Barn Find

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In 1997 I built this barn for one of my customers. It's a pole barn with creosote treated hemlock poles, 1 x 12 native pine wall and roof sheathing and an attic truss roof system. The roofing is 18" red cedar perfections and the walls are 16" white cedar extras. The slab is for heavy equipment, 2' steel reinforced concrete at the perimeter and 6" steel reinforced at the body. We used antique granite for the form work to give it that historic look. All work was hand nailed.

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I built it shortly after I built this barn on the same property. This one is post and beam construction. I spent 6 weeks cutting and assembling this structure in a series of 5 vertical stations, each assembled lying flat on the first floor deck, one on top of the other. It was kinda funny as the neighbors had no idea what I was doing. And then, in one day, with the help of some friends and a crane, we raised and assembled the entire structure.

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Shortly after the work was complete on the pole barn, my customer and now good friend Ed, stuffed his Ford tractor in the back. And there it sat, all this time. Lately, I've been seeing the need for a dedicated mowing tractor so I decided to drop in on Ed and check out his old Ford.

On initial approach, it looks like we have Cat 1??? rear lift, rear PTO and dual hydraulic ports. That's a good start!

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Well, this says a lot. Ford 4000 with non louvered tins, I would guess 1968 - '75. Three cylinder diesel. Internal wet disc brakes. Power steering pump mounted reservoir.

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One thing that I notice is alot of yellow paint under the blue...

And over the ID tag too!!!

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It does have the 3000 front end and steering and I was able to make out what looks like "D1414C" on the model tag.

So, I'm gonna say its a '68 - '75 Ford Special Utility 4000

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Originally Posted by twoton

.....it looks like we have Cat 1???

According to the Operators Manual, the Ford Model 4000 three point lift is Category 2.

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So, I made some time today to mess around with Ed's tractor. I figured I would try bleeding the fuel system again before I condemned the injector pump. As with previous attempts, I checked to make sure there was adequate fuel in the tank. Opened the valve at the bottom of the tank. Loosened the bleed screw on the top of the filter housing until a steady flow of fuel, free of bubbles flowed and then tightened the nut. I then loosened the bleed nut on the side of the injector pump and cranked the engine till a steady stream of fuel sprayed from the fitting. All good so far, but now, I loosen the fitting on one of the injectors, crank the engine and nothing. No sign of any fuel. Throttle lever is wide open. Fuel shutoff is pushed into the dash. Fuel is returning into the tank. But no fuel to any of the injectors. I even added an electric fuel pump between the tank and the filter and still no fuel at the injectors.

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And here is something that's a bit confusing, the service manual says to open the bleed screw on the injector pump and loosen the injector lines at the injectors while cranking the engine to bleed the injector lines..


Any thoughts on this?