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oldtanker

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Talk about sticker shock. I just priced new replacement lights for my 8N that doesn't have lights. For a working tractor that's spendy! Guess I'll go with the cheap tractor work lights found in most tractor/farm supply stores. It is a working tractor, not for show. I just think the originals look better, but not that much better!

Rick
 
Just do like I did with my old Ferguson. I went ahead and bit the bullet - paid the outragious price. When the wife asked me how much they cost, I told her about $10 each. I just forgot to mention that I was "depreciating" them over the remaining life of the tractor (or operator), depending on who outlasts the other!
 
David, sense this tractor never had lights buying them with the wings would be real close to 200 bucks. Now keep in mind that this a work tractor, not used for shows or parades. So work lights it is.

Hills, if I wanted bad enough to pay the price I'd just buy them. The wife is way past the point of asking what a repair cost.


Rick
 
I bought a pair at TSC which had a similar breast shape as an 8N, painted them Ford gray and sold the tractor. New owner didn't care.
 
If you think Tract-O-Lights are expensive shop around for a pair of CM Hall's that were the original lights on the early 9N.
 
Guess I better hang onto my No's headlights. Have
the wings and wiring clips too....always wondered
what a person might think they're worth. Maybe one
day when I paint the 51 I'll stick them on
there.....it'd have to be a trailer queen then..
 

Are mine the same as original equipment?

thanks

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Should be stamped on the shell. I know tract-o-lights are stamped and id have to check I think ive got a set of cm's too. Yours wouldn't have wing but the "circles" or whatever they are called like it does. Looks like the right side is cracked though?
 
They are the right "style" and shape at least.
I can't say for sure if they are original lights.
Any stampings/markings in them?
I sanded 60+ years of paint off a set the other
day before I found the Tract-O-Light stampings.
 
I'll be filling that crack in the mount piece with Devcon Plastic Steel. I just can't quit advertising! :D

Filled in my Steering wheel cracks with it and it blended right in.

Royse and Lisa,

I've had the retaining rings off only and didn't look around inside but I will later. Painted them with that Plasticote but the stuff just wears off so they'll be grey next time I have at 'em.

thanks,
T

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It should be stamped into the outside of the housing near
the ring. In that eBay listing that was posted, you can kind
of see it on the right hand light in the third picture.
 
Good grief!!
How did I not notice that! There it is bold as brass . . . Tract-O-Lite :D

Not on the work lite though.

thanks!!
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I had sticker shock when I priced the lights and wings but I did it anyway because I want to get my 94 year old neighbor on this tractor in the parade lookin good and livin large and because I am deeply blessed and can afford to do it.

I look at it this way, if it's for work then the best quality and least expensive option is good. If it's for a little bit of show then I bite the bullet.
Thanks for your post.
Rick
 
Just noticed a possibly interesting fine point.

The "tract-O-Lite" on that right eBay light is stamped in italics
and mine aren't.

Probably just photo angle and distortion, sorry.
 
Guess I got a good deal at a auction last fall. Bought a pile of 5 N trac o lites headlites, 4 work lights and 3 taurus tail lamps for $2.00.
 
Greywolf,

It's just a regular weight lifting bar or equivalent pipe, laying across the bumber mount brackets. Then two long bolts go through each group of weights to fasten them together -- but I guess inner collars on the bar would do just as well. Those galvanized bolts are longer than they need to be as well cause the main bar isn't long enough to accept any more weights anyway.
The long bar needs to be somehow fixed forward on the bumper so it can't roll or slide backward or forward.

Cheers,
Terry

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for non resto stuff.. farm stores and napa nad harbor freight have the cheap rubber cup swivel style mount lamps in the 35-55w range usually for 5-10 $ for the shell with lamp.
 
(quoted from post at 08:00:24 08/07/14) for non resto stuff.. farm stores and napa nad harbor freight have the cheap rubber cup swivel style mount lamps in the 35-55w range usually for 5-10 $ for the shell with lamp.


