Ford 5000 Questions

samsclub91

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Hello,

Been browsing the forum for awhile and this is my first post. I'm looking to buy my first tractor for our property and came across a Ford 5000 w/ loader for $8,500 that claims to be in great shape with a lot of new parts. I don't know a lot about tractors and am trying to determine if this is a good buy or not.

The main things I'm needing to do are some basic loader/bucket work around the property, move round bales, and bushog. I'd need to get a hay spear and would like to have some pallet forks in the future too. I've also contemplated getting into making hay for myself and some family nearby which I think this tractor has the horsepower to do.

Hopefully this isn't against the rules but I'm going to post a link to the craigslist ad that has some info and pics: https://carbondale.craigslist.org/grd/d/vienna-1968-ford-5000-diesel-tractor/7767008710.html#

I guess my (very uneducated) questions are:
  • Things to look for or worry about?
  • Can anyone identify the loader from the pic? It doesn't look like the Ford 772 loader that would have been original.
I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts or input from someone who knows a little more about these machines! While I don't know much about tractors I'm very comfortable working and vehicles and fully expect to spend some time wrenching on an older piece of machinery like this.

Thanks!

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Hello,

Been browsing the forum for awhile and this is my first post. I'm looking to buy my first tractor for our property and came across a Ford 5000 w/ loader for $8,500 that claims to be in great shape with a lot of new parts. I don't know a lot about tractors and am trying to determine if this is a good buy or not.

The main things I'm needing to do are some basic loader/bucket work around the property, move round bales, and bushog. I'd need to get a hay spear and would like to have some pallet forks in the future too. I've also contemplated getting into making hay for myself and some family nearby which I think this tractor has the horsepower to do.

Hopefully this isn't against the rules but I'm going to post a link to the craigslist ad that has some info and pics: https://carbondale.craigslist.org/grd/d/vienna-1968-ford-5000-diesel-tractor/7767008710.html#

I guess my (very uneducated) questions are:
  • Things to look for or worry about?
  • Can anyone identify the loader from the pic? It doesn't look like the Ford 772 loader that would have been original.
I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts or input from someone who knows a little more about these machines! While I don't know much about tractors I'm very comfortable working and vehicles and fully expect to spend some time wrenching on an older piece of machinery like this.

Thanks!

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I will say check the serial number as I think it might be a newer tractor than a 1968 model/ I had a 5000 that was a 68model and it still had the steel grill, mine was a gas and had the smaller engine,That has a plastic grill so that is why I think it might be a newer tractor, Not sure when they changed from steel to plastic.. I had 2 4000 Fords one was a 65 and steel grill, the other was a 68 and had the steel grill but my 69 5000 still had a steel grill so that is why I am asking you to veryify the serial number to determin if it is not a slightly newer tractor.. It would be a later bodel than the 5000 I had and with more horsepower. Mine had the 15.5 x 38 rear tires and the 7:50x 18 front tires. If you do get it and need to buy parts and ask for a 68 year you might bet parts for a steel grill model that would not fit your plastic grill tractor. The plastic grill was used untill end of 5000 production in the 70's.
 
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I will say check the serial number as I think it might be a newer tractor than a 1968 model/ I had a 5000 that was a 68model and it still had the steel grill, mine was a gas and had the smaller engine,That has a plastic grill so that is why I think it might be a newer tractor, Not sure when they changed from steel to plastic.. I had 2 4000 Fords one was a 65 and steel grill, the other was a 68 and had the steel grill but my 69 5000 still had a steel grill so that is why I am asking you to veryify the serial number to determin if it is not a slightly newer tractor.. It would be a later bodel than the 5000 I had and with more horsepower. Mine had the 15.5 x 38 rear tires and the 7:50x 18 front tires. If you do get it and need to buy parts and ask for a 68 year you might bet parts for a steel grill model that would not fit your plastic grill tractor. The plastic grill was used untill end of 5000 production in the 70's.
 
