I remember way back in 1960 I was working on a Farm in West Scotland and I was given a TEF-20 for plowing while all other Farm boys had Masseys with 3 cyl DI Perkins engines and they would start at half a turn of the engine and without any starting aids.....the TEF-20 procedure if I remember correctly was first to Press the excess fuel button on the fuel injection pump, then climb on board and pump the Ki-Gas, then heater plug, then decompress the engine, then push in the start button on the side of the Gearbox with your inner right knee and then push the gear lever to engage the start solenoid and once you got enough speed up on the engine through the De-compressor lever and a quick prayer to the Good Lord that it will start....many times the prayer was never answer resulting in a Massey pull starting me and the thing that made me most angry was that on a pull start the engine would fire up straight away...but once she was running she was a great little tractor and did everything on the Farm but plowing was when she was at her happiest and the plow she pulled depending on the soil was a 04 furrow plow.

Lovely. I grew up driving one of these!

What a beauty!

Great job ther sir.

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Nice sounding engine! That’s great you got it back together :) what year is it? What’s this about a road way going through your woods? I don’t like the sound of that.

Nice tractor and well done rebuilding, I just bought a 1959 TEF it has no wiring loom, no dynamo like yours, but it does have an alternator, but as I said not wired, it runs but the engine race's, I am told this is a diaphragm problem in the pump, collecting it Saturday if you have any tips I would love to here from you.Cheers.Jimmy

Hi There .I recently restored my ferguson tef 20 and there is oil coming out of the exhaust elbow joint when the engine is running .I did not have this problem before the restoration and the tractor starts very easily . The tractor has not been worked for a long time .Any help and advice would be much appreciated.

Great job. I want to fit a temperature gauge to mine . Where is your water temperature gauge attached to the engine? Thanks

@Outdoorsman Good evening. I was wondering if you might be able to help... I’ve just rebuilt a TEF engine and come to fire it up this weekend, with no joy.. No attempt to fire at all, even with easy start... just white smoke. I’ve double checked the timing and spill timing and all looks good to me. I was curious of your video as you mentioned timing your engine out of phase. Can you elaborate on this please? Do you mean that the 1/4 inch hole in the flywheel where you lock it for spill timing could mean the engine might be on compression or possibly exhaust stroke? 🤔

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Can I ask your advice? I'm trying to get the crankshaft out of my TEF but it won't budge. I was told to suspend the engine block in the air, hanging from the crank, and that the weight of the block would pull itself off the crank. It's been like this for a week but still isn't moving.Can you offer any insight? Thanks

What is the filter beside the oil filler neck

One thing I would like to say is not to shut the fuel tap off on a diesel engine

Hello, I'm currently rebuilding an ferguson TEF-20 myself. And i can't seem to figure out how to take the pistons out of the block? It seems that the piston will not go through the engine without taking the piston liners with them? Did you have this problem?

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