64 Ford 2000

[lennyzx11]

I saw an old Ford tractor in the back of a shop a couple of weeks ago when I was buying a welder that had been advertised.
I told the lady I was interested if she would sell it. And got the I’ll think about it line.
Fast forward till now and I called her and said I was interested still.
700 bucks and it’s yours.
Loaded the trailer and beat it back over there and loaded it with a winch and ramps.

And then.
Dead battery. Hooked up jumper cable to battery with 12 volt but low battery.
No spark. Opened distributor and cleaned points, cleaned corroded coil wire end. Got blue spark.
Started on starting fluid.
No fuel though sediment bowl was full. Pulled carb and removed bowl. Found main jet needle stuck closed. Freed needle. And now have fuel.

Started right up! Checked voltage and is charging on the 6 volt system.

Then I did what all of you would do. Backed it off the trailer and went for a tractor ride!

 

[Roadworthy]

Congratulations of a very lucky find!!

 

[goeduck]

Excellent find! Good job! What is on the front of it or am I looking at something else up there?

 

[stuckmotor]

700 bucks well spent!

 

[lennyzx11]

Excellent find! Good job! What is on the front of it or am I looking at something else up there?

That’s the winch I use on the trailer for helping me load “treasures”.

 

[kuschneider]

Outstanding!

 

[Shaneard]

How do you sleep at night :laughing:

 

[Michford]

Nice find for the price! Basically you bought a power steering system, and got a tractor thrown in for free.

 

[goeduck]

Were you wearing a mask?

 

[lennyzx11]

That’s what I was thinking.
Yesterday after checking all the fluids I put a rotary cutter on it and mowed about 2 acres of knee high grass. Never missed a lick.
I am tickled to death. I usually end up on the wrong end of deals like this.

 

[mike48130]

Looks like it is in pretty good shape over all. Good find.

 

[lennyzx11]

I’m having trouble getting the 6 volt battery from 2015 to take a charge with my “smart” charger. I wished I had a regular old style charger still.

I’m hoping to keep hitting it with the generator (it is polarized and charging correctly) it may come back to life.

So I’m torn between buying a 6 volt battery or going ahead and converting to 12 volt. The generator is working fine, the lites are inop, and the only gage that works is the temp gage.

On another funny note, I’ve been a mechanic full and part time since high school and I am 55. And tools are pretty organized.
It took me an hour to find a set of feeler gauges to set the points! Been that long since I needed them. And I don’t know if I still even own a timing light!

 

[lennyzx11]

8 months later and tractor is running fine. I do have to turn the gas off under the tank or it will leak out when sitting. So I keep a screwdriver wedged in beside the tach cable for this.
While I was turning the gas on today, I saw something I’d never noticed before. A little box behind the right side floorboard.

A tool box! And with tools.

The tractor came with its own screwdriver and crescent wrench and I had never saw it.
Why it’s only been here 8 months...

 

[lennyzx11]

The post disappeared but I wa starting to show I picked up a remote kit from Steiner Tractor and installed it.
Easy one hour upgrade.

 

[shovelmike]

What a great deal! I like that series Ford tractors a lot. I was born in'52 and my father was working for the company a few years prior to that, I grew up around those old machines...no plastic there. I worked for the division until they sold out, finished up helping build F150's.
I have retained the 6v system on my old TO 35, even though it would be an easy conversion with later models being 12v, if in good tune it should work fine. The deciding factor will be if, at some point, I have to pay a huge premium to get a 6v battery.
I was looking for my feeler guage the other day myself, I'll have to brush the cobwebs off them when I find them.
On anything with gravity fed fuel system the fuel valve should always be shut off when parked just in case the needle valve or float malfunctions, dad and grandfather strictly enforced that rule

 

[lennyzx11]

I used the post hole digger yesterday and noticed something not quite right.
When I would go to raise the 3 point, it wouldn’t come up. Let the lever down then back up repeatedly and suddenly 3 point comes up to max suddenly. Can’t figure out a rhyme or reason of what to do making it repeatable.

Clutch in clutch out and halfway, lever up lever down, nothing seems to connect.
I made sure that the draft control is in position control and my new remote was in neutral on its spring detent.

Also after hanging the PhD on a rock, I heard the relief pressure working as I Tried to raise it every time and that noise was not happening when the problem occurs.
It seems as if the 3 point doesn’t get fed pressure. I’m going to look closely at the lever and linkage when I can get time.

 

[John0829]

I would say the cam follower pin i under the cover is worn out. Not unusual since it gets very little lube and it is soft metal. Easy to fix, just remove the top cover, drive out the old pin and drive in a new one. I always replace them with a piece of drill bit and have never had any issue even though some say it just causes the cam to wear but after many years and tractors I have not seen it yet.

Sometimes you can wiggle and hold side pressure (front, back, up and down) against the position control lever and can get the lift to work, sort of a test that sometimes works.