flusher
Super Member
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2005
- Messages
- 7,538
- Location
- Sacramento
- Tractor
- Getting old. Sold the ranch. Sold the tractors. Moved back to the city.
I bought an MF-135 diesel deluxe with Multipower and power steering a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the tractor serial number is missing so the exact year of manufacture is presently unknown.
The seller said that it came with a generator and that later his Dad installed a replacement alternator. The MF parts manual for the 135 indicates that the alternator became standard equipment in the 1968 model year and that generators were no longer OEM parts. 135s were built from 1964-75, so mine was built in the 1964-67 period.
My tractor has the MF red paint on the sheet metal parts and the MF silver color (probably "silver mist grey") on the cast iron parts (engine block, tranny and hydraulics cases) and on the wheel rims.
I notice another color scheme on eBay where a lot of the 135s that are prettied up for sale there have the MF gray paint on the cast iron parts and the MF red on the sheet metal.
Question: is the paint scheme a way to pin down the year of manufacture?
The seller said that it came with a generator and that later his Dad installed a replacement alternator. The MF parts manual for the 135 indicates that the alternator became standard equipment in the 1968 model year and that generators were no longer OEM parts. 135s were built from 1964-75, so mine was built in the 1964-67 period.
My tractor has the MF red paint on the sheet metal parts and the MF silver color (probably "silver mist grey") on the cast iron parts (engine block, tranny and hydraulics cases) and on the wheel rims.
I notice another color scheme on eBay where a lot of the 135s that are prettied up for sale there have the MF gray paint on the cast iron parts and the MF red on the sheet metal.
Question: is the paint scheme a way to pin down the year of manufacture?