8n 4wd

Hey y'all I'm new here, and I'm sure this has popped up a thousand times before but working at a ford/newholland tractor dealership I feel it's only appropriate I have a ford or newholland tractor hence why I'm here. Anyways I'm looking to buy an 8n and I've fell in love with the 4wd conversion kits my question is can you still get them as a complete kit in pieces? If so where?

Thanks!
Jonboy

I can't tell you if you can buy a "kit". This site may offer you some direction.
Elenco

(quoted from post at 19:48:10 02/23/17) I can't tell you if you can buy a "kit". This site may offer you some direction.
Elenco

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Yea I've looked at that site along with 50 others and read numerous forums that the same thing was brought up on several years ago which is the reason why I asked. I appreciate your reply and hopefully I'll run across someone who may actually have the whole shooting match ready to install! Any advice on does and fonts as far as restorations go?

Here's one someone has done. Not mine. Wish it was. Still wouldn't push snow
with it.

(quoted from post at 07:45:26 02/24/17) Here's one someone has done. Not mine. Wish it was. Still wouldn't push snow
with it.

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Beautiful tractor! Goals is all I can say I'm bound and determined to find a 4wd kit for mine

Couple of things to keep in mind with a 4wd 8N. While there are a few out there as the photos in this thread show, they are either a home brew version, or an altered Elenco kit for a later hundred series Ford tractor. Both 8N's pictured in this thread are Elenco kits designed for the hundred series Ford and modified to use on an 8N. An 8N with its original engine is really underpowered to run 4wd. Note that the one tractor in this thread now has a flathead V8 engine. If you really have your heart set on a vintage 4wd Ford tractor, keep searching for a hundred (preferably an 800) series or a 801 series Ford that is already equipped with an Elenco. They do come up for sale now and then, and prices have dropped from the sky high days a few years back. Most Elencos were sold in the northeast part of the US, then the next most were sold in the Midwest. Depending on where you are at, they may be few and far between. If you give us a general area of the country where you are located, may help narrow down your search. If you find a 4wd kit not installed on a tractor, you may not know if all the parts of the kit are there unless you are very familiar with these kits. And if you are dead set on installing a kit on an 8N, you will have to make some modifications to make it work on an 8N. Good luck with your search and not trying to be negative, just pointing out some things.

no offense taken I appreciate all the info, and yes I am pretty dead set on finding one, I know sounds childish. I'm from North Carolina and 8n's are everywhere here but you never see a 4wd plus lucky me I found a kit to install dual rear wheels as well! I want something unique and different I guess that's why I'm pushing so hard on the 4wd.
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Back to your original question of where to buy a kit, a very knowledgeable gentleman named Tony Jacobs now owns
Elenco. If you have deep pockets, you may be able to purchase an entire kit from him. Odds are you will hear from
Tony the same thing I already mentioned about an 8N being underpowered for an Elenco kit. The 34 horsepower 600
and 601 series are underpowered for the Elenco kit, that is why most Elenco kits will be found on an 800 or 801
series with 40 horsepower. If you give me your email, I will send you contact info for Tony. Thanks, Michford
(Pat)

4WD 841

Since putting a V-8 in an N is something I'd never do, I'd take the sound advice here about using a Hundred series tractor for your project. I think that the MC of this parade said that this is an 841 but I'm not sure because the audio is sketchy.

(quoted from post at 10:45:26 02/24/17) Here's one someone has done. Not mine. Wish it was. Still wouldn't push snow
with it.

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That tractor belonged to Jack McDevitt (McDevitt Trucks Inc) who died in Jan 2015 shortly after it was completed. He once told me his goal was to put every option he could find on the tractor. We discussed incorporating my redesigned version of a Howard transmssion but he had to scrap that idea when he discovered how the Elenco 4WD drive power takeoff was engineered. As you might have guessed cost was not an obstacle and he had the resources of the largest heavy truck dealership in New Engalnd at his disposal. Here is the thread that launched his project:

The McDevitt 8N

TOH