The Friends of Ferguson Heritage Ltd. - Tractor Age Determination
If you are taking advantage of the help offered by Chris Massingham in getting your tractor registered, you will need to date your tractor. Here, Chris shows some ways of tractor dating.
email the FoFH Registration service
Grey Ferguson
The serial number should be on a small plate just forward of the steering wheel.
When the serial number plate is missing look just in front of the dip stick on the hydraulic/transmission housing. There you should find a vertical number something like ‘12-8-9’. This gives you the day/month/year of manufacture of that casting. You might find similar numbers just forward of the steering drop arm and above the dynamo. If it is a 6 volt tractor there is a year date on dynamo / distributor
/ and starter motor if they are original. |
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MF 35/65/135
The serial plate should be on the bottom of the dash board to the right on this range of tractors.
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There is a date code in front of the transmission housing dip stick (response lever on 135) and again in front of the steering drop arm.
I should be able to date your tractor to the year it was built from these codes. I need to be told where they were found. On a few early tractors there was a date on the front end of the engine sump. |
