I'm a glutten for punishment

It's too late to find anything out about this tractor so I'm going into this with every expectation that it'll need a major overhaul . Including transmission , final drive and steering . I suppose the first thing I'll do is take a oil sample in for a test and change it . It might take me a few week's for a tune up and I know the steering is bad so that'll have to be addressed also ( they told me it had 1/3 turn of play in the wheel ) . I'll be back with the rest of the story hopefully in the next week or so . I hope to get it next weekend barring divorce when my wife find's out I bought it ;') . Take care ...Randy

Shift pattern is from left side setting on the seat --- up-reverse down-1st mid-way to right up-2nd. down 3rd. all-way right up 4th. down 5th.

If you can, let the seller load it..... .My "M" with both wheels all the way in is 88 inhttp://www.ytmag.com/farmall/messages/516222.htmlches outside to outside
It weighs just under 5000# with rear wheel weights no water in the tires...

Befor trying to load it---
drive it around trying out the shift pattern
and the brakes..

I have been told the steering problem is a gear in the steering box..only 1/2 of this gear is used...so turn it around 90*,now it will be runnig in the unused part of the old gear (fixed)
Check this out I have never done it...

I found something about a steering gear fix yesterday on a super m but forgot to mark it . The person working on it thought that it was put together wrong because the gear was only worn on half the gear but it was also rubbing on a bolt head so he made some spacer washers for it . Got to go . Take care ....Randy

So, you're going to need a REAL trailer, and a real truck to pull it with. 3/4 ton pickup, minimum, preferably a 1 ton dually.

Your major trailer issues will be width and weight. Most car haulers are way too narrow unless you narrow the tractor itself up. You have to take one or both rear wheels off and turn them around so they're dished in, and if it has a wide front end, slide that in too... Problem with that is we're talking about bolts that probably haven't seen a wrench in decades... They're probably rusted solid by now. Wide fronts are notoriously difficult to adjust on old tractors.

If you can get an 8 foot wide trailer, you're golden. It'll have a high enough weight carrying capacity and it'll be wide enough to load the tractor on.

The shift pattern is R and 5 forward speeds, but you can't shift on the move like a semi. No syncros. You STOP, pick a gear, and go. Then, if you have to, STOP, pick another gear, and go. You can start from any gear, even fifth, and bring her up to speed.

AS for hauling it home, lots of independent haulers read this site and can contact you w/ an offer to haul.

As for making an a$$ of yourself, don't sweat it. Spend a couple hours reading this forum and you'll be good to go when you get the M. Also check out the research & info features on the left.

As for buying on Ebay, I hope you didn't lay out too much cash for a tractor that needs all the work you think it does. You can find lots of M's on this site that have good paint & are ready to work the day they roll off the trailer. Good luck.

I didn't have anything to do today or yesterday for that matter ( first time in ages ) so that's what I did . I read this forum and came up with all kinds of question's about this M . But they can wait till I know more about it ( this tractor )

No I don't think it NEED'S all that work , I'm saying that with my kind of luck it MIGHT need that much work so that's all my expectation's are so I won't be to bummed out if it turn's out to be a salvage yard reject . I tryed posting a picture of it in the photo section but it didn't show up . I tried it twice and both times it said there was an upload error . Probably because it was down loaded from the ebay site so they won't do it . ...Randy

good luck
Mike