Introduced with great pomp and ceremony at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, in October 1964, Ford’s 6X models were met with great enthusiasm. This was the culmination of several years’ work to create a group of tractors that could be built across the globe to suit various markets, sharing components to create a truly worldwide range.
The smallest of the four models was the 2000 – a three-cylinder tractor that was billed as “a 37bhp handyman, available in basic form to keep initial costs right down.”
Like the 3000, 4000, and 5000, the 2000 was available with options to tailor the tractor to the owner’s needs, but you can think of it, in simple terms, as a ‘budget’ 3000.
Many potential buyers considered it more sensible to buy a 3000 for a bit more money and have the additional benefits that it brought, and as a result it can be hard to find a 2000 today.
With the help of Blue Force’s Peter Plehov, this guide will help you to understand the intricacies of the Ford 2000 – in both 6X and 6Y forms – should you consider purchasing one.
ENGINE
Three three-cylinder engines were used across the 6X range, with the 2000, unsurprisingly, featuring the smallest. Whereas the 3000’s 2.87-litre and 4000’s 3.29-litre engines were ‘square’, with the same bore and stroke dimension, the 6X 2000 used a 2.59-litre unit with a big bore