Round here they are 13.95 as of the other day. I was in getting a new replacement light for my boat trailer and noticed them when I was looking at strobes. I'm thinking that with 16 mile round trips to other fields during tourist season with a 14' haybine I should put a strobe on the big tractor. Anyway there were right next to the work light you describe and I noticed the price. I've got 4 or five of those around that I took off another tractor before I sold it. So I guess when I pull the rear hubs for seals and brakes I'll wire it for lights.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 08:31:07 08/07/14) here's the cheap napa one i use for 10$

LIT 50620W3

I didn't check NAPA yet. I was in Fleet Farm. And those were the one's I noticed. I'm going to NAPA in a bit. I'll have em run that number for me. Like I say I have some. 4 or 5 that were mounted on a cab from another tractor I sold. It had a Year Around cab the byer didn't want and I have another tractor with the same cab, so I kept it. Lights are still on it. That way I'd know where they are if I needed them. That CRS stuff is kicking in :? . I'll put flashers on this one too. It's out on the highway from time to time.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 09:31:04 08/07/14) i like lamps on machines. safety.. visibilty.

I agree 100%. We have a lot of older tractors around here. People are shocked that all the lights on my 1967 1206 Farmall work to include the directionals and flashers. I want a strobe on it for additional warning with the tourist when pulling the 14' haybine on the highway and through a small town. Plus in the winter I go into town to blow out the MIL's drive. I think there is never too much safety when on the roads with a piece of equipment. My other N has lights to include flashers and my M Farmall all the lights work.

Rick
 
I mow alot with a 950 ford trike, it has headlamps and amber/red flashers on the fenders, mower has reflective fit tape all over it, I mow row in the area I live, etc, see some road traffic
 
(quoted from post at 07:00:01 08/07/14) Greywolf,

It's just a regular weight lifting bar or equivalent pipe, laying across the bumber mount brackets. Then two long bolts go through each group of weights to fasten them together -- but I guess inner collars on the bar would do just as well. Those galvanized bolts are longer than they need to be as well cause the main bar isn't long enough to accept any more weights anyway.
The long bar needs to be somehow fixed forward on the bumper so it can't roll or slide backward or forward.

Cheers,
Terry

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Thanks Pal.
Left my weights at my parents house, 25 years ago when I got married. Dad has been busting my chops to get them out ever since. My son never wanted them (damn X-box). Now I know what to do with them. Bet you Dad through them out!
 
only pic i have handy is one i took last night to send my boss. you can't see the rear and angled rear and mower linkage with the dot reflective tape on it, but you can see one of the flashers and the headlamps
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Nice looking machine.
I like the way the back rubber looks. What size are they?
I've been itching for a 900 series. They look as if they can do a hell of a lot more then the 8N.
 
Greywolf,

You wrote:
Left my weights at my parents house, 25 years ago when I got married. Dad has been busting my chops to get them out ever since. My son never wanted them (damn X-box). Now I know what to do with them. Bet you Dad through them out!

Tell me about it!
I left stuff at home when i came out west and my folks threw out a shoe box full of my complete sets of hockey cards from when there were only SEVEN teams! :shock:

I also had complete sets of elvis Presley bubble gum cards they tossed too.

My folks kept all my 45 rpm records though. :D

Terry
 
rear are big 14.9-28's

9xx will eat an 8n and 'pass' out a bunch of 2n's out the tail pipe ;)

when i bought my first naa, it pretty much put my 8n and 2n out of a job. when i bought my 660 it put my naa out of a job. when i started getting 9xx it put just about every other machine out of a job save an 850 with heavy loader and another with a backhoe and light loader.

soundguy
 
(quoted from post at 08:31:07 08/07/14) here's the cheap napa one i use for 10$

LIT 50620W3


Yup, that's what NAPA quoted me. Told me a walk in customer would pay a buck more.

Rick
 
The first thing I do when I buy a tractor is remove the lights. I don't need them on my own tractors and I aint going to sell one with them on.
I'm getting a pretty good hoard of them on the shelf.
 
(quoted from post at 04:59:54 08/07/14)
(quoted from post at 21:44:29 08/06/14) Buying the tractor-lights wings mounting brackets and tail
lights were the most expensive part of my 9N

$14.50 for the 9N....
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you know, if you calculate the value of dollar compared with inflation, that $14.50 price tag (assuming around 1940) would be close to $240 in 2014 dollars
 
(quoted from post at 04:47:10 08/08/14) The first thing I do when I buy a tractor is remove the lights. I don't need them on my own tractors and I aint going to sell one with them on.
I'm getting a pretty good hoard of them on the shelf.

With all the people looking for originals for restoration projects maybe you should put em on Ebay.

Rick
 
A row crop Ford 700-4000 will more more snow than
the 8n 600's 800's because the row crops won't get
high centered.
My neighbor had a 801 diesel. I pulled him out twice
high centered in snow drifts. My rowcrop 4000 SOS
has never been high centered in snow drifts.
 

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