Massey Ferguson

Thanks lads. @max ya it shouldn’t be too bad at that, it was a brilliant tractor, only thing it ever needed and got was the cowel around the fan after it got dry and broke apart. The tyres are “650’s” on the back, if you measure them with a tape they measure at about 700. They were always way wider than any of the other 650’s, the lads wanted me to put them on the 76 before we traded it
 
That’s a fair bus.
 

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Anyone know the correct front wheel track settings for a t3 6480, toe in /toe out?
Traditionally older front wheel drive cars were toed slightly out as the driven torque would automatically toe them back in upon acceleration. I’ve yet to see a tractor with tyres worn on the insides from too much toe out.
 
I've always set both cars and tractors with zero toe or both wheels dead in line with each other and I've yet to see them wear uneven. I paid a garage 50 quid years ago to do the tracking on a mark ll Carina for me and sweet jaysus I could have risen drills for beet such was the toe in they put on it. I did it myself after and everything else besides and no bother.
 
It’s easy enough to make up a fairly simple tool to check tracking on cars, basically weld up a [ shape which then has a bolt off either of the end so that they point out the way, get under the car and adjust bolts out till they are just barely touching the insides of the tire at the front then check at the back keep checking back and forwards whilst adjusting the tracking. The car needs to be sitting on its wheels so that the suspension is loaded and you need to roll it back and forwards after any adjustments so that the tires are sitting naturally and not with a slight pull on them which could affect it.

basically like below, the green bit being 2 bolts, the red a solid frame, the idea of the crank is so that you can get up to the mid point of the wheels around the chassis etc. Can’t see why a similar idea wouldn’t work for a tractor just would need to be a bit on the larger side! 5DA61BA2-E295-4D88-889F-87A62EEBD06C.jpeg
 
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