Tim Daley was kind enough to lend me some of his documentation to scan and share. Part of it was a 4-page, typed summary of production changes made to the 8N between July 1947 and September 1950. The thing was a bear to OCR, but I finally got enough of it in a Word document to then copy and paste to an Excel spreadsheet. You will need MS Excel to update this or their free reader to read it, if you don't have MS Office or Excel installed on your PC.

If any of you find errors or omissions, please feel free to post here and I will update the spreadsheet as we learn more.

Click here to download it.

Thanks Tim!!

Click here to go to the Microsoft site to download the free Excel viewer software.

Randy.....would you mind looking up when Ford changed the rear fender braces [16312] from the round hole to the square hole for the fender bolts.I tink this happened sometime in 1948 or early 49.Thanks, don b

Thanks for the Excel download....great work.

Don...don't know if this helps, but my *8N 4778* has the square holes. The various tractor casting dates range from 8-22-47 to 9-3-47.

Jeff

Jeff....since the "square holes" did not come out until after 1-1-48, I would suspect your fenders have been changed.Sounds like your tractor was born in Sept.1947.Thanks for the reply. don b

Don, there have been cases where changes are made at the plant and sometime later Engineering gets around to updating the drawings. I could not say for sure that this was not started in 1947, from what I know today.

The fender lower support drawing shown on 9N-16312-A was changed from .66 DIA to .66 SQUARE on 1/48. When this actually changed in production is unknown at this time. Perhaps implementation date is shown on archived change records, which I do not have.

Thanks Randy......don b

Thanks Tim and Ed, thats good stuff! Also thanks for the free reader tip Ed, I just finished reading several things folks have sent over the years, no one I know could tell me about the free reader.

Nice work Tim & Ed, interesting reading.

Jeff