Year manufacured 2000 4 cyl

I just bought a ford 2000 4 cyl. It is kind of a mutt, as it probably had a sos transmission, that has been replaced by a 4 speed. Is there any way to determine the serial number or manufacture date? I know that the serial # is supposed to be located below the starter, but that part has been replaced.
Thanks,
Tex

2000 4 cyl and 4000 4 cyl were 1963 and 1964
models.

Bingo, but there were also some 4 cylinder 2000 and 4000 models sold in 1965.

Dean

Did Ford make 2000's in 1962? I'm pretty sure my
4000 is a 62.

Ford did produce almost 11,000 in 1962, which included the already being sold model 6000. The 1963 2000/4000 production started in August 1962.
The 1962 serial numbers for Ford 01 series started with 155531 and end around 171247 with last production in July.
As side notes I have a spring 1962 edition of Ford Farming Magazine which has a full 2 page ad for all the 01 series and the 6000 all red and gray.
The next issue Summer 1962 shows the 01 series in ads also. The 1963 Ford Almanac shows an ad for the new Blue tractors and a big introduction write up.

I also have an original ford service bulletin (green paper) November 27, 1962 announcing the changes for the 1963 models, which included change to Blue and Gray Paint, addition of a simulated air scoop(painted on 2000 models and chrome on 4000 models), Radiator screen restyled with vertical F-O-R-D, elimination of the hand crank opening, a lot of changes to the Select-O-Speeds including Direct Drive Clutches.

If yours has the Blue paint and the changed hood and grill I think it is a 1963 model even though some were built in 62. The light industrials and were renumbered to 2000 series a year or to before the sheet metal and paint changes.
What serial number is your tractor?
Currently I have 3 1959 Select-O-Speed fords, 1962 Select-O-Speed (serial 160671), 1963 2000, 1964 4000 light industrial, also have 2 MM Twin City JTU's and just bought a late 1952 8N last week.

Regards
Gary

Yes it looks like around 7000 were produced in 65 a few hundred a month at least until Sept. Ford probably had parts to make them and some farmers who didn't take take to the new "World Tractors".



Gary

They actually started making 4 cylinder 2000 and 4000 Industrial models in 1961.

Yes and the 61 and 62 2000/4000 industrial models kept the old sheet
metal and buff/ red paint until the 63 changes to sheet metal
and buff/blue paint plus the other mechanical changes listed in
service bulletin.

Gary

(quoted from post at 13:19:52 11/23/14) I just bought a ford 2000 4 cyl. It is kind of a mutt, as it probably had a sos transmission, that has been replaced by a 4 speed. Is there any way to determine the serial number or manufacture date? I know that the serial # is supposed to be located below the starter, but that part has been replaced.
Thanks,
Tex

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Unless you can locate the original transmission there is no way to determine the original serial number of the tractor.

What you can do is look for the date codes on all of the major components and come up with an educated guess of when the tractor was assembled. Check out the pictures in the thread in the link below to see what the date codes should look like, note every one that you find and where you found them. There should be one on the engine, the transmission, both axle trumpets and center housing, and the hydraulic top cover. Post back here all of the date codes that yu find and where you found them, and we should be able to help determine when the tractor was probably originally built based on the consensus of a majority of the date codes.

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Hello Gary , Sorry but you are wrong Ford 4 cylinder production DID NOT END until Dec 1965 . Ford also built Blue and Gray 1962 tractors from August of 1962 to Dec 1962 THEY WERE NOT SOLD as 1963 models UNTIL Jan 1963 . Just as Ford sold the 1963 1/2 Ford Galaxie not a 1964 and the 1964 1/2 Mustang not a 1965 that's how EVERYTHING WAS SOLD , same as the 1954 600/800 WERE NOT SOLD AS 1955's until 1955 . There is plenty of FORD dated sales literature out for sale to prove it not to mention I personally know many of the Ford tractor engineers, dealers and distributors that are still alive today that were there when they were new . The current sales TATIC of selling cars 6 months earlier DID NOT EXSIST back in the 50's, 60's, 70's, but started in the later part of the 80's well into today's market . Thanks Tony

Thanks for the additional info. I knew that production was at least until Sept. I remember one of my friends buying a 1963 1/2 Ford galaxie and remember family members not liking the new blue paint on Ford tractors. Anyway it appears I was led astray by the November Service Bulletin Announcing that paint and sheet metal changes were incorporated into the 63 models and didn't remember how dealers sold cars and tractors back then.

Thanks again
Gary