Here’s the full build thread, fix the link as KZitem won’t allow outside links... www dot redpowermagazine dot com/forums/topic/144442-fordson-f-“project-x”/
@Truckerboy1234
Жыл бұрын
Detroit powered scrapmobile (with no muffler or exhaust whatsoever) and a whole bunch 'o' beers. We could all wish to be as happy as this guy.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
We all get to live a little once in a while friend.
@paulleblanc4653
Жыл бұрын
Worked on detroit diesel gen sets, the speed which they start would startle every stand-by observer, love your tractor.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. I was ships Engineer for years, we had three 12v149’s in the generator room. They were my babies and they made serious noise, then we’d load them all past the red 😎
@MrTheHillfolk
Жыл бұрын
I came in at the tail end of goodness in the late 90s as a gen tech. Boy I miss the response of a nice 2 stroker when ya whack it with full load. All the 4 stroke stuff now is disappointing as dpfs and emissions stuff is starting to creep in. There's still a few places around here in the 845 that have old Ma Bell Delco gennies. When Ma Bell was folded up in the early 80s ,they put out a word that fire departments could have the gen sets if they picked em up. So yeah, there's still a few places around that have em in service but I'm sure that's not gonna last forever. One of our town leaf collection trucks has a Detroit, it's an early 80s international.
@arnoldalt2571
Жыл бұрын
During WWII my Dad farmed in SW Wisc. New machinery was impossible to get, but he managed to get his hands on an old Fordson with a bad engine. We had a guy in our neighborhood that could build anything. Had it not been for "Tinker Weber" farming would have collapsed during those years. And it Wasn't long before my Dad's Fordson had a straight eight Buick engine in it. It had two fans due to how low the engine sat in the frame. It also had electric start, cigarette lighter, radio, and a bunch of power. Dad said it had worm drive in the differential that got very hot and would burn the inside of his legs after awhile.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
That’s a great story. I wonder if there are any pictures or if it’s even still around? I bet it got scrapped long ago though...? Would be a cool piece with lots of history.
@craigalston2208
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 which size Detroit Diesel engine did you use for your tractor and how did you make the transmission adapter plate ?
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
@@craigalston2208 6v53 Detroit and I’ve got a machine shop where I made all the adapters and driveline parts. There’s a full build thread over on red power magazine dot com. Fordson project “x” in the build/project forum area.
@craigalston2208
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 thanks . Interesting thing about the v6 engines is that they all have the same outside dimensions . But the internal parts ,oil pan and heads don't interchange . Must be nice to have your own machine shop . Finding a good shop in my area will cost 💰 lol .
@snydedon9636
Жыл бұрын
For some reason seeing this made me think of the song “hot rod Lincoln”.
@paulpaul5606
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love that. It as mad as a bucket of frogs. 🇬🇧
@shadgriffen2555
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful machine, FYI paint the alternator brownish rust!!!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! We’re thinking of putting a rusty tin can over it to look more like an old generator. Edit. The oil filter is shiny because we buffed the paint off so it rusts also. We’re down with the rusty look!
@davidhamilton7628
Жыл бұрын
That tractor is the perfect detection of VIOLENCE and I love it
@duginvirginia5737
Жыл бұрын
Again, I am so amazed at this great project and how great it came together along with supurb and professional fabircation skills that went into it.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! We had a great time putting it together. This tractor was in real bad shape and would have likely ended up as yard art otherwise. It sure gets some looks at shows now!
@christopherhampson265
Жыл бұрын
Blood sweat and beers can produce 👌 😎 amazing results . Excellent fun 👍 .Can you swap the cogs in the gearbox like in lawnmower racing ????? Reverse them so she'll blow your hat off when she's singing ?? Just a daught thought .....
@christopherhampson265
Жыл бұрын
daught should read thought sorry . I have had a couple of cool beverages. Cheers
@christopherhampson265
Жыл бұрын
Not daught I meant daft yeah daft !!! I should either stop typing or stop drinking....... so I shall torque to you another time
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
@@christopherhampson265 to answer your question, no. At least not easily... it’s using the stock transmission and worm drive. That being said, it would go 6mph with the stock engine and will now tickle 18mph. I don’t think you want to be on a Fordson F at much more than 18mph.... this is coming from a retired race car driver...
@aeromach2007
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing! My hat's off to you guys.
@jimcovington1142
Жыл бұрын
Two of my favorites! Tractors and Detroit's!
