Massey Ferguson 500 & 515 Combines

[ButcherBoy]

Thought some of you chaps might be interested in seeing these photos.

The 500 (1966) has a 6.354 engine:

The 515: Any ideas what engine is in the 515?

 

[Refco]

I think that the 515 has the same engine, does it not?

I used to have a 410. Lovely combine and a cracking sample.

 

[ButcherBoy]

I'm not too sure to be honest Refco. On the 500 the engine was stamped at the top with "SIX 354". When I checked the 515 I looked for the engine number in the same place, but there wasn't anything...

I'll go back out and see what I can find.

 

[John 1594]

think the earliest 6.354s had an alloy rocker cover? Know the engine in our 525 has a pressed steel job, also has a spin on oil filter as opposed to the canister ones on the 500/10/15s. Basically the same combine but with different styling, ive used bits off a 515 to repair ours before. Sure all 500 series were 6 pots, just the 400s that were 4 cyl, think they were an A4-300, a descendant of the perkins L4 possibly

 

[ButcherBoy]

I can only see these numbers below the manifold...

 

[Easystart ED40]

A6 354 ENGINE
http://www.threadgoldfarms.co.uk/515.htm

 

[Red Fred]

I have a 400 combine and a spare engine from a 410 (both are the same A4.300 as John 1594 says). I was wondering if anything else used them as it seems a shame to have them sitting idle. I've never seen that engine in any Fergie tractors, so I don't know if they are worth saving.

 

[Easystart ED40]

Are all the fuel pumps sitting that way up on these engines ? I have not seen that set up before .

 

[ButcherBoy]

Hmm...

The reason I have my doubts about the type of engine for the 515 is because, if I remember correctly, it's had an engine transplant at some time in its life.

I'm unsure what to do with the pair in all honesty. It's a shame to see them sat there slowly rotting away. Is there much interest in the market for such things?

 

[Easystart ED40]

Hmm...

The reason I have my doubts about the type of engine for the 515 is because, if I remember correctly, it's had an engine transplant at some time in its life.

I'm unsure what to do with the pair in all honesty. It's a shame to see them sat there slowly rotting away. Is there much interest in the market for such things?

Does this look the same
http://www.abilenemachine.com/used-massey-ferguson-1100-engine-E-7480.html

 

[ButcherBoy]

I've just compared your photo to my photo above and they are very similar, so hopefully it will be a 6.354. $3500 though?

If I get chance tomorrow, I'm going to get a rag to it and try and find an engine number just to be certain.

 

[Easystart ED40]

Good luck with that then

 

[MF-ANDY]

500 and 515 should both have the 6.354 engine. the serial number of the engine is stamped into the flat surface of the block where the injection pump mounts. the 400 /415 does have the 4.300 engine. a development of this engine is the 4.318 which can be found in the 1080/595/698 tractors

 

[uztrac]

Question,Were the 500 series combines the last built at Kilmarnock ?

 

[John 1594]

no, my 525 was certainly built there, as were the 625s, larger machines such as the 750/760 were built overseas, Brantford in Canada? Stand to be corrected on that one. Whatever happens, all those machines were a 1000 times better than the meagre offerings that came from the Dronningborg line of parentage

 

[Red Fred]

Our 400 always produced a perfect sample, the only problem was it seemed a pig of a thing to work on around the engine bay, gear selectors etc. Maybe it was my clumsy hands but I was always skinning my knuckles and cursing when it could have been built so much simpler. Having said that, it's lasted nearly 50 years and is still ready to go in the shed, the only thing that stopped it was the lack of anything to harvest in the last couple of years.

 

[John 1594]

Our 400 always produced a perfect sample, the only problem was it seemed a pig of a thing to work on around the engine bay, gear selectors etc. Maybe it was my clumsy hands but I was always skinning my knuckles and cursing when it could have been built so much simpler. Having said that, it's lasted nearly 50 years and is still ready to go in the shed, the only thing that stopped it was the lack of anything to harvest in the last couple of years.

All down to the superior re-threshing system they had (compared to light green combines of the time). Ive had a fair bit of trouble with the gear cables on ours, they seem to stretch and wear quite badly over time. Side mounted engine has its plus points, mainly that the drivers platform isnt placed directly in the middle of the machine, which means that all the dust and dirt thrown up by the intake auger fingers goes over the top of the engine, instead of getting thrown up in the drivers face.

 

[MF-ANDY]

i notice the multi flow has been removed from that 515

 

[John 1594]

i notice the multi flow has been removed from that 515

lot of people didnt like the multi flow, it was a sod for blocking up in anything other than perfect conditions, our 525 had one, that got scrapped many moons ago

 

[Refco]

Question,Were the 500 series combines the last built at Kilmarnock ?

I think that the SUPER II models were the last to come out of Kilmarnock. Around the year 1980, or thereabouts.