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I will say check the serial number as I think it might be a newer tractor than a 1968 model/ I had a 5000 that was a 68model and it still had the steel grill, mine was a gas and had the smaller engine,That has a plastic grill so that is why I think it might be a newer tractor, Not sure when they changed from steel to plastic.. I had 2 4000 Fords one was a 65 and steel grill, the other was a 68 and had the steel grill but my 69 5000 still had a steel grill so that is why I am asking you to veryify the serial number to determin if it is not a slightly newer tractor.. It would be a later bodel than the 5000 I had and with more horsepower. Mine had the 15.5 x 38 rear tires and the 7:50x 18 front tires. If you do get it and need to buy parts and ask for a 68 year you might bet parts for a steel grill model that would not fit your plastic grill tractor. The plastic grill was used untill end of 5000 production in the 70's.
That one had a late model grill rigged up in a early model grill shell
 
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Probably a tractor trader. Try to look past the new paint. Maybe all good as described.

I believe the '68 has the smaller engine. I'd want to see receipts for the rebuild. If true and complete, that's a large part of the value.
Loader is not 'easy-off', and appears to have lots of welding. Fenders an ROPs homemade.

James
Other thing is front end wear and tear. Front end bearings and kingpins, steering linkage all get a workout especially if the pervious owner had no idea as to why they make grease guns.......check to see if it steers smoothly from lock to lock...fully left to fully right, and work the steering wheel back and forth watching the tire movement vs steering wheel movement.

On Fords, over the years I have had a pair of 4 cylinder 4000s and one 2000 (tractors that followed the hundred series Fords), 3000, 3600, 3910, 4610, (3 of those currently in use).....obviously they have served me well, work hard easy to fix, parts readily available at a reasonable cost, plus a TO-20 and a pair of MF 35s....very similar in design and functionality, and all the other reasons why you do what you do.
 
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Other thing is front end wear and tear. Front end bearings and kingpins, steering linkage all get a workout especially if the pervious owner had no idea as to why they make grease guns.......check to see if it steers smoothly from lock to lock...fully left to fully right, and work the steering wheel back and forth watching the tire movement vs steering wheel movement.
Grease guns??? Must be some new fangled invention. Have to check that out.🙂
 
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Update:

I've talked to the individual selling it and he recently bought it off another guy who did the overhaul.

The story is the guy who did the overhaul didn't really need the tractor but bought it anyway, rebuilt the engine and did some other work then had problems with the loader and bucket, got frustrated, and called the current owner for help. Sounds like they're both old tractor guys who know each other. Anyway, the current owner ended up buying it and fixing the loader by removing the two mismatched cylinders and installing the single cylinder that is pictured. He has no idea what kind of loader it is but doesn't believe its a Ford loader and said its very well attached. He did say the loader is front pump driven and doesn't run off the tractor hydraulics. I don't know if that's good or bad.

I'm going to go look at it later today after work. I confirmed it does have the 8speed trans and not the select-o-speed which would have probably been a non-starter for me. The current owner offered to put me in contact with the guy who did the rebuild which I'll probably take him up on if everything seems ok after seeing it in person. I'll also try to check the radiator as @DRussell suggested.

Thanks for the replies so far!
If you buy it, usually the first thing one does is to change the fluids. If all that works out, don't use reguar antifreeze. Go to an OTR truck stop (they are much cheaper than other sources due to their volume) and get their HD antifreeze that has the anti-cylinder wall pitting additive....forget the name of that additive but the container will say so......besides OTR truck dealers/shops have no reason to use any other kind. Some is already diluted 50-50 and some is concentrate so you mix it with "distilled" water half and half.

Also engine oil is 15w-40 C (Compressiion) rated...wally world sells it at a great price. Delvac, Rotella T to name a couple or WW sells their own brand which I have started using in my older tractors and had zero problems. If the 5000 has "wet" brakes you need to go to premium hydraulic fluid which has an anti-chatter additive. I don't know of any other need for premium in that tractor and regular grade THD (transmission, hydraulic, differential) fluid will work and save you some money.
 
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Grease guns??? Must be some new fangled invention. Have to check that out.🙂
Its a device that contains a removable cylinder of grease containing a pump handle and a Zerk fitting for connection to Zerk male fittings on equipment. Growing up that's what they were and I never heard of them called anything else.........besides its a gun......it shoots grease, not bullets. Ha Ha.

Back when I was a teen and getting into a love of engines and associated equipment on through at least a decade, the removable cartridge wasn't available. To fill a gun, you took a tub of grease and a wooden paint stirrer stick and dug into the tub, came out with a wad of grease, mashed it into the cylinder and repeated the process till mostly full. When I saw my first gun that took cartridges I was totally ELATED as that original process was a total PIA.
 
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