Tractor Spare Parts Blog

23rd February 2024

Identifying the different types of oil filter on Nuffield Tractors

I have just come across the article below which is an advert taken from ‘The Country Gentleman’ magazine, which is an American agricultural magazine which ran between 1852 and 1955. I am not sure which year this page from the magazine was printed in, but we do know that Purolator filters were founded in New York in 1923. My guess based on the models of tractors in the other parts of the magazine is that this advert was from 1954.

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16th February 2024

Repairing a leak on the PTO selector lever – a simple O-ring fix

The eagle-eyed of you may have noticed that earlier this week I put up a couple of new videos on our Tractor Spare Parts Ltd You Tube channel. One of these videos showed Andy pointing to our own Universal 3 and showing where the PTO selector lever is to the left-hand side of the seat. We had a customer who had a leak on this PTO selector shaft and wanted to know how easy it is to stop the leak. I thought that this was a very good question and thought I would document this in this week’s blog

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26th January 2024

Cold Start – A suitable blog for these cold days

As I am writing this blog, we are at the beginning of a cold snap here in the UK. It might not be as cold as many other parts of the world who would laugh in our face at -6 oC, but it is cold enough.

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5th January 2024

Exciting announcement – Technical Information Archives is now live

I have been a bit quiet on the blogs recently. Life takes over, and I have to catch up on things that I have not done before end of year deadlines etc The nights are long and it has been very wet and cold which means jobs around the farm and house just take longer.

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27th October 2023

‘Wet’ Cylinder Liner Cavitation Problems

We are always speaking to customers about problems with engines, the reasons why they are experiencing problems with their engines and how we can help to get their BMC engine or Leyland engine back up and running. One thing that we hear a lot is water in the sump, which forms a milky solution and suggests the engine needs attention.

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3rd October 2023

BMC Nuffield Tractors made by the LONG company - An American rebranding of the Nuffield tractors.

Nuffield tractors were made by Nuffield here in the UK, in Bathgate Scotland. However, these same tractors have been rebranded by different companies throughout the world under different names and it is these different names, particularly the models that were exported to USA, that I am going to explore today.

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15th September 2023

The rule of 9 - Valve clearance adjustment on 4-cylinder engines

Once you have done an engine rebuild, reconditioned your cylinder head or even once you have replaced the head gasket on an older tractor, there will be settings that you need to make on your engine in order for it to run properly. The best place to find these settings is in the workshop manual where the torque settings and settings procedures is laid out in a nice format. You can find all of the available Nuffield, Leyland and Marshall workshop manuals on our website under the Tractor Workshop Manuals and Handbooks section.

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30th August 2023

Decals

When you get to putting the decals on the bonnet of your Leyland tractor, you know that the restoration is nearing the end. After painting the decals are the final finishing touches to the exterior of the tractor and they can make a difference.

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14th August 2023

Which way the clutch plate goes into your Leyland tractor

This is a question that we are always being asked. Which way does the clutch plate go into the housing on my Leyland tractor? It is a good question as putting it in the incorrect way can lead to the clutch failing to clear.

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19th July 2023

Fuelling problems and diagnosis in the Nuffield, Leyland and Marshall tractors

It is always frustrating when your tractor stops, and you think it is due to a fuelling problem. Where do you start with solving this frustrating issue? What do you look at first? How do you even know if it is a problem with the fuel? What can be the causing these problems? Here I hope to give you an idea of where to start with this diagnosis and repair guide regarding when you think you may have a problem with your fuelling system.

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