SCDolphin
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Is this a good old reliable tractor? It is a one owner gas.
Bob_Young
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Three cylinder or four cylinder?
The three cylinder 2000 is the newest. It was built for around 10 years starting in the mid 60's.
My 3-banger isn't running right now (long story), but was a good reliable machine when it was. Have owned it over 30 years. Plenty of power, not enough weight (should've filled the tires), limited gear selection, first gear was too fast for some jobs, old transmission type PTO that would let the implement drive the tractor, power steering would've been welcome.
Oh yeah, parts are still available through New Holland. A new carburetor cost over $450 five years ago.
Bob
The three cylinder 2000 is the newest. It was built for around 10 years starting in the mid 60's.
My 3-banger isn't running right now (long story), but was a good reliable machine when it was. Have owned it over 30 years. Plenty of power, not enough weight (should've filled the tires), limited gear selection, first gear was too fast for some jobs, old transmission type PTO that would let the implement drive the tractor, power steering would've been welcome.
Oh yeah, parts are still available through New Holland. A new carburetor cost over $450 five years ago.
Bob
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Thanks
Bully
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I have a '63 ford 200 industral, it has a 134 red tiger 4 cyl. very nice runner. If it has a FEL make sure it has power steering.
rambler
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Well, a replacement, rebuilt carb from Valu-bilt or so is less than 1/2 that, and a rebuild kit woulda been around $20 or so....
There are different tranny & pto options, depending on if you have the old style or the new style. Would need to know what exactly you are looking at. Unfortunately when Ford switched from the 100 series of tractors to the 1000 series of tractors, they mostly changed paint..... Then a few years later they redesigned the tractors, but didn't change the numbering system. So.......
In a gas model, either the older 4 banger or newer 3 banger are good, very reliable engines.
If it were diesel, the newer 3 banger was designed to be a diesel so would be better.
Anything of this era other than the SoS tranny (Ford version of a powershift or automatic wehich works great when it works; becomes a money pit when it doesn't) or the 4-banger diesel engine (works fine, but it was designed as a gasoline block, not as strong as it should be for diesel compression ratios....) is a pretty reliable, well thought of machine. Will come down to how that one was cared for.
--->Paul
There are different tranny & pto options, depending on if you have the old style or the new style. Would need to know what exactly you are looking at. Unfortunately when Ford switched from the 100 series of tractors to the 1000 series of tractors, they mostly changed paint..... Then a few years later they redesigned the tractors, but didn't change the numbering system. So.......
In a gas model, either the older 4 banger or newer 3 banger are good, very reliable engines.
If it were diesel, the newer 3 banger was designed to be a diesel so would be better.
Anything of this era other than the SoS tranny (Ford version of a powershift or automatic wehich works great when it works; becomes a money pit when it doesn't) or the 4-banger diesel engine (works fine, but it was designed as a gasoline block, not as strong as it should be for diesel compression ratios....) is a pretty reliable, well thought of machine. Will come down to how that one was cared for.
--->Paul