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Roadless 980 – specifications

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Build year not documented · Data origin: Reference work (Wikipedia/Wikibooks) · sources

The Roadless 980 is a tractor made by Roadless. Propulsion comes from MFWD. It runs on diesel; the engine is water-cooled.

Roadless – other models: the collective page of British 4x4 conversions from Hounslow outside the named ranges, from the Fordson Dexta to the Fordson Major Half-Track, 73 to 85 kW (98 to 114 hp), Ford and Perkins engines

This page gathers the Roadless tractors the register could not assign to a named range. Roadless Traction, based in Hounslow near London, factory-fitted Fordson tractors such as the Dexta, Super Dexta and Major with four-wheel drive, and in some cases also as a half-track version (Fordson Major Half-Track) for work on soft and sloping ground; the engines came from Ford, including the 2714E and 2715E, and occasionally from Perkins with the F3.152 unit.

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The register lists here 15 versions, mostly with a diesel engine, with 73 to 85 kW, or 98 to 114 hp.

Four-wheel-drive conversions of this kind were widespread mainly in Britain and Ireland on wet, sloping grassland and in forestry, where the standard Fordson rear-wheel drive reached its limits; Roadless thereby supplied both farming businesses and military and municipal users.

Buyers of used units should check the four-wheel-drive mechanics – transfer case, drive shafts and, on the half-track versions, track undercarriage and tensioning rollers – for wear, as well as the engine and clutch as on any Fordson classic, plus rust on the bodywork and axle housings; since Roadless itself no longer exists, spares for the conversion components run mainly through Fordson specialists.

Sources: SpecCodex register, model data: Roadless (weitere Modelle)

Technical data

Engine

Fuel	dieselcorrect
Cooling	water-cooledcorrect

Drivetrain and chassis

Drive	selectable four-wheel drivecorrect

Origin and approval

Plant	Englandcorrect

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