Ferguson F40 (diesel)

Hello tractorbuddies.

I have become so fascinated with the Ferguson F40 tractor and started wondering, I mean, from what I can see, it was only sold with a Continental Z-134 gas engine, but the TO 35 was also sold with the Standard 23C engine.
Has anyone ever seen or tried to put a 23C engine in a Ferguson 40 ?


Bill

The standard engine is know not to be very reliable.

(quoted from post at 05:00:21 08/24/20) The standard engine is know not to be very reliable.

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Good morning.

What on earth possessed you to offend me so on this Monday morning ?
Before I leave that subject, I want you to tell me with figures, how many seconds, minutes, hours, days or years do you have to crank a Mercedes Benz 300 Turbo diesel without the glow plugs attached before it starts. And if you please can add the Datsun 220 diesel, Peugeot diesels, Ford 7.3 liter diesel, Detroit 6.2 and 6.5 liter diesels in the pickup trucks too, and I could have made the list a lot longer. There is only 2 engine manufacturers on this planet worth mentioning when it comes to pre-chamber diesels, and that is Perkins and Standard diesels, Perkins being the better of the two, but still you can start both without glow plugs. The other ones are still excellent engines.

After this, I am not sure I will come back to my own topic again. There is really no need to answer anymore, I am just tired of asking a question and instead of answering the question people go on about how bad the tractor or engine or whatever in question is. Not only in this forum, but it is all over Internet. After Internet came it seems everyone has to air their opinions about everything.

To put it extremely blunt, I do not care to hear about peoples personal opinion about the stuff I ask questions about. Stick to the fact and the case. Oh yeah, you really made me pi**y this morning.


Bill

I don't know exact details, but the Standard Engine is roughly an inch longer than the
Continental. However, I think that is accounted for by a piece of metal welded into the
radiator support to space it forward on the Continental engines. So the hood, axle radius rods
and steering tie rods should still be okay. The starter and flywheel are presumably bigger,
and the flywheel/clutch should probably come with the engine. There may have to be some
bushings made to support the main shaft pilot bearing. The diesel runs cool, so the old gas
radiator should still work. I'm not sure about the fan shroud. The Fuel tank may need some
new plumbing and the air intake also. The modern battery may be powerful enough to do the job in the same space. The tachometer and maybe starter switches may have to be fiddled with.

I was under the impression that 35s with the standard diesel were all British built and exported around the world. A TO35 would ,I believe,
be built in US only. I think the 40 was also a US only model. After the Massey Ferguson merger the 40 was called the 50 as it had been when
sold by Massey Harris premerger. There were some 50s built with the 3 cylinder Perkins engine.

Would the Perkins 3 cylinder diesel fitted to later MF 50's bolt into the F40?