Lets make a 7000 rowdy

opinion: I would back the torque screw out and you will have about 115 HP + or -  a couple. You can farm with it that way if you don't use all the hp all the time. More than that and you can't keep in cool in the summertime. Everything you mentioned ok EXCEPT the big square. Unless you have flat land, dry and take it easy a big square will rock the 7000 - it is too light.  We sold a big square and saw it overheat a 180 hp 18,000# tractor when pushing the baler.  IF you want to pull it - get a 7080 pump and have it worked with bigger injectors and lines.  Takes about 2.5 hours to swap out. An intercooler off a 7020 or 145hp gleaner will help or water injection - swapping turbos and using both way is possible - some have done it here with different recommendations. The power train is no issue up to about 200 hp on the clutch - don't try shifting on the go using that power or slipping the clutch excessively. You will have to beef up the torque limiter over about 150 hp.  

That 301 can have a intercooler setup from a 7020 put on it and fueled to the max with a bigger turbo will make a lot of horsepower. However it still has a old style 301 block unlike the intercooled hot rodded 649t that is also a 301 that the 7020 tractor uses, biggest difference is going to be the piston oil squirters to keep the pistons from melting. Anything consistently over 120 HP you're looking for trouble with a 45+ year old tractor

Black belly 7000 had piston cooling jets. The 7000 tractor is a 9400 pound 106 HP chassis, much lighter than an 1155 MF tractor.

Edited by DrAllis - 09 Apr 2024 at 12:56am

it always amazes me that people will by something not suited to their needs because "it was a good deal". Then spend a small fortune farmerizing it into something like what they should have brought in the first place, which would have been more economical in the long run. Overpowering a smaller lighter tractor, then weighting it down to do the job a bigger tractor was built for is a recipe for disaster. 

For a 150hp 7000, just have the pump properly rebuilt and set for that, none of the other things you mentioned would even be needed, but you cannot use it as a 150hp tractor, use it as a 106hp tractor, just faster. An S200 turbo would help move more air through it though, but nothing is a direct bolt on turbo upgrade. I set up fuel and air systems like this all the time. Just to answer another thing I saw mentioned, the 7000 drivetrain is nothing like a 7010 and up, so if you splat the original 7000 drivetrain(which you wont) you can't just bolt in a 7010 and up rear end or trans. Completely different animals. A 7000 is the last revision of the old 190 drivetrain, which started in the D19 actually. After many revisions I feel they finally perfected that drivetrain for the 7000 model tractor. Good luck!

injpumpEd, as far as the turbo goes, I am not scared of having to fabricate a setup for a larger charger. In fact I just finished up throwing a 53 mil garret on my JD 2440 for the pulling season. I have noticed right now summit racing has some great deals on Borg turbos, and I was thinking about ordering an s366 ahead of time for this tractor. Up by me there are only two injection pump shops, and both of them I have had grievances with in the past, so if you or anyone else has a recommendation of another one somewhere near Wisconsin or better yet in Wisconsin, I wouldn't be opposed to sending it in the mail. Thank you for the clarification on the transmission and rear end. 

So your still thinking you're going to be ahead spending several thousand dollars on hopping up a 7000 to try and do a 7060 or 8050's job and still be ahead? It's still going to be a 7000 at the end of the day. If you want go ahead and flatten the leaf springs in the injection pump and throw 7080 injectors in it and have at'er but it's still a dang'ol 7000. If I were you buy the unbelievable deal of a 7000 doctor it up by fixing leaks and minor imperfections and sell or trade it for something more suitable. It took me 3 years to find a 8050 that fit the bill. There out there. On both days I bought my 7020 and my 8050 I didn't think I would be buying a tractor today when I woke up.

Edited by jvin248 - 10 Apr 2024 at 7:28pm