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10-11-1999 16:29:56

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I have a friend who told me that a N series tractor had basically the same engine as they put in the Model A vehicle. Is he correct?

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Sam Wammack (Mo.)

10-12-1999 20:37:56

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Re: 8N engine in reply to AJ, 10-11-1999 16:29:56

I had a 1934 Ford pickup truck once, and the 8N engine reminds me more of that than of a Model A. That truck had an 85-hp flathead V-8 with a two-cap distributor mounted in front, and the 8N engine is a lot like taking half the block, one head, and one bank of cylinders from that engine, then turning it upright.

With the N tractors, Ford obviously drew on some of their tooling and design from earlier cars. I think the radiator cap is the same on the 8N and the '34 truck, and I believe the 8N front wheels would fit some early Ford cars or trucks also.

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ZANE

10-11-1999 16:39:08

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Re: 8N engine in reply to AJ, 10-11-1999 16:29:56

Not exactly!

The A had babbe mains and rods.

The N has inserted main and rods.

The A had the distributor in the middle of the engine.

The N has the distributor at the very front of the engine or at the right side of the front of the engine.

The A was timed by removing a dowel from the timing cover and placing it in a hole and then the engine was turned by hand crank till the dowel fell in a hole in the cam gear.Then you set the points to just break by loosening a big screw under the rotor and then turning the rotor till the points break.

The N is times by moving the adjusting screw on the front dist or turnting the side dist untill the points bread with the #1 piston at TDC.

I don't know of anything that is the same on a model A and an N tractor engine. Even the spark plugs are very different.

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10-11-1999 18:03:13

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Re: Re: 8N engine in reply to ZANE, 10-11-1999 16:39:08

The only similarity is that they are both flathead 4 cylinder engines. They also sound sorta the same, due to the flathead configuration. The story is that the engine was designed by Adolph Eckert,using the Mercury 95-HP V-8 geometry, "sliced in half." That's a rather simplistic description, because the process involved a complete retooling and casting, not a physical halving of the engine. Eckert was said to have used as many standard Mercury parts as possible.(Leffingwell, p124.)The same engine was used in some Ford trucks and early jeeps.

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Ron(wa)

10-11-1999 17:52:07

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Re: Re: 8N engine in reply to ZANE, 10-11-1999 16:39:08

They were both flatheads ..... .

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