Ford 8000

dej(Jed) · May 23, 2013

Local salvage yard was going to scrap it . Although I am not a Ford fan I just couldn"t see letting this 8000 get melted down. In a week or so I may change my mind though. If it was a selectomatic I would ahve let get melted down.

W_B · May 23, 2013

These were darn good tractors in their day. Our neighbor had one and worked it hard as his primary tillage machine. Looks like you have a project!

Billy NY · May 23, 2013

We had those new on the lot, I can remember the day we had one from the lot at the farm, was new or close to it, man thats a long time ago... can recall a spark or 2 out the stack, used to love those days, had a lot full of thousand series tractors, lot of 2000-4000's few 5000's and of course the 8000, my father went somewhere in regards to the 8000's and up to demo and get familiar with the larger ones.

Fordfarmer · May 23, 2013

Even if it's not worth saving, it should be worth more in parts than as scrap. Many parts will also fit the 9000 and 86/9600.

paul · May 23, 2013

Fair amount of 2000 through 5000 tractors around here, bigger than that do not see many of that age. In fact, not sure I've ever seen an 8000 Ford?

Needs some buffing to be sure, wonder what is wrong, engine or tranny, with it?

Paul

Dick2 · May 23, 2013

Reminds me of when I spotted a rusty old Cockshutt SP112 combine on a dealer's lot after harvest. He wanted to sell it before winter so I made him a real low offer, thinking that it would be good for a parts combine for the SP112 that we had.

When I looked it over close after we got it home, I discovered that it wasn't nearly as much as ours; it just hadn't been kept in a shed. We ran that combine alongside our SP112 for several years with only minor problems.

I hope that you are that lucky too.

showcrop · May 23, 2013

You could become a Ford fan. Start by calling it a Select-O-Speed instead of selectomatic and recognize as those in the know do that the second generation SOS is a great trouble free unit. There are still hundreds of thousands of 1000 series Fords with SOSs out there working every day.

Greg K · May 23, 2013

Dad still has his that is used mostly for the snowblower now. The early ones had a power steering system similar to the one that caused some Greyhound busses to crash, so you can no longer get some parts for it. IIRC you have to replace the whole system. Like everyone else said, they are a good tractor. Dads just has the gear driven trans, no SOS.

mark in boonville ny · May 23, 2013

im glad you saved it but dont scrap it anyway. its rough but has great potential. love my 8000 although its in way better shape than that and parts are getting hard to find. could be a very nice project

Dick W. · May 24, 2013

When did gen2 of the SOS start? Can they be
identified so as not to buy an older gen1?

steve wi · May 24, 2013

8000's never had select-o-speed transmissions.

rustyfarmall · May 24, 2013

(quoted from post at 09:55:20 05/24/13) 8000's never had select-o-speed transmissions.

Thank you. I was thinking the same thing.

showcrop · May 24, 2013

(quoted from post at 09:48:56 05/24/13) When did gen2 of the SOS start? Can they be
identified so as not to buy an older gen1?

I believe that it was 1964. There has been a lot lately on the Ford forum about telling them apart. The cast number on the left side of the early ones starts with CONN while the later ones start with C3NN. from the right side you can tell from twenty feet away looking at the top cover. The early one is rounded all the way across left to right The later one has a diagonally sloping flat right end to the "hump".

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