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Bryce Frazier

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Bought the Massy Ferguson 50 and got it home last night. It is rough no doubt, fenders are trashed, dents in the hood, and lots of just crappy farmer fixes. LOTS....

Tried starting it, someone had messed with the Distributor and it was all kinds of screwed up, so we fixed that, and put a new carb on it (came with a brand new carb in a bag??). Thing fires right up and runs great! No signs of lack of compression? All cylinders sound even, and it cranks good. No burning oil, any of that. Runs GREAT!

Then I try to move it. 1st gear won't hold, even if you forcibly HOLD it in position, it just kicks out. Same when it is in High too. All other gears seem to be good? Has NO brakes. Nothing, not a hit of stoppage at all!

Long story short, I am thinking I am going to part it out at this point. Tractor is a gas engine, wide front, high crop. No power steering. Does have Engine / Ground PTO.

What do you guys think the engine is worth?
 
Is the Hi-Lo- start lever the one that won't hold? If so the planetary pressed in internal gear needs pushed back in place. When it comes out it limits the sleeve gear mesh in both Hi and Lo range. I've had other MF models do it too.
 
I think it would be better to fix than part out. They are rather scarce. As I said to you earlier post about it I would like to have one but no money for it and I am in Ohio. And no need for power steering on a tractor like that for normal use.
 
There is a place in S Indiana that parts out Masseys. A friend bought a good gas engine for his massey 50 around $4-500, can't remember. Might want to look at salvage yards and see if you could buy a used tranny instead of parting it out.

The tractor belonged to a man who died and my friend wanted to get his tractor running again, sentimental reasons.

I have my mom's tractor and it's priceless to me. Use it all the time.

Some will part out a Yesterday's Tractor. Some of us will enjoy keeping them forever.
 
When I bought my 460 I almost hoped it didn't work because I would have made great money parting it out. Sadly I got it to run great and now I have to put money into tires and wheels and other small things so I can use it. While there is part of my brain that knows parting just about anything out is money ahead if you put the time and space into the endeavor, I just can't trash a functioning machine. But that is the other factor... time and space. It's unlikely that you'll lose money parting out such a machine, but you're just as unlikely to sell the parts super quick. If you follow ebay you'll see many of the same parts all the time. If you take the sum of the prices, someone is going to make great money, but in the mean time they have to store those parts and stay on top of the ads. If I were you I'd simply consider your intentions when buying it. Would fixing the transmission get it to those standards and give you a great machine?
 
I don't think he and his Dad would have any problems fixing that transmission with being mechanicks.
 
Takes time and money and he could very well end up with a tractor he would make less money on,I've never done a mechanic job like what he is describing that could be accurately figured for
either time or money before hand.Almost always more of both than planned.
 
personally I'd Start looking into whats wrong , it's not like you got to pull a cab and a whole pile of other junk to see in the gearbox. I'm guessing if you own it, it was cheap enough to bring home and take a chance on ;). You might find you can fix it sort the brakes, and have a good tractor for less than you can spend on another one "that is good" then find it's "not that good" later as seems to happen sometimes.
 

Gears kick out because they have not fully engaged, could be a quick and easy fix. Is it really a high crop? They are usually worth really good money.
 

Hi, I'm interested in the engine if you let it go. Is it the continental z134? Would be for my F40 while I do a complete rebuild.
 
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