We had a '64 4000 S-O-S, it was a great tractor for its size, not sure about a 3 bottom plow in some conditions, but we ran a 535 ford mower conditioner, M-F side delivery mounted rake, pto powered, 532 ford baler, front mount factory snow plow, 5' ford rotary mower, 2 bottom plow, 6' disc, New Idea manure spreader, all with no problems.
The 4 cylinder diesel, check out the ford forum, there has been some discussion there recently in regards to rebuilding those and similar, kind of obsolete, or seems to be.
The S-0-S transmission was fine for all the work mentioned above, but you will need to investigate that further, parts, resources, its obsolete, but I am no position to say what is available, what resources you may have to make repairs, as well as maintenance, there are a few versions of these, you may want to see if you can ID it. Personally, I liked this transmission, spent many hours on that tractor.
As is, at $480, whole, complete, with power steering, good tires, remote hydraulics, other decent parts, if it was parted out or you could source everything to change it over to a manual trans, at a glance I would think you are still ok, though more expert advice would help you there.
If you decide on it, you will need the book on that particular model/transmission, may need to learn quite a bit to make repairs, adjustments, and or determine what problems it may currently have. I'd still take it for that value, just know what you are getting into, if all checks out it could be a decent running tractor, you'll get some good advice here, Tony Jacobs posted some detailed information in his comments on a rebuild post over on the ford forum, I've met with him before, he's extremely knowledgeable and very capable with those pre-thousand series tractors.
Pie weights alone are worth it, if complete, heavy or lighter set, complete with hardware, I should have mentioned that first I'd be all over that one, regardless, I'd vote yes without hesitation.
This post was edited by Billy NY at 08:32:09 07/18/14.
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