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Ed Gooding (VA)    Posted 02-27-2006 at 09:21:24 [URL]        [Reply] [Email]  
  • 1949 TSB - changes made to the 8N tractor
  • Thanks to Dan Mayer (DanNYC), I am in the process of scanning Ford Technical Service Bulletins from 1949-1952. Here's an interesting 4-pager from October 19, 1949 that details changes made to the 8N during the year:


    Jim.UT    Posted 03-06-2006 at 19:05:06 [URL]        [Reply] [Email]  
  • Re: 1949 TSB - changes made to the 8N tractor
  • Hey, wait just a dog-gone minute! How can they make a change at s/n 217307 on Sept 1 and then make another change at s/n 216989 the NEXT DAY (Sept 2)? Do serial numbers go backwards? Hmmm......

    Ed Gooding (VA)    Posted 03-01-2006 at 07:57:35 [URL]        [Reply] [Email]  
  • More info from an earlier 1949 TSB

  • Kelly Jewell (KY)    Posted 02-27-2006 at 21:59:55 [URL]        [Reply] [Email]  
  • Re: 1949 TSB - changes made to the 8N tractor
  • Thanks Dan and Ed for adding. I'm not convinced it took the Ford engineers 10 years to figure out they needed 3 holes in the 585 rocker. I still tend to believe this came out of the court findings that a change had to be made to the 3 point hitch. But I suppose if this was the case Ford could not put that in a service bulletin.

    don b    Posted 03-01-2006 at 12:10:47 [URL]        [Reply] [Email]  
  • Re: 1949 TSB - changes made to the 8N tractor
  • kelly.....according to a re-print of an ad[shown in one of PRIPPS books]Ford had published,there was two things that Ford had to change on the tractors because of the lawsuit,the long 486 pin and the hyd.pump.These were to be changed by 12-31-52. don b

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