Great job! Green Acres indeed -- keep Manhattan just give me the countryside. I'm sure both the wife & hubby are tickled pink with the resurrection of the Massey. I guess tractors are just great big ole lawn mowers: open the carb, clear the holes, squirt some cleaner in the holes making sure it comes out the other end -- presto change-o ... ignition. Congratulations on gettin'er started & wish you the best on the revisit for the upgrades.

Great job getting the M-F 165 up & running the ole girl just needs a little tlc. I love the sound of those Continental gasoline I 4's with vertical exhaust. I have a 1959 M-F 50 with a Z134 Continental gasoline engine, & what a power house these engines are. The best thing I did for Stella was putting in a Pertronix electronic ignition; She doesn't miss a beat.I did take off the grass burner exhaust as well, & put on a vertical stack. I use her for skidding logs, & I have a log splitter that I hook up to her; I sometimes use her to grade our road with a woods scraper blade as well. I have had her for 26 years now. I also own a 2018 M-F 1526 with a fel, & is 4wd diesel that I bought new. I like my Chevy trucks, Corvairs, & Massey-Ferguson tractors.

love me some tractors too hawker, they are usually pretty straightforward. i got a old 48 farmall C and a 86 ford 1910, why farm some when you can farmall

Great content! Love these " bring em back to life" videos, wish I was there to hand you tools, working on that old girl reminds me of my 49 3100...pure and simple, nice job getting her purring again!

Thanks for excellent video - . My son purchased an M-F 165 tractor and i volunteered to do a tune up . Purchased parts from a M-F dealer hopefully to avoid the junk sold on line / made sure the AC Delco points were marked made in the USA. So i installed new plugs, plug wires, dist cap & rotor , points and condenser. Tractor ran worse then before, i could barely keep it runnning. Installed new air filter and fuel bowl, made certain i had good fuel flow, it would still barely run . Paid a man that restores M-F tractors to install rebuild kit in the Marvel Shebler carburetor- that did not help. I was convinced the problem was in carburetor- bought another rebuild kit . I believe i cleaned that carburetor as well as humanly possible but to be certain i had a friend clean it in his Ultrasonic cleaner, installed the 2nd rebuild kit, reinstalled the carb, tractor still hard to start and would barely continue to run . I am not exaggerating, i must have had the carb off 20 or more times. Marvel Shebler carbs like these are as about as basic as it gets, but if i never read another article about Marvel Shebler carbs it will be too soon. Anyway i asked a friend that is a better mechanic then myself to look at this tractor. Guess what ? He thought problem was in the carb also and removed it 2 or 3 times looking for the problem - no luck . Finally out of ideas he removed the new points and condenser - installed a used set he had lying around his shop, problem corrected. Pretty certain the problem was a bad condenser. I am 75 yrs old and don't recall of ever hearing about a new set of points/condenser being defective. We came very close to ordering a ZENTIH carb ($475.00 i believe) and of course that would not have corrected the problem. Forgot to mention i checked compression and i think all cylinders were 145 to 150 lbs - also installed new ignition coil - procedure to check the timing is a little unusual but i believe i checked it correctly and i think it was within spec / 8 deg BTDC i think . Incidentally i believe the valve you were adjusting on the carb is called the Power Valve.

Looks like a Zenith Carburetor. They are made not too far from me and are still in business. Kits should be available. Great job. I had to do similar things to my 50 Farmall Cub when I got it. Although it did run, it could barely move itself. It’s going to be the subject of some later KZfaq videos when I get to work on it again. Great job very thorough and interesting!

I expect those lights do a great job of illuminating the back of the loader arms and absolutely nothing else. I grew up with an Allis Chalmers Model G from the 1940’s that had the world’s most frightening sickle mower attached, and owe much of my mechanical skills to that wonderful old tractor.

I blend old gas with new and burn it in my truck - but my truck doesn't have a computer on it. Not sure I'd do that if it were newer. Maybe blend it at a lower rate? I usually put a gallon of old gas with a full tank (16 gallons) of fresh gas.

I thought they were diesel.