IH Wide Front for H/M questions/worth

Second question: What's an original IH wide front for an H or M with the linkage out in front worth? I know it depends on what kind of shape it's in, how wore it is, etc, but let's just say this one could be on the tractor today and used in the fiel as soon as you had the front wheels back on.....

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

I also have a 1942 M with a Norden wide front end with the arms behind the axle. It came from the dealer new with the wide front end on it.

GO FIGURE

IH only kept the out front design for two or three years? Boy, that was fast! Didn't know that bit of info.

Well, I'll be darned.

Hmmm, We must have gotten cheated by IH then, 'cause we bought two brand spankin' new wide front ends in 1951 that had the tie rods out front with the offset steering knuckles and the drop in pins. Ordered both with the heavy 1/2" adjustment plate. Did they just sell us new old stock, or something?

Who had trouble with the caster and camber adjustments on a front tie rod IH front end? Did ya happen to get their names? Because, they are definitely strangers to me...

Oh, and by the way, just where are the caster and camber adjustments on an IH out front wide front end anyway? Our front ends sure didn't have any C&C adjustment. Now, I know we got cheated! Dag-Nabit!!

Well now wait a minute here, let's see. Where are the caster and camber adjustments on any tractor wide front end? I sure can't see 'em from where I'm standing. :>(

I realize I live wayyyyy y out in the boonies, but the first wide fronts with the tie rods behind the axle that I was aware of from IH were on the number series tractors; this is not to say they weren't out there .

Maybe they were introduced on the Supers? Heck, I dunno; all I know is row crop tractors & I'm startin' to think that I don’t know beans about them either.

Can ya help me out on this one? Should I move a little closer to town or somptin'? Am I hallucinating? Have I been out in the sun too darned long?

Maybe I should take an aspirin, lie down and then call ya in the morning? Would that work? :>)

Thanks for puttin' up with my smart-a$$ mouth,

Allan

Just cause you know these tractors inside and out doesn't mean that every one you have ever seen or heard of isn't a miracle child of a industrious dealer/distributor plot to peddle decades old merchandise as new in the name of a huge profit..

Boy, ya think ya know somethin, then wham....

Jed knows I was just funin' with him. (Or, at least I hope he does anyway!) :>)

Allan

I think Jed just hit the wrong # on his keyboard and I think he meant to say "early 50s".

And maybe the darned things did have caster/camber problems; heck I sure don't know.

I can assure you that they drove requiring about the same physical effort that it takes to 'push' a log chain down the road. :>)

Aw, the good ol' days, kinda miss 'em.

Allan

The IH H and M wide fronts were always out front; never did change that I know of.

Add roughly $800 to a grand to the price of the tractor for a wide stanced one.

My 2 cents,

Allan

Happy Farming. Red Lightning