Top link ID

[PARod]

I got this top link with a JD implement I bought on an auction. The blue paint suggests a Ford product if it's not aftermarket. It is stamped Made in England on both ends. Can anyone tell me what vintage and what model it may be associated with?

Thanks.

 

[Keith Williams]

I got this top link with a JD implement I bought on an auction. The blue paint suggests a Ford product if it's not aftermarket. It is stamped Made in England on both ends. Can anyone tell me what vintage and what model it may be associated with?View attachment 117558 Thanks.

I had one like that with my 1973 Ford 7000 row crop. It wore out long ago!
The size of the ends would determine the tractors it could have shipped with.
Cat 1 ends would have shipped with 2000 or 3000.
Cat 2 ends would have shipped with 5000 or 7000.
A 4000 can have cat 1 or 2 ends. I would guess it to have a cat 2 top link.
A 8000 or 9000 would have cat 3 ends I would guess.

I can't tell from the pic what size the one you have is.
The length of the top link is different also; a 4000 would have had a longer top link than a 2000/3000.
HTH
Keith

 

[shaun wallace]

Could very well be OEM for 2/3000 and may have been in service parts for Hundred Series

 

[paul]

Same design as my cat 2 top link with my Ford 5000.

Yours looks like a cat 1 size so probably the smaller tractors the others mentioned.

Paul

 

[PARod]

Thank you all for this very helpful information. The top link has Cat 2 on the tractor end and Cat 1 on the implement end and is about 25 inches pin-to-pin when fully retracted, so it probably went with a 4000.

 

[Fordfarmer]

Thank you all for this very helpful information. The top link has Cat 2 on the tractor end and Cat 1 on the implement end and is about 25 inches pin-to-pin when fully retracted, so it probably went with a 4000.

Sounds just like the one that came with my 4600.

 

[Keith Williams]

Sounds just like the one that came with my 4600.

Fordfarmer,
I didn't know but guessed that the 8000/9000 series used cat 3. Was I correct?
Thank you!
Keith

 

[Sean in PA]

Fordfarmer,
I didn't know but guessed that the 8000/9000 series used cat 3. Was I correct?
Thank you!
Keith

The parts drawing lists two top links for the 8000 & 9000. One is cat 2 and the other is cat 3. Both are probably cat 3 at the tractor end.

 

[Fordfarmer]

Fordfarmer,
I didn't know but guessed that the 8000/9000 series used cat 3. Was I correct?
Thank you!
Keith

I think cat. 3 was optional on the 9000/9600. The 9600 I had was cat. 2. My TW35 is cat 3.

 

[Fordfarmer]

Fordfarmer,
I didn't know but guessed that the 8000/9000 series used cat 3. Was I correct?
Thank you!
Keith

Got some of my sales literature out. Shows 9000 and 9600 as both being cat.3 (been 25 years since I owned a 9600... guess my memory isn't good enough) and 8000 and 8600 are cat 2.