new member an owner of older MF165

[foxy87lady]

new member from West Virginia an hav- bought an older model MF165 tractor. will have several questions and things I am looking for to post here. by chance found you all while looking for info bout my older Troy Bilt tiller. Any an all help will be appreciated an thank you in advance. grew up working a 500+ acre farm into the late 80s. now after 25 years, have a place of my own an have a lot of work to do. was very careful looking for a tractor an knew this tractor was the one when I saw it an heard it run. has a few minor issues an am working on them. got the leak on the gas tank fixed, finally. now need to figure out why the lights don't work right, some do work at least. need to rewire whole tractor as wires arent good overall. it needs jumped now when go to start it after sitting. got a loader gonna get supposed to fit this tractor an is heavy duty. just have to figure out how to hook up. but is generally a very good tractor an heavy as all get out. look forward to using it for work coming up. still lokking for a {here called different names by different people}, but a box scraper blade with possible rippers on it. again look forward to the help. thank you, foxy87lady

 

[Muhammad]

Welcome to TBN.

 

[Briana03]

Hello & WELCOME to TractorByNet.com!

I have moved your thread to the Massey Ferguson Owning/Operating Forum. You'll get a better response there.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Welcome!

1st place to start looking for light problems is make certain every bulb has good ground. ESPECIALLY so with any fender mounted lights. Where the fenders bolt to the axle trumpets is your first suspect. Make a long "jumper" wire, attach it to a sure ground, and test each light with that wire as it's ground. If that doesn't do the trick, move on to other possibilities.

Your wiring might be 45+ years old. By 35 years, the insulation on the wiring on my '71 MF150 was getting brittle. I lucked on to one of the very last complete wiring harness for my 150 that AGCO had in it's inventory. So I'm back to 5 year old wiring! Check continuity on each individual wire. Check every connection. THere's a number of snap lock connectors used to hook various "optional lighting" wiring packages on the 100 series Masseys. Over the years, I've found a few of them that were corroded bad enough they had to be replaced.

Oh....Make certain the BULB is good....I've spent hours chasing a gremlin when a new $5 light bulb would finally solve the crisis. It's WAY too easy to do.

 

[foxy87lady]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Didn't' think of the bulbs. Yes some of the wiring is suspect, I agree, as well as the connectors. Used a tester light on the connectors BUT didn't check the socket of the bulbs. Will do this within the next week. Still have to figure out how to adjust the throtle rod as won't say at idle nor will it go high, but can get the RPM up an down all the way at the carburator where the throtle rod comes in. looks like have to adjust the nuts on the rod along the way. getting it done slowly while working at same time. still looking for a box blade with rippers and a also tiller? to do a large garden without getting a plow AND a disk. Looking around where I am over a large area for GOOD used that doesn't cost a fortune. again Thank You for the great suggestions.