You're more than welcome to post here. We like to discuss old Ford tractors with anyone who'll pay attention.
As I said in my reply to your post in the JD forum, a non-running tractor of that size and vintage isn't worth more than $500.00, and another $200.00 to $300.00 for the mower.
If you're paying someone else to do the work, assume that it will cost at least $500.00 just to replace all of the fluids and filters and bleed the fuel lines. It probably needs more than that, but you won't know what it needs until you tear into it (or pay someone else to tear into it). Most shops will charge you an hourly rate just to look at it and tell you what it needs, and then they'll charge you to do the actual work. If the engine won't turn over, most shops will tell you that it needs a rebuild even if it's just stuck from sitting. An engine rebuild will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2000.00. A full service of the hydraulic s under the top cover, which it will probably need, is another $200.00 to $500.00. A new clutch requires splitting the tractor, which isn't cheap to have someone else do, but I'm not sure what someone would charge for the labor, but that tractor has the dual stick transmission, so it's either the 6 or 8 speed, so it probably has the 2 stage clutch, so just the parts are up in the $300.00+ range for an aftermarket clutch to over $800.00 for a real OEM Ford version.
As I said in my reply to your post in the JD forum, a non-running tractor of that size and vintage isn't worth more than $500.00, and another $200.00 to $300.00 for the mower.
If you're paying someone else to do the work, assume that it will cost at least $500.00 just to replace all of the fluids and filters and bleed the fuel lines. It probably needs more than that, but you won't know what it needs until you tear into it (or pay someone else to tear into it). Most shops will charge you an hourly rate just to look at it and tell you what it needs, and then they'll charge you to do the actual work. If the engine won't turn over, most shops will tell you that it needs a rebuild even if it's just stuck from sitting. An engine rebuild will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2000.00. A full service of the hydraulic s under the top cover, which it will probably need, is another $200.00 to $500.00. A new clutch requires splitting the tractor, which isn't cheap to have someone else do, but I'm not sure what someone would charge for the labor, but that tractor has the dual stick transmission, so it's either the 6 or 8 speed, so it probably has the 2 stage clutch, so just the parts are up in the $300.00+ range for an aftermarket clutch to over $800.00 for a real OEM Ford version.
