Ford 5000 Frankenstein

[Bern]

I stumbled across these YouTube videos of a guy putting a 7.8L Ford truck engine in a 5000. He's not done yet but it's been a huge amount of work thus far. These videos are hours long, and I'm not about to watch every minute, but I have been able to scan through them on 2x speed and get a sense of what he's doing. With the amount of obstacles this guy has run into thus far, I would think it has him starting to question his own sanity. I'll give him kudos for his persistence, but he's going to be really upset the first time he starts pulling hard with it and shells out the transmission. There's a reason why a 7000 trans is heavier than a 5000.

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[SkipperII]

Thus the old adage; "Just because you can do it, doesn't mean that you should!!"

 

[Fordfarmer]

I stumbled across these YouTube videos of a guy putting a 7.8L Ford truck engine in a 5000. He's not done yet but it's been a huge amount of work thus far. These videos are hours long, and I'm not about to watch every minute, but I have been able to scan through them on 2x speed and get a sense of what he's doing. With the amount of obstacles this guy has run into thus far, I would think it has him starting to question his own sanity. I'll give him kudos for his persistence, but he's going to be really upset the first time he starts pulling hard with it and shells out the transmission. There's a reason why a 7000 trans is heavier than a 5000.

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The year before the Genesis series was released, a dealer from central WI had a pulling tractor entered in tractor pulls at many county fairs. It was based on a 7000 - not a 5000 - with a turbo 456. Don't know if it was intercooled or not. No 3-point, but it did retain the Dual Power. I don't know how long the transmission and rear end held up, but it went down the track with authority.

 

[Bern]

The year before the Genesis series was released, a dealer from central WI had a pulling tractor entered in tractor pulls at many county fairs. It was based on a 7000 - not a 5000 - with a turbo 456. Don't know if it was intercooled or not. No 3-point, but it did retain the Dual Power. I don't know how long the transmission and rear end held up, but it went down the track with authority.

Short occasional runs down a track at the county fair is one thing, pulling hard all day long in a field is quite another. Just think about oil temps and oil breakdown at extreme temps. In addition to transmission concerns, I also heard him say that he planned to pull a larger mower of some sort with it. Anything over 100 HP is going to smoke that PTO clutch, which is a good thing because if it didn't, it would twist the live drive PTO shaft inside the transmission in half.

Then there's the issue of cooling. If you watch the very end of the 2nd video, he still has yet to mount a fan and radiator, and there's no room for either, never mind the fact that not even a 7000 radiator would stand a chance at keeping it cool. I don't think he has a good grasp of the future troubles he's going to run into. I think a year from now he'll be saying to himself "If I only knew then what I know now - what a colossal waste of time that was". But again, kudos to him for his persistence and ingenuity.

 

[showcrop]

Years ago a friend put together an Oliford puller out of an Oliver 70 and a Ford 300 six. Due to the Oliver tub frame it was a pretty easy straight forward conversion.

 

[tractorford]

Ive seen those vids as well-- salute to that fellar for having the wurrrwithalll to go through with it--

 

[Bern]

I stumbled across these YouTube videos of a guy putting a 7.8L Ford truck engine in a 5000. He's not done yet but it's been a huge amount of work thus far. These videos are hours long, and I'm not about to watch every minute, but I have been able to scan through them on 2x speed and get a sense of what he's doing. With the amount of obstacles this guy has run into thus far, I would think it has him starting to question his own sanity. I'll give him kudos for his persistence, but he's going to be really upset the first time he starts pulling hard with it and shells out the transmission. There's a reason why a 7000 trans is heavier than a 5000.

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Part 3 of this project is now out there.

Ford 5000 7.8 6-Cylinder Turbo Diesel Swap (PART 3) First Run!

Once again, this guy is an amazing fabricator and craftsman. It's just too bad that he won't be able to utilize all that power.

 

[SkipperII]

Heck; When we would put an M&W turbo on them, we had to put solution filled, oversize rear tires, and several wheel weights, on them. Then we had to put at least six weights on the front, so that you could steer them. Rear wheel studs suffered greatly, under the added torque.

 

[showcrop]

Pulling tractors don't generally work that hard. Just faster.