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ford 741 with 5 speed

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earlh

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I have a 741 wide front with a 1961 serial number stamped (741-5) with a 5 speed trans. I know the 5 means factory wide front. Is it possible to install 5 speed components into a 4 speed housing or was it Ford using up leftover parts the last year of production and miss stamping them.
 
4- and 5-speed gear cases are different. Internals
can't be swapped.
As I understand it, only 4-speeds and Select O-
Speeds were available in the 701, but a few were
special-ordered with the 5-speed. Even though they
had tge 5-speed, they were stamped as 741's, since
751's didn't officially exist.
 
Could be that the transmission was replaced at some point and whoever did the replacing mis-stamped the replacement, as in the tractor was originally a 741-5 and the transmission was replaced with a 5 speed and whoever did the swap stamped the original 741-5 numbers onto the new transmission because they didn't know any better.
 
The gentleman I purchased the tractor from had purchased the tractor in the late 60's from a county highway department. They purchased it new in the early 60's to use to mow highway ditches. They may have special ordered the 5 speed.
 
(quoted from post at 12:12:32 05/07/15) It is factory stamping, not ground down and restamped.
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If you bought a new replacement transmission or it was replaced under warranty it was delivered from the factory without any numbers stamped on it. It was up to the dealer that did the replacing to stamp it appropriately and sometimes they didn't stamp the correct information.
 
If you supply you serial# or at least the first few numbers we can tell if it was from a batch special built for the city of Detroit or Dearborn with gas engines and another batch was built with diesel engines for mowing, they are all around the same serial#.
 
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