903 may not be the most reliable engine ever but My family farm has had one for 30 years and it still has the sexiest tractor sound out there.... V8 diesel is just so bad ass sounding
This was right after a total rebuild at 10,000 hours. It was running a little rich. Its dialed in now. Not a torque monster but it gets the job done rather well.
My parents have a massey ferguson 4880 with a straight pipe. I love the sound of that v8! I spent so many hours listening to that rumble as a teenager.
it is loud and bad ass sounding if you are a teenager looking for a tractor, but the only place you find diesel v8's today is in trucks built for city folk who are like you and need that v8. in practice, and i lived through the v8 era in the 80s in tractors, they used more fuel, were not reliable and most farmers after having 1 , which was rare, never went back to them again. surrounded by john deeres the one deere we never saw was teh big one v8, 8850.
@@brentvillman2843 some of you guys are pretty wierd about wanting a loud tractor, the farmers with loud tractors in my day were the ones that didn't keep up on repairs and or didn't have money to make repairs. my dads first 4wd was an allis 440 which was a v8, he traded it in 1980 for an allis 8550, which made the 440 feel old, and if you been in an 8550 that's saying something. it never left our farm though.
903 may not be the most reliable engine ever but My family farm has had one for 30 years and it still has the sexiest tractor sound out there.... V8 diesel is just so bad ass sounding
This was right after a total rebuild at 10,000 hours. It was running a little rich. Its dialed in now. Not a torque monster but it gets the job done rather well.
My parents have a massey ferguson 4880 with a straight pipe. I love the sound of that v8! I spent so many hours listening to that rumble as a teenager.
it is loud and bad ass sounding if you are a teenager looking for a tractor, but the only place you find diesel v8's today is in trucks built for city folk who are like you and need that v8. in practice, and i lived through the v8 era in the 80s in tractors, they used more fuel, were not reliable and most farmers after having 1 , which was rare, never went back to them again. surrounded by john deeres the one deere we never saw was teh big one v8, 8850.
@@brentvillman2843 some of you guys are pretty wierd about wanting a loud tractor, the farmers with loud tractors in my day were the ones that didn't keep up on repairs and or didn't have money to make repairs. my dads first 4wd was an allis 440 which was a v8, he traded it in 1980 for an allis 8550, which made the 440 feel old, and if you been in an 8550 that's saying something. it never left our farm though.
How many acres does the tractor work on?
It's not in service anymore, as we have upgraded. But we farmed about 2,000 acres with it