@geofjones9
Жыл бұрын
Love the beerholder and racing slicks!
@brucerazor5202
Жыл бұрын
Love that two stroke
@simonworman7898
Жыл бұрын
You sir are as brave as the first jet plane test pilot, phew! unlocked the 9n/8n/ TOA 20 the steering gear is so frai, The other thing that is really dangerous from my point of view,being a UK resident,is that you are driving on the wrong side of the hiway!
@mattt198654321
Жыл бұрын
The old DD's rev like a bat out of hell. I love it.
@greasefoxx6943
Жыл бұрын
Jesus christ what a cool conversion, i love it!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! It’s a blast.
@simonworman7898
Жыл бұрын
Henry would not turn in his grave,he be out checking the conversion, Even his spirited hand shake could make you rich,but look out for his company and offspring,they would'nt like it!
@benterbieten9540
Жыл бұрын
Wow, that is totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@patriotmob3227
Жыл бұрын
badass i love these kind of builds
@duron700r
Жыл бұрын
Now THAT'S a Fordson I'd walk up to see! Excellent, and that Jimmy 6 runs beautifully! And a Fairway to boot!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
It’s not really a fairway... we’ve got a 1927 fairway with the W&K wheels, but this has the extension rims to the inside and they’re just a regular wheel cut in half with the spokes cut off. The front wheels were homemade by someone long before we acquired it and are locking ring style rims likely from a forklift. Perhaps it had rubber at one time but it’s history from that time is unknown. There must have been a width constraint to put the extension to the inside, it’s awful tight for the driver between them. Our best guess is that it was possibly industrial or airport use? The worm wheel shows lots of wear also so she spent her timing driving/pulling. It never had a belt pulley as the PTO gear showed no wear.
@duron700r
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 Thank you for that! Very cool.
@scrotiemcboogerballs1981
Жыл бұрын
What a beast I love it thanks for sharing
@SCRB1GR3D98
Жыл бұрын
Woah woah woah... what kind of iron f*ckery is going on..? I like it 👌🏼
@hemibreath
Жыл бұрын
Definitely 😎 cool Love the look Rear wheels set off the cool look 👍👍
@jmyers9853
Жыл бұрын
that is great, a rat rod tractor, never would have thought of that
@paulmurphy5964
Жыл бұрын
Cool machine you built!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! The build was a ton of fun and didn’t wreck any original parts that weren’t already damaged. For the most part it’s a “bolt in”!
@WARD5KUSTOMZ
Жыл бұрын
I laughed when you said earplugs
@Tshade67
Жыл бұрын
Should've been done that way to begin with. That is an awesome toy. Job well done sir!
@jorgeposadas1192
Жыл бұрын
The Hurst shifter blew my mind.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Had it kicking around and someone had cut the original loop off the top of the shifter. This tractor was a mess of farmer repairs when we started. Had an automotive steering box butched onto it also. Original engine was frozen so bad it’s nearly in two pieces...
@byrdprecision8824
Жыл бұрын
Just as ford intended
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Henry Sr. Is either spinning in his grave or wishing he had thought of it...
@jamieteal2107
Жыл бұрын
Now it’s really alive 👍🇦🇺
@allensandven0
Жыл бұрын
She’s a restomod a real beauty A ❤
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. We’ve got some stock examples we wouldn’t mess with and we appreciate them but this tractor was junk and got a new life!
@allensandven0
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 I love that whole GM in a ford thing very cool just don’t let it run away on you that would scare the bejesus out of me 🙏🏼👀
@stevesyncox9893
Жыл бұрын
Awe you shut it down at the good part! ‘Nother...!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
I almost fell off the back trying to film and drive with one hand! Here’s a speed run video though. kzitem.info/news/bejne/s4p7nJx6rYR0bIo
@Tchristman100
Жыл бұрын
I had the MT41 24v starter on my Cat 3406B with a series/parallel switch. The starter went, and I took all that 24v crap off and bought a MT39 gear drive starter 12v that takes half the cranking amps (so equal to the 24v) is half the weight (the MT41 is a beast) and instead of running 4 size 31 batteries, I run 3- size 31 batteries with the unused 4th now for my generator (it is a motorhome now). It works well and I won't ever use a 24v starter again.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Nice. Yeah 24v can be a pain when you have 12v loads also giving uneven discharge rates. This starter was from a marine application and is one of two I have on hand. The other is going on a 6v53 in a square body Chevy and is 12v. As you know these big starters aren’t cheap. I bet your starter cost what I have in a gasket set and piston rings for this engine! I also have no other electrical loads and am using (to my surprise) two 350CCA lawn tractor batteries in series to start this. They have automotive posts, not lugs and do start it pretty well until it gets cold, then they just can’t spin it fast enough/long enough to fire.
