Posted by john in la on September 28, 2008 at 15:46:21 from (65.6.118.172):
In Reply to: Tractor date codes posted by john in la on September 26, 2008 at 21:30:23:
I would like to thank everyone that has posted codes so far. I would like to also give credit to awhtx for figuring out some of these codes. It was a e-mail from him that got me started on this.
If we look in the archives we can see that I and many others have had these codes wrong. When we decoded these #'s in the past we were coming up with odd days like weekends or holidays. Some letters were even called mistakes from the factory by long time posters and seasoned Ford tractor people. No one could ever explain the upside down letters. Letters N and above were called a miss print because it just did not fit the way we were decoding. The problem seems to be (I) we were looking at the codes in the wrong order. If I have given out bad info in the past because of this I am truely sorry.
While Alan may not have this figured out 100% yet; I can say his new way seems to work much better. I have been checking everyones codes and have not come up with one weekend day or holiday using this new method and all letters have a meaning now. No more; I just do not know; that must be a miss print.
While I would like to see more X01 or X000 codes before coming to a conclusion on these tractors lets look at what I have seen so far. On all the the X00 and very early X01 (except for Alan's replacment trans on the 971) we have codes of ##letter on the block; trans; hyd cover; and rear end center. All fit this new decode method of year; month; day. Year; the # is the last # of the year. 5-1955 Month; 1 to 9 is Jan to Sept. While we need to see more codes I am betting 0 is Oct; A is Nov; and B is Dec. Day; (i is not used) A to Z stands for a day in order. A is 1 B is 2 and so on till Z is 25. Upside down A would be 26; upside down B would be 27 and so on to the end of the month.
Like I said every code listed fits this. Thank you Alan for the hard work you have done to figure this out.
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