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Farmall Repowered With Chevy Engine
“I bought a 1937 Farmall F-30 tractor minus the engine for $175 and then installed a Chevy 350 cu. in., V-8 engine that I had previously rebuilt. There were a lot of challenges in making this conversion,” says Glenn Buxengard, Spring Grove, Minn.
The new engine has about 100 more hp than the original o
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Farmall Repowered With Chevy Engine ENGINES “I bought a 1937 Farmall F-30 tractor minus the engine for $175 and then installed a Chevy 350 cu in V-8 engine that I had previously rebuilt There were a lot of challenges in making this conversion ” says Glenn Buxengard Spring Grove Minn
The new engine has about 100 more hp than the original one “The engine really gets hot ” says Buxengard
To fit the engine into the tractor frame he had to discard the fuel pump and install an electric pump and a mini starter He also bolted the Chevy clutch and bell housing to the Farmall transmission “I cut a 1-in thick donut out of some plate steel welded the donut to the plate and installed a sealed bearing Then I hooked up an input shaft from a Chevy manual transmission and ran a short driveshaft to the Farmall transmission ” says Buxengard
The fan on the V-8 engine sat lower than the Farmall’s radiator and was therefore inadequate “I tried using an electric fan to cool the radiator but it didn’t have enough capacity So I built a tower out of 1/4 by 1 1/2-in strap iron and installed the Chevy fan with bearings then ran a belt to the tractor’s crankshaft pulley ” says Buxengard
He couldn’t find a step-up transmission so he made one using the input shaft above the tractor’s driveshaft with no 60 roller chain and sprockets running a shaft under the tractor that hooks up to the pto “I leave the transmission in neutral and shift the pto in gear to put it in road gear One time I revved it up to 3 000 rpm’s and went 30 mph but I didn’t dare open up any farther ” says Buxengard
He installed chrome pipes on both sides of the tractor fastening them to manifold headers that he turned upside down “I bought the headers from a company that specializes in race cars I had to turn the headers upside down so I could extend the pipes upward instead of down ” explains Buxengard “I installed homemade baffles inside the pipes to reduce the noise level but if I open the throttle up the engine still really makes a lot of noise ”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Glenn Buxengard 129 3rd Ave S W Spring Grove Minn 55974 ph 507 498-3263
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