@Tchristman100
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 Have you ever checked out a wind up spring starter? Then no electrical at all is needed.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
@@Tchristman100 I’ve seen only one example online of a Detroit with an inertia starter but I’d love to find one. I’m looking for an air starter for another 6v53 project but even those are hard to find without giving up a first born!
@Tchristman100
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 Inertia starter is where you have a small flywheel that you spin up (like on some aircraft engines). What I'm talking about is a spring starter-relatively new and easy to use. You wind it about 30 turns, then release it and it starts!
@francisgoldstien6153
Жыл бұрын
Sounds good
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thank you but it’s a Detroit. It has no choice but to sound good 😎
@Carla-tz7qw
Жыл бұрын
Better than your average Cummins. Make some noise!!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Other engines may make more power or have better fuel efficiency but they will NEVER BE A DETROIT 2 stroke! 😎
@jeffscott8323
Жыл бұрын
Bbbbad to the bone. American Quality
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
When people actually put pride in their work 🇺🇸 quality 👍🏻. Coming from America’s hat.
@mikewinkelman7015
Жыл бұрын
Super tractor!!!!
@georgepretnick4460
Жыл бұрын
Anyone object to a little history? The Fordson, among the first gasoline fueled farm tractors, began sales in 1917. The majority of farming at that time was done with a man behind a plow and a couple draft animals. Mules, horses, oxen, etc. The invention of the gasoline tractor ended that. A tractor could plow ten times as much as a man behind mules. That ended the sharecropper/tenant farmer agricultural system. Many thousands of former sharecropper/tenant farmers were kicked off the land which belonged to major land owners. Unemployment soared in the southern USA. Concurrently, automotive, ag implement, and other major industries were quickly ramping up in the north along the Great Lakes and northeast states. This triggered the mass migration to northern jobs by African Americans and destitute white Americans alike. Now, those former employment seekers are once again of minimal use to heavy industry and are struggling to find middle class labor in the USA.
@RustyRescues
Жыл бұрын
She's a unit! Would love to find a legit fairway at some point, don't have one in my collection yet!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. We’ve got a ‘27 fairway which was owned by Sir Harry Oakes, who died under “suspicious circumstances” in Cuba I think? Burned in his hotel bed or something. The tractor was used on one of the golf courses he owned...
@RustyRescues
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 that's awesome! Fantastic that you know the history, too often people just want the "thing" and don't preserve its history; very cool!
@hectoralejandrocomignani9056
Жыл бұрын
MARAVILLOSO SONIDO DESDE ARGENTINA
@punisher3607
Жыл бұрын
Try and tow something with it, would love to hear it under some load!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
I think It will fold the wheels
@rossohalloran7773
Жыл бұрын
That’s cool
@darrenshearer6779
Жыл бұрын
Not many things sound better than a screaming Jimmy!
@papawsbackyard8774
Жыл бұрын
We had a neighbor who pulled a 6 bottom plow with a Model 1900 Oliver with a Detroit and straight pipe. By the time he was sixty he couldn't hear himself fart
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
WHAT?
@arnoldalt2571
Жыл бұрын
long gone I'm sure.
@timkeeler4461
Жыл бұрын
Cold snack is shook
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
They settle down...
@douglasmeek9774
Жыл бұрын
Very cool!
@woodhonky3890
Жыл бұрын
Don't get much sicker than that!
@fricknjeep
Жыл бұрын
hi there nice job john
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Thanks bud! It was almost more fun building it than driving the noisy bugger! Ahh who am I kidding, Detroit’s make music!
@carolinemcnabb9957
6 ай бұрын
LOVE IT needs jakes though
@FlatBroke612
6 ай бұрын
YES! They’re very hard to find for the 53 series but I have a machine shop and I’m pretty sure I can fit 71 series jakes on the 53 series heads. Those are much easier to find. I might have to experiment!
@65vette396
Жыл бұрын
This is freaking AWESOME!!!!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
I dunno man, an early big block Vette Is pretty sweet too...
