4000 Ford Backhoe

pinstripe

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Looking for help getting year model on ford backhoe.
Numbers under hood on sticker are,
Tractor#C222535
Model#D5012K
Unit#8L29B
Transmission# 8K29B
 
4 cylinder or 3 cylinder? My 4000 Ford hoe is a
1964, last year of the American-design Ford and
numbers nothing like your's. Mine has the 172 cube,
four cylinder engine.
 
(quoted from post at 16:20:32 03/01/15) 4 cylinder or 3 cylinder? My 4000 Ford hoe is a
1964, last year of the American-design Ford and
numbers nothing like your's. Mine has the 172 cube,
four cylinder engine.


3 cylinder diesel.
 
1968 4500. Nov 29th, day shift. (unit date code)

D = 4000 (4/68 and newer)
50 industrial
1 diesel
2 Trans 540 PTO
K 6/4 manual tranny.

The number decoder for this era (other eras are different, and for the date codes you always need to be able to guess the right decade) can be found at Oaktree's ford tractor page, but YT won't allow offsite links, so just search for that. He's a good guy.

Can be useful to check the flat spot above the starter just to make sure the hood an the tranny came out of the factory together - that should have model, s/n (tractor#) and the unit date code stamped in - once you clean off the filth.

Your front end loader is a 540 - the 4500 only took the 540 and the 540 is not on any other model (both barring Franken-tractoring in the past 45 years.)

Hoe is usually a 755 ("15 foot"), but there were several variations such as autodig or not. My hoe is a 753 ("13 foot") if you post the I9-XXX (or 19-XXX) number from in front of your knees as you operate the hoe I can tell you which hoe you have.
 

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