Pulling a sleeve on a ford 8n engine block
Pulling a sleeve on a ford 8n engine block



Pulling a sleeve on a ford 8n engine block
“I always liked tractors,” Harless said as he relaxed in the orderly shop area behind his home in northwest Tuscaloosa County. “I guess I always wanted to farm and never got the opportunity.”
Harless likes tractors enough to own about 50 of them – he's really not sure how many because he's not counting – ranging from pint-sized lawnmowers to powerful machines designed to pull plows through heavy soil. Most are from the 1940s and '50s and he collects and lovingly restores them.
“This is a rare tractor,” Harless said, pointing to a green and yellow Oliver that runs on narrow, bulldozer-like tracks instead of wheels. “I lucked up on that one in Cullman (Ala.).''
A retired general and electrical contractor, Harless once bought and resold tractors at auction, picking them up in the Midwest and hauling them as far south as Florida to go on the block. What he buys now aren't for sale.
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His favorite restoration job of all is a Ford 8N tractor with a “flathead” V-8 engine from a 1953 Mercury sedan installed. It's a custom job, although not entirely historically inaccurate because Ford originally made a kit to allow that engine to be |
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