Ford engine.

David.

David.

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Mixed Farmer
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J11 M40
6600 proper cooked its engine on the drier, and has stood for some time since.
In the old days it was easy, pick up the phone to Paul Chattel who would let you have a new cross block one in a Ford crate for about £2700.
Anyone got a contact for anyone who does similar nowadays, please. I know about Timik.
Even if I knew of a trustworthy engineering firm locally, I expect £2k wouldn’t fix the old one.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
 
Wellytrack

Wellytrack

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David. said:
6600 proper cooked its engine on the drier, and has stood for some time since.
In the old days it was easy, pick up the phone to Paul Chattel who would let you have a new cross block one in a Ford crate for about £2700.
Anyone got a contact for anyone who does similar nowadays, please. I know about Timik.
Even if I knew of a trustworthy engineering firm locally, I expect £2k wouldn’t fix the old one.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
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40 series powerstar used to be the job for these. Quite a lot of 7610’s were repowered with 7740 engines and went very well indeed.
 
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forblue

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David. said:
6600 proper cooked its engine on the drier, and has stood for some time since.
In the old days it was easy, pick up the phone to Paul Chattel who would let you have a new cross block one in a Ford crate for about £2700.
Anyone got a contact for anyone who does similar nowadays, please. I know about Timik.
Even if I knew of a trustworthy engineering firm locally, I expect £2k wouldn’t fix the old one.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
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If you do fit a 40ser eng give me a shout as i have somewhere a list of parts needed for conversion as i did one many, many years ago for fords.
 
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ford 7810

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reasonably straightforward job bored and new liners set of pistons presuming it cooked it self through heat and not lack of oil, labour is the expensive part ,spurious Parts are cheap compared to original parts.
 
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crashbox

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Livestock Farmer
David. said:
6600 proper cooked its engine on the drier, and has stood for some time since.
In the old days it was easy, pick up the phone to Paul Chattel who would let you have a new cross block one in a Ford crate for about £2700.
Anyone got a contact for anyone who does similar nowadays, please. I know about Timik.
Even if I knew of a trustworthy engineering firm locally, I expect £2k wouldn’t fix the old one.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
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Ron Greet may have a used item kicking about?
 
ACEngineering

ACEngineering

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Location
Oxon
David. said:
6600 proper cooked its engine on the drier, and has stood for some time since.
In the old days it was easy, pick up the phone to Paul Chattel who would let you have a new cross block one in a Ford crate for about £2700.
Anyone got a contact for anyone who does similar nowadays, please. I know about Timik.
Even if I knew of a trustworthy engineering firm locally, I expect £2k wouldn’t fix the old one.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
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Can get new short blocks from vap, bepco and sparex etc, obvoiusly non genuine but they been selling them a long time now so must do the job.
 
David.

David.

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J11 M40
Just for feedback.
Thanks to M. Robinson Tractors, good to deal with.
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David.

David.

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J11 M40
Saw it running in a WhatsApp video before removal in donor tractor.. which looked at a casual glance tidier than my old 6600.
 
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David.

David.

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Mixed Farmer
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J11 M40
You may jest :ROFLMAO: .
As i was telling Grandson yesterday, that was our "big" tractor when it came secondhand in 1986. At the end of drilling it was washed off, and parked up for the winter, just like the combine. It was deemed to be far to decadent to use such a big tractor for winter chores.
 
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AlCapone

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ploughman1963 said:
@david
Any chance of a clue as to the cost? The engine in my 655C digger has just cracked through an oil gallery so looking for easiest way to sort a replacement. PM if you prefer .
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Is it possible that there’s wear in the digger frame or some bolts coming loose somewhere allowing flexing in the engine resulting in cracked block
 
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