Temp gauge optional?

Bern

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Location
Mount Vernon, WA
Last week I was looking at some Ford lit published in 1965 that focused primarily on the new 2-5000 series tractors. One page showed a pic of
the instrument cluster, noting that it had a fuel gauge, temp gauge, and oil pressure and generator warning lights. I noticed however that
the RH side of the gauge was blacked out where the temp gauge should be. I shrugged it off and chalked it up as a printing error.

Yesterday I picked up a 4000, built between 1965 and 1968 (can't make out the date code, but it had the louvered hood, etc.). To my surprise,
the temp gauge was blacked out, just like the lit I looked at last week. Was a temp gauge really an option back then? This tractor was a B
serial number English build by the way.
 
We never saw any of the range without a temperature gauge but just checked my 1964/66 dealer sales manual and proof meter, fuel gauge and temperature gauge were a joint option on the 2000, proof meter and fuel gauge were standard and temperature gauge optional on the 3000. On the 4000 and 5000 proof meter and fuel gauge standard and temperature gauge optional.

The temperature gauge is listed as a UK dealer installed accessory whilst the others are factory installed options. According to this book a temperature gauge was not an option on the 2000 and was only available as a joint option with proof meter and fuel gauge.

it had been standard equipment on the Major range from 1952 and the Dexta range since 1957. Ford did strange things at times.;0)

Brian
 

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Here is a few pictures of the book I referred to, a Highly Confidential Ford book for selected personnel ;0).

Very interesting and must have been researched at Boreham House as it gives a whole load of data on rival tractors of the time like MF, Nuffield and David Brown comparing each of the range to its competitors. Of course you had to read and memorise it then put all its bullet points into action during demonstrations.

Somehow they never got the point that demos. did not always go the book way and customers did not always do a deal. I have used the points I learnt to confuse salesmen when they tried the deal sealing spiel on me. We had a very active Zetor dealer in my sales area and, on sales training courses, we had many laughs in role playing exercises as Zetor had a good cab and far more extras than Ford were offering at a much lower price. For what my customers needed, the Zetor was a very viable option.
 
Very interesting manual you have there. That's a piece of Ford tractor history for sure. By chance would you be willing to make a pdf copy of it and share it? If there's a cost involved, like say you need to have it professionally done, I would be willing to pay for it.

I found it interesting that they called the 8-speed a dual range transmission, and the SOS a triple range. I've heard the dual range description many times in the past, but never a triple range before.
 
Will see if I can sort a copy out in the next few weeks Bern, I am stuck in the workshop building controls for onion harvesters at the moment. E-mail me your address and i will send you a stick with it on. bheatbtconnectdotcom
 

I also ran across a 4000 with a blacked out temp gauge... but I thought the owner did a clever patch job to work around a defective gauge. The tractor had an aftermarket gauge mounted on it, so I just sloughed it off....Never occurred to me that it might be an option. But lately a lot of things dont seem to occur to me.

I changed out the cluster in this case and put a sender back in it, but the calibration was off to the hot side by 20 degrees iirc. Now I know.
 
I tried your address different ways until it finally didn't come back. I thought it took.

Maybe you can try mine, here it is: bernatfidalgodotnet

Thanks
 

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