Very generous gesture by QTP supplying these parts 👍 it's a company I had forgotten about to be honest they don't seem to advertise as much as some other parts suppliers 🤔 actually thought the tractor sounded really well when you took it for a spin 👍 good video 👌
Great to see the old girl fitted with some new gear Dan, very decent of them guys to send you the bits and pieces, also very interesting to watch you fitting them Dan, you know you're stuff around these old masseys, 👍
This tractor has had the 1970’s HSE upgrade kit comprising of footboard extension plus a vertical shield to mate with the bottom front of the mudguards, plus remnants of the old dynamo belt pulley guard. A fixed PTO guard was probably part of the kit as well, but may have been factory fitted to 35X.
We have a 1963 35x that is very far from pristine condition but seems to be very original. Even the electrics seem to be the originals. The dynamo has needed the brushes freeing up and the com polished up a few times (every 6 or 7 years I reckon) and the starter solenoid has needed cleaning up this year (how it had been working up to that point I don't know such was the mess inside) the contacts are about half way eroded so maybe only 30 years more service left in them. Now the starter is getting its full feed the starting is very prompt. Worth checking if the solenoid terminals are getting warm when cranking. Once sorted they stay stone cold.
When I was a young lad, many years ago, I worked for F H Burgess. 1981 we were moving depot and I was given the job of emptying the stores cellar (new old stock Massey Ferguson parts) into a skip. It was sacrilege as I had a 35X at home in need of some TLC. Yes, the parts were all dumped
Hi dan always love your channel! I see it's The old case of new parts not fitting right, and having to modify, which we shouldn't have to do! I would have got the old clock repaired, to keep originality, as it's lost it's history of running hours, and the the new one's don't look the same! I try and source original parts as much as possible, for the reason of not fitting right and the look!
Trouble is with lots to fix how mutch do you spend on a single item, I can't imagine getting a tacho restored is cheap. The reproduction one looks a fairly close match, I'm fairly picky and it wouldn't upset me.
@@paulf2529 Well yeah i can appreciate that, but it's kind of same with needing a recon pump or injectors, it's expensive! the new guages and a lot of spares now are made for a number of makes of tractors, and not individual to one make, and don't often fit! I fitted some wing skins to my te20 years ago, they are not made the same shape as original, they don't have enough over hang over top bracket, and pulling them up against brackets distort wings, have seen the same on other fergys too! the alu thermostat housings are shallower than the old one's too, i really don't know why in the 21st century we can't reproduce the same copies, to fit right! but yeah i guess the guages are not bad, just can tell straight away not original as they don't put made in england or type of tractor on dial, but again this will be because they make a gauge to fit many other makes to make it easier for manufacturers!
Don`t forget to cut down the silencer to match the original length before you put the tractor back in it`s shed or you will be needing a new exhaust manifold next !
Yes, it's definitely a 35X. Multi Power was an option on later versions but was never a standard fitment. This one is too old to have Multi Power fitted.
It would be highly unusual for the clock to sieze. What I would have done is file a nail square so it fits in the back of the clock and turn it with a finger and thumb firstly, then with a cordless drill. The original would look much better than the replacement.
