TEA-20...bonnet?

Tony in Mass.

Well-known Member
Deadsville eh? OK, a new question to limber up all our brains around here...
These channels look like a slider on the inside of a filing cabinet. The only thing I can think of is a shower curtain style rain cover? The lights are using the normal holes, so what else??
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Tony.

The rails are for the bonnet (a Yank using the term "bonnet"?) support/restraint. It is a "V" shaped rod about 3/8" thick that pivots on the front of the fuel tank.

Easy to make.

I'll see if I have a photo...........

Bob in Oz
'53 TEA20


Later:

Nope. I don't have a photo nor can I find a photo on the net. Doesn't the TO series also have the same bonnet support?
 
Nay Bob. The TO series just have thick tabs under the grill that let it rest on the pivot housing when open.
Hummm... So this might be why some yank before me put a dog chain from the top of the inside of the grill to the thermo housing?
.... bloody poms....
 
Tony

Found a photo:

[b:4b338e8560]Bonnet support[/b:4b338e8560]

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Unfortunately that EBay item has finished.

The straight centre section goes in a "U" shaped hinge that bolts to the front of the fuel tank and the knobs on at the end fit into the tracks in the Bonnet.

Hopeless explanation, I know! Let me know if you want me to photograph my tractor or need more details.

Bob in Oz
 
Yes, the TE20 should use the same Bonnet Support.

For some reason a post I made is missing in Modern View but appears in Classic View. The post is:

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Bingo!!!

Here is a place in NY that sells the Bonnet Support:

Look down that web page for part no S.67469 Hood Support.

Also, further down is part no S.43583 Hood Seal Kit that you commented on with my TEA20.

(Those part numbers look suspiciously like Sparex numbers??)

Bob in Oz

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It may have been very naughty of me to mention another US supplier, however I have now discovered the TEA20/TE20 Bonnet Support is also available from this site:

[b:848024024b]YT - Bonnet Support[/b:848024024b]

[b:848024024b]Ferguson TE20 Hood Support[/b:848024024b]
Description: For tractor models TE20, TEA20.
Hood Support Part Number 825615M1 $29.20

Bob in Oz
'53 TEA20
 
OOOOOOOOOh!!!! That's what that was!!!!! It got thrown in the bin with all the empty beer cans last week.... oooooohhhh.....
Not really, but that explains the sheet metal plate bolted to the tank... ta bob
 
Good job Charles! You know how to make Rustoleum look good!!!
I won't have time this week to deal with this, she still doesn't have the wheels on... and I wanted to brag about getting this long dead TEA running and rolling in 30 days!! Didn't happen. running yea, but T plus 2 days already, but doesn't matter...the old steering wheel had to come off with a cutting torch...and I can't find a new one I have...somewhere... and it still has the Ford axles... so I don't want to put fluid in the arsend...yet... 35 days till the FENA show... so much to do.....so little time.... and now a hurricane might come this way....ooooooohhhh
 
New York???? That's too close!!
It's no fun unless you spend countless hours driving in the wop wops to find a rusting one that won't come off the donor.
I think Miner will dig me one out of a snake infested boneyard in Texas... He's handy like that!!!
Hey Bob! What year is yours? I need some close ups of the casting marks on the axle housings- I saw a TE20 with marks a lot like mine, but the proper axles inside. Neither of mine have the TE's 'LEYS' mark. You say the steering wheel should be chrome? And gear lever? Not just the ball? Old timers tell me to not worry about any of this, all the imported tractors looked different in batches compare to the cookie cutter TO's. Some showed up as kits??? That's hard to believe. Crates don't roll off a ship too well.
 
Tony

[i:f55af04dc8]"You say the steering wheel should be chrome? And gear lever? Not just the ball?"[/i:f55af04dc8]

No, the steering wheels were originally steel, zinc plated with the outer ring Bakelite covered - I think!

When I was restoring my Fergy I assumed the gear lever and throttle were originally all chrome plated, so cleaned them up and had them chrome plated. I later discovered only the gear lever knob was chrome plated.

However, I did discover with chrome throttle and "shifter" the tractor is at least 20 MPH faster. I believe that had I had the wheels chromed Fergy would have done wheelies and the standing quarter mile in under 15 seconds.

Any teenage rev head will confirm that "bling" vastly improves performance.

If only I'd known!

Fergy is not at home, stored at a friends house close by. I'll try to get there in the next few days and get some rear axle photos for you.

My Fergy is a TEA20, Serial No TEA 341439

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Transmission casting date 6 July 1953:

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Production date 10 July 1953.

Bob in Oz
'53 TEA20
 
Bloody oath? The wheel's not chrome spoke? Nor the whole lever? Nay bloody worries then!! USSparex got them! Actually, if I can find it, I got them already... too much bloody junk!
So in the 2 year difference my tag became MHF, but still Standard made. Apparently my diff housing and cover is original too, none of the markings on mine match any other 20, or Ford. So I give up worrying about casting marks on it. Axle housing castings are all over the map. Never seen two with the same codes.
If I put the half tracks on this one, no one will ever be able to see the bloody markings anyway! Even me!
Now if you could tell me the ends of the axles had a 2 inch nut locked on... tha'd make my day- blimey... my whole 2014!!!!

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Yep. TEA#430755, 1955. Engine date is 31 Dec '54... who the heck is sober at work on a day like that? No markings on the alloy tranny at all, I was hoping to find some and use a paint pencil to highlight them, no such animal either... So I'll just concentrate on boring stuff.... like making it run well???
BTW, I wirewheeled and clear coated the aluminium castings, I thought they would be lighter and brighter than paint, I was wrong again..... on the steel parts I'm using a metalic/hammer finish Rustoleum.... I like it!!!
 
Tony

Any idea how that TEA20 tractor got into the USA?

I may be wrong but I thought the TE Fergies in the USA were generally the early Continental engine tractors, manufactured prior to the US commencing manufacture of the TO20.

I thought - obviously incorrectly - that importation of TE Ferguson tractors ceased after production of TO20's commenced?

Could it have slipped over the border from Canada at some later date?

The hammer tone would look very nice. I used Wattyl Killrust gun metal hammer tone on the transmission of my XKE Jaguar (the clean aluminium looked very drab) and had the front sub frame bead blasted and powder coated the same colour.

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Apologies for the thread drift!

If there is one thing I can suggest for your TEA20, invest in Pertronix electronic ignition and high voltage coil. Makes it into a totally different tractor and you never need to remove the distributor cover again.

Bob
 

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