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Ford 860 Update w/ Pictures

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JeffG in WI

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Good afternoon, and thanks again to all who gave me advice about my Ford 860 double clutch replacement last fall!

Heres a link to one of the previous threads about the project:

https://forums.yesterdaystractors.com/viewtopic.php?t=1455449&highlight=860

I ended up bring the tractor home and successfully changed the clutch over the winter. Figured as long as it was back in civilization for the winter, I might as well tear it apart and rebuild it. I should note that I did this before with a 1954 NAA and went a little overboard. The resulting tractor turned out looking more like a trailer queen than a mowing tractor, so I picked up this 860 to do the mowing instead.....

I might have made the same mistake again! Heres the prettier up 860. Its a late 1957 tractor, and when I stripped the paint on the hood, it had a decal ghost of the word Powermaster and the spinning gear. I was able to find a repro decal that was almost a perfect match.


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Nice! I got a new clutch assembly laying
on my office floor to go in my 960.
Something tells me mine won't be that
pretty when it drives back out of the
barn!!
 


Yes, Jeff you may have gone and done it again. Scratching that beauty could get awfully painful. As a good YT brother I have to offer to bail you out. I will bring you a beat-up but ready to work 860 and swap you even. I won't even charge you for shipping. I also appreciate the plated instead of of red painted lug nuts and especially the red starter and generator and black rimmed gauges. When I stripped the hood of my 960 I found the same power master decals, but that was pre-internet and I wasn't able to find new ones so I got what was available and cut the spinning gear out of some vinyl.
 
Thank you for the nice words, everyone! And thanks for the fantastic offer to trade, Showcrop, but
I think I might just have to pass. By the way, creating your own spinning gear shows quite a bit of
dedication to keeping things original. For future reference, if anyone needs the Powermaster decal
with spinning gear, I was able to find one at George Bradish's tractor parts website.
 
Jeff, what brand and color is the gray? Tractor looks beautiful! I have a '55 860 that I want to paint and that shade is the gray I like best. Thank you!
 
(quoted from post at 23:40:09 06/10/21) Jeff, what brand and color is the gray? Tractor looks beautiful! I have a '55 860 that I want to paint and that shade is the gray I like best. Thank you!
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Magnet, welcome to YT! You need to start a new topic. YT has two separate sets of forums that somehow work concurrently. Half of us are on modern view, which like almost every other forum on the 'net, bumps old topics up to the top when someone adds a post. The other half of the YTers refuse to accept anything modern, and insist on staying with classic view. This means of course that only half of the regulars on YT have seen your question, and who knows which one Jeff is on.
 

Good morning, Magnet, and sorry for the delayed reply! Showcrop is correct...because of this forum's setup, your post went under the radar.

The grey is TP-240 by Tisco.

The red is matched to a color called Sunrise Red by Rustoleum.

Please let me know if you have any other questions!
 
Thanks for the reply, Jeff! My new to me 860 has flaking blue paint and the gray underneath looks very similar to yours. More important to me than original colors is that I like the colors. Looks like I can kill both those birds with one paint! Or maybe thats four birds with two paints when I include the red for cast iron?
 
(quoted from post at 21:18:45 07/11/21) Thanks for the reply, Jeff! My new to me 860 has flaking blue paint and the gray underneath looks very similar to yours. More important to me than original colors is that I like the colors. Looks like I can kill both those birds with one paint! Or maybe thats four birds with two paints when I include the red for cast iron?
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No problem!
 
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