one off three in the erea Ours went into our local dealer for a modification which was the fitting off a heavy duty coupling i think it was the same one as u r doing Wish we never sold it North west england uk You videos are very good keep em coming 👍👍👍
Wow! I think your doing amazing job, cabs always makes it difficult to work on. Someone who previously owned it probably ran a brush hog behind it and hit a well head or stump. I'm willing to bet there's a split in one of the head gaskets. Water from rain got in the exhaust and when someone started it pow. That happened to my dad's 65 only he did it but he got lucky it didn't damage the head gasket
Massy Fergusons did not come energized from the factory. When they showed up at the dealers in Iowa anyway. The dealers had to put batteries, coolant, fuel, hydraulic and engine fluids in. We took delivery of a 1155 in the fall of 1973. Dealer fired it up. Hydraulic oil ran out of the belly. It got took apart to find part of the rear oil pump missing. Put it back together and chopping stocks with it and a internal PTO bearing failed with 40 hours on it. Taken apart for the second time. There was like a 23 step flow chart to check each part of the hydraulics. Quality control was so bad that tractors got out of the factory with left and right tires not being the same size. MF 1100 was a simple tractor. The 1155 was a very busy hydraulic system. We had much better luck with a MF 1085. I loved that Perkins 4 cylinder engine..
Check for pin holes in cylinder liners below ring travel area. We had a Cummins 555v8 same thing . A pinhole let antifreeze into oil none in combustion chamber etc . Drove us crazy took heads off twice . We pulled oil pan off filled cooling system pressurized it and behold antifreeze dripped out on floor. Block heater ate holes electrolysis. I had same coupler on my MF 165. Is designed to fail instead of shafts .
Seen that same pto coupler failure on a 1100 with high hours. Like close to 10,000 hours. Another serious flaw. If park pawl spring breaks. Pawl can fall into park position. If engage gear shift probably low range. Seen a 1130 with a busted differential housing.
Good video...👍. A couple of good resources for info/troubleshooting the 05 series Massey’s are the Machinery section on Agtalk and Rudolph Brothers Implement in Rockport IN. I notice the MF logo on the grill is red, I’m guessing the tractor is 1976 - 1978 vintage? My 1105 has that red logo and is a 1977. MF was at their zenith with the 05 series tractors - a great piece of engineering IMHO.
I had one. Good on fuel but only one really bad weakness. The PTO. The PTO bearing is no lubricated properly and it will eventually fail after about every 1200 hours
Have you ever had any issues with the multipower? I have an 1105 and the connection from the top of the transmission to the multipower lever in the cab leaks and when multipower is on. Were unsure if the connection is factory or a homemade jobbie from a previous owner. Massey dealer down here is very little help. Would love to see a video of where yours connects. Should be right to the left of where the fluid is added to transmission. Thanks. Your videos are awesome
I appreciate it! I’ve not had any issues with mine leaking. I seldom use it to be honest, I had to flip it into high last week just to be sure it still worked 😆
My family ran a MF dealership for almost 50 years... have worked on many 1100 series tractors... The perkins engines are great engines... Check your oil cooler... have seen several leak after heat cool cycles... hardly ever had head gasket issues with the big v8... bet you a coke its the oil cooler though... several o rings inside the unit get old and brittle...
Hello, this is a little off the subject but my neighbor has an 1155 he says that the multi-power is weak. How big of a job is it to replace it? Thanks Scott
Not yet. I went over that in the beginning of the video, how I pressure tested, pulled injectors and the oil cooler and nothing. It holds pressure, the oil cooler wasn’t leaking, even ran it for an hour and it didn’t leak a bit. I’ll have to run it hard to see what comes of it.
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 I loved the upload sir. I had a bike that lost coolant when the temp dropped below certain point. What a beast of a machine. Cant wait till episode 3. Cheers sir.
So many farmers today play the government right off game on taxes. Old tractors will still till the soil. Invest in a high tech tractor, planter & combine.
The big problem is for guys like us, we've still got to earn the money on the land to pay for that fancy stuff, and fix it when the computer or emissions system dies. Without anything else going wrong you can't touch on it without a computer to "reset" it. Dealer rates on that can be 150 an hour plus here in Canada. I work self employed on older stuff guys run for $50 and family farm 200 acres helping my dad who's supposed to be retired. some of the machines are on farms with new Machines, where they run old stuff for certain jobs. I was on a farm where 1 of his 690 Deere combines started running rough, the motor died in it 2 days before the end of corn this year. Luckily he has another machine they don't run at the same time with corn, they can't truck from 2 combines fast enough so he could swap the header/concaves and carried on. I talked to his assistant manager today that machines looking at a 30K plus repair, before next harvest if they don't take the bigger hit trading it as is. They spent 30K on other stuff when they bought it used a year ago. Chances are guys like us don't have 30 k in all our machinery and fix it ourselves, with cheap used or jobber non oem parts. I priced rebuilding a fire damaged newer Deere combine over the winter for a profit selling it next year, the fuel tank was $19000 without the 65k the machine made and other parts, it wasn't worth doing even with labor 2 /3rds less than Deere ! We probably make just as much money per acre farmed as a guy with huge acres and financed to the nuts with a huge amount of borrowed money, unless they inherited paid for family land. I know several in this area with big acres didn't get finance for crop inputs in the last few years and got forced to quit. Or realized the math and walked away from rented or mortgaged extra land before they lost everything, with a wet year and poor yields.
