I don't do inframes on Ford's, period. Ever. Changing the rear seal requires a split, so you simply split it and do it rather than suffer trying to do an inframe. It adds a total of about 2 hours to the job to remove the block and reinstall the block in the tractor. Throwing it up on an engine stand where you can see what you're doing saves a good portion of that time.
As far as variants of the 135 still being in production... that's quite true. There are also variants of the Ford 3000/3600 still in production today, or were up until Farmtrac ceased operations late last year. Obviously, the 3000 never had the sales numbers of the 135, but the basic design is still out there. Most Ford buyers from that era bought 4000's and 5000's because they were more usefull tractors for what they were doing.
If you think dealers don't dyno tractors and adjust pumps, you've not been around the dealer shop too much, or mabey they don't tell the patriots like you two how they operate. Most dealers with Dyno's will check every new tractor to verify that it's up to spec before it leaves the yard. Some special cases get a twist of the screw to make it look better than the old one, either because they've taken someone elses paint on trade or because a finicky customer needs to believe that the new model (that was same as the old model) has to be that much better than the old tractor. That was called 'marketing'. Both of you seem like ideal canidates for 'marketing' as well. I don't see why on earth they'd do more warranty work as a result of that. Turning the screw 5-10% isn't going to hurt any tractor if it was any good to start with. That would be well within the cooling system capacity of most. There were lots of tractors, especially turbo engines, that were cranked up anywhere from 10-30+%. I've got a Ford 7710 that's cranked up 20% itself. Lots of them were (perhaps most of them), because they would take it. Beyond 20% on the 7710 and you'd quickly start running into cooling problems and extreme EGT's, but up to that point and a mild amount of common sense and they last a long time.
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