I’ve had a few issues needing attention on my little 165, so why not work on that today? It’s -5 F, so what better time to fire it up and get er in the barn. Maybe we’ll even have a little bonus fun at the end!
If you are happy living in that cold, well, that's great. We tried it in Colorado and after 6 years decided it wasn't for us. I can still hear my Dad when he and my Mom left Wisconsin. "Nine months of winter and 3 months of lousy sledding".
beauty job. There is nothing I've experienced that comes close to this tractor. The senseless beating this tractor since I've owned it would have broke anything else in 2. My rims rotted out and I just ordered new ones this week. Good timing to freshen up the old paint as well. Yours looks great. Thanks
Being the CAT lover that I am, I worry about Fluffy. Does he/she have a warm place to sleep? Does he get fed anything more than mice? He/she sure does love you. I hope you take good care of him/her.
Don’t know how you do it… I’m not a fan of the 🥶 cold, Fortunately I live in the south, So we are freezing when the temp drops below 45 degrees. Now the heat … 100-110, that is the stuff we have to complain about. Picked up me a nice old MF 165 a couple months ago, Have wanted a tractor for the past 25-30 years, finally bite the bullet and bought this used one. It’s got a few minor issues I need to work out, But I think with regular maintenance, it should take care of me for another 20-25 years… then I can gift it to maybe a future grand son.
🥶🥶🥶🥶, fired right up 👍🏻. Yep some of the engineers really went far on some of the designs . Might of been the hash they were smoking in college, or while they were designing the tractor itself.
Carb back together and on motor,but letting jb weld dry 24 hrs before I try to crank it . Has a filter inside carb housing that was stripped out before and that’s how they put back on so I decided to do the same . Anyway we’ll see soon . Thanks for asking
I’ve in the comfortable South where it’s “cold” when it gets to freezing and it’s comfortable when it’s 100*F with 85% humidity. Y’all can keep that slash before a number stuff. The long routing of the p/s hose may have been done to help aid fluid cooling especially if it doesn’t have a dedicated fluid cooler on it.
As scarce as hens teeth in my country, UK, to my knowledge all 165's were diesel. Got to ask, has this tractor got a dual clutch, i.e. separate clutch plate for PTO, the release pedal it totally different to ours over the pond, looking forward to your next episode on these repairs, that is if I can bloody find it...
Just a question.......we used to turn the key to the left on the masseys to H and hold it til you heard a thump for heat start...to warm up the glow plugs in the cold
Well, possibly. From what I can find, depending on how they worded it back in the day, there was a standard, a row crop and a hi crop. The standards all had the lower front spindles and 13.6-28 tires, the row crop has taller spindles and 13.6-38. This is that model, I have upgraded it to 15.5-38 two years ago when the 13.6’s wore out.
