DIY projects in this issue – Perkins engine overhaul, tractor show prep, Fergie winch resto, MF 550 refurb
ot all tractors that pass through my workshop leave with a shiny new paint job. Occasionally, machines arrive for mechanical work only, and that was the case with the Massey Ferguson 168 featured here. Its owner requested that I rebuild the Perkins engine, and reported that the breather pipe on the rocker cover had blown off. Well, it was certainly smoking when I first got my hands on it, and the source seemed to