@65vette396
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 absolutely, we all gotta love anything mechanical and American… right 😜
@dean4817
Жыл бұрын
So no fillings in teeth I presume....
@lewiemcneely9143
Жыл бұрын
A 53 series at 2800 R's will do that.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
@@lewiemcneely9143 she’s jacked to 3k no load EEEKKKKK!
@lewiemcneely9143
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 Sounds about right. Drove an old GMC tandem dump with a 6V-53 nd a 13-under. Top speed was around 60 at 2800. My eyeballs were swapping holes and my teeth and all fillings had been forgotten when I went into hi-range.
@bmxugp09
Жыл бұрын
Another gm engine in a ford!
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Wonder if Henry would find the humour in it!
@MrSuperchargeron
Жыл бұрын
I want that tractor to pull my boat down to the river.
@rearspeaker6364
Жыл бұрын
I just don't think the alternator rope is period correct.............it should be hemp rope........
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Good catch 🤣
@GRADE8BOLT
Жыл бұрын
Ford with Chevy power
@MrSuperchargeron
Жыл бұрын
Why did you cut the video short?
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t hang on and film. It accelerates prettt violently (for a Fordson) and almost sent me off the back when the video cut...
@MrSuperchargeron
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 🤣 I can only imagine! Love that thing! Hope to see more! You need to have someone follow you! There's a guy out here that has a small block Chevy in an old ford N8. It's all painted up and chromed out. He drives it around and pulls his boat down the street to the launch ramp.
@MrShakotan
Жыл бұрын
That's a real cocktail tease. End the vidya just as a guy is feeding er the coal.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
She darn near sent me off the back driving with one hand and filming with the other! There’s a speed run video posted on my channel. She goes 18mph up from the stock 6mph. It’s snakey shakey!
@RattleCanRanger
Жыл бұрын
On today's episode of sketchy 💩 I've done!
@deldrader5260
Жыл бұрын
I've tried to order this item, but the only way is to put your C C number on the internet. NO WAY. I've tried to find a phone number, but they don't want to talk to anybody. Something is wrong. I also can't find anybody that has bought one.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Gotta watch those “wish dot com” scammers 🤣
@deweydodo6691
Жыл бұрын
Lets see it in the field
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
I’d like to make some fenders to protect the driver when the wheel spoke fail... we’re thinking of making these fenders and some heavy duty wheels for pulling. I don’t care if I break it, I just don’t want to die/lose limbs.
@guillermog.b8912
Жыл бұрын
What series is that engine? Sounds like a 53 or a 60 series
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
6v53
@guillermog.b8912
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 Thank you Sir. That's a great engine 👌✌️✌️
@1coppertop
Жыл бұрын
Gettin a big head on that opened
@caddydaddy6728
Жыл бұрын
What happened you fall off? LOL
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Darn near! It’s a handful when you rack up! Here’s a speed run with no rubber. Too bad pops cut this video early cuz I was sideways with engine braking right after. She will go 18mph now up from 6mph originally. kzitem.info/news/bejne/s4p7nJx6rYR0bIo
@noahthompson1811
Жыл бұрын
Is this on pei?
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Yep. Fuck O’Leary!
@noahthompson1811
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 hell yeah nice to see stuff like this on pei hahaha
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
@@noahthompson1811 it’ll be at some of the shows this summer. You might see it in person. 👍🏻
@moefuggerr2970
Жыл бұрын
Vid just cuts.
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
Almost tossed me off the back, was only holding on with one hand...
@ThatOneGuyWithTheEye
Жыл бұрын
What do you normally put in the radiator?
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
It had straight water in it and would be frozen now.
@andrewsmart2949
Жыл бұрын
yeah cant see the original components liking 210hp lool
@FlatBroke612
Жыл бұрын
I’m not sure what would fail first... the transmission pretty beefy, it’s got an 11” Chevy clutch/pressure plate which won’t hold all the Detroit’s torque, the input shaft is made from three pieces but was prepped and TIG welded as 4140 with pre heating/post cooling... the bronze worm wheel or the wheel spokes themselves would be my guess for initial failure. We’re planning some fenders to protect the driver from a wheel failure before we put any traction or pull with it.
@andrewsmart2949
Жыл бұрын
@@FlatBroke612 had them in hino buses in australia and a HD16 allis chalmers front end loader,they were high powered in 8 tonne vehicles,detroit rated them for towing 28 tons LOL N/A
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