Super Major 6 cylinder

On the whole, if a good conversion took place, the rear end can take most of what is thrown at it. I have seen a standard rear end fitted with a Rolls - Royce Merlin engine of around 1500 HP that was used for tractor pulling with no problems.

bob

According to Stuart Gibbard's book, Ford of France offered 6 cylinder variations of the Ford 5000. These might be interesting to take a look at. These were conversions made by EVA in Belgium (Willy Everard, Andenne, Belgium) These were ordered by the Ford company and sold through Ford dealers in Belgium, Germany and France. Nedalo of Uithoorn in Holland sold conversions for the Super Major using the 590E engine. Stenderup maskinforretning ApS (Sweden) built the Super 6 with 401 engine. This was a two wheel drive tractor. The 401 engine was used in the 8600 tractor, but in this case was mated to the 7600 back end. Built in the late 1970s. The book says County and Roadless also built a few 2wheel drive tractors with 6 cyl engines for export only. Ford opposed this because the transmissions couldn't take it, and they competed with the standard 7000. J. J. Thomas kept doing the conversions, but had to buy second hand tractors for his raw stock. About 100 were sold. The Doe used Ford 5000 with the Belgian conversion parts and a County heavy duty clutch, but got away with only a handful before Ford stopped them. There were a lot of others on a small scale basis. They used the power for pto work and for fast running on the roads.