[AT] Ford and Ferguson overdrive speeds

[Herbert Metz]

Steve
Thank You for sharing.  I spent cosiderable time driving neighbors Ford
with a stepup; was only aware of the stepdown and others only recently. 
$100 installed was a decent price even back then.
Herb

> Indiana Robinson wrote:
> > Can anyone tell or point me to a chart of the ground speeds of a Ford
> > 9N a Ford 8N and a Ferguson TO series tractor with a Sherman
> > over-drive installed? How about the Hupp units? Our TO-20 had a Hupp
> > over/std/under-drive. It really seemed like flight speeds in road gear
> > to me as a kid.
> > -
> > On a side note our Hupp was defective. It kept eating clutches, the
> > fingers not the disk. The dealer worked on it several times. It went
> > back to the factory once and finally ended up in our storage loft
> > after its sixth clutch. The dealers shop foreman came and wanted to
> > buy it to install in someone else's Fergie to see it it was really the
> > unit.Sometime later we saw him and asked how it did. He shook his head
> > and said "It ate the new clutch". They sold a herd of those around
> > here and that was the only one we ever heard of that ate clutch
> > fingers. It always had free travel and we never "rode" our clutches.
> > When you would open it up the fingers were burnt and so was the
> > throw-out bearing... I assume that the mounts were off somewhere but
> > it always seemed to be working OK and shifted well until the clutch
> > started growling when you pushed it down. They even tried two
> > different pressure plate assemblies. ???


> Should be able to find that info here.
> http://home.att.net/~jmsmith45/sherman.htm
> Steve W.