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auggy53

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Everything I have read says that a motor casting number on an 8n that has the 8n-b designates a side mount distributor. I have a front mount
with the 8n-b cast code. What gives ? The vertical number above it is H 22 1 telling me it was cast on 8/22/51. I can't read the serial number ,
I've tried everything.
Thanks again
 
(quoted from post at 16:23:04 08/19/15) Everything I have read says that a motor casting number on an 8n that has the 8n-b designates a side mount distributor. I have a front mount
with the 8n-b cast code. What gives ? The vertical number above it is H 22 1 telling me it was cast on 8/22/51. I can't read the serial number ,
I've tried everything.
Thanks again
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here has been 65 years worth of opportunity for untold numbers of people to swap things!!! :roll:
 
50 year old Ford's can have anything under the hood. You can change it to a side mount. You need a cam shaft,front cover,and distributor.
 
The side mount block has two studs on the left front side of the block that the front mount block does not have. Also the oil filter mount and the oil filler tubes are in different places on the blocks.

Zane
 
Like this Zane ? I thought that was because the generator might have been mounted there or something. It's been changed to 12 volt. I'm just courious as to why it's not a side mount.
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(quoted from post at 17:39:32 08/19/15) Like this Zane ? I thought that was because the generator might have been mounted there or something. It's been changed to 12 volt. I'm just courious as to why it's not a side mount.
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es, that is where a side mount distributor tractor generator mounts. Think for a second....on the right side where your generator is now would be the space occupied by the side mount distributor. Why does it not have a side mount distributor? Well that would be because someone changed things a bit over the last 65 years!!!! duh!
 
reminds me of 2 or 3 tractors I own.

a naa with a later replacement 134 engine likely out of a 2000

a 950 I literally 'put together' out of MANY different tractors.

a '941D' that I know has had a trans swap.

a 2000 ( 4 cyl ) that now only has one major casting still from the 2000 :) engine and trans have been swapped from 640/641


:)

On that 950 I mow with.. as soon as I find another single or 2 piece front pedistal that is in better condition.. it will get swapped too. :) I've been into it twice and it's as farmerized as it can get to make it still work :)
 
The only question I would have to ask is why would anyone want to swap from side to front distributor? seems like going backwards
 
(quoted from post at 13:02:08 08/20/15) The only question I would have to ask is why would anyone want to swap from side to front distributor? seems like going backwards
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don't know about anyone's "wants", but no one has said, as far as I see, that a swap was made here from a side distributor to a front distributor. Since he once declared it a 1949 tractor, I suspect it was originally a front mount & over the years, a later block was installed, using all the 1949 peripherals.
 
(quoted from post at 10:02:08 08/20/15) The only question I would have to ask is why would anyone want to swap from side to front distributor? seems like going backwards
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i guess i should have asked the question a little differently like tiger joe asks. i bought it as a 49 , after doing some reading on identification i am sure its a 51 motor with a 47ish rear. what i should have said was why would anyone change it from a side to a front distributor assuming it left ford as a front dist. i dont know alot about these old tractors , but im learning . so if i ask a stupid question ( to you ) im sure someone will point it out .
 
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