Farmall 100 Hi-Clearance Serial Plate with FAA on?

• 100 Hi-Clearance picture

So maybe it is a 1954 Farmall 100 HC. I understand the 100 and 130 serial plate was on the bell housing. Is HC then the high clearance I assume. J means Rockford Clutch I have understood in the past. The key exactly to the model is finding out what those numbers read before the HC as you may know. Right now when looking at it in person we think we can see a 1 and a 0 but woulnd't swear to it. I do know there is a company that can read old serial tags using some sort of device and looking at the plate from the other side if taken off the tractor, and assuming the stamp depth was normal. Probably uses metal density somehow since they can read them even though you can't see anything on most other plates bottom side.

The owner we also found out today bought the tractor from first owner, as far as he knows it has not been modified. He did tell us about the seat and mount today and that the right distance-housing from the transmission to final drive was changed out. He said the mechanic that changed it said it is off 140 he remembered.

A Farmall person we showed this data and some casting #'s to said it sounds to them like we have a 100 HC bell housing & engine put onto a Super A or AV rear end (it was not uncommon to have trans or final drive problems on these - someone prob'ly replaced a "bad" rear end or busted final drive) We found some casting #'s and his date guess as the ones we sent him were a 5.23.W (ie 1951) on the trans. housing and the 9.7.2 on the engine (1954). All the other no's we found so far were just part numbers he told us. And alot are the same for SA thru 130 , & some parts of 140's were also the same. He thinks the serial number from seeing all the pictures and this info now will be a 100 HC. The only no's before the HC would be either 100 or 130 he feels, and the Z (1954) on the engine says it's a 100. (and there should also be a date on the bell housing - a Z here would mean for sure it's a 100 ). Haven't looked for that yet. At any rate it's still a partial mix but the important parts seem to be there or most of them so that is 3/4 of the battle.

I'm finding out alot of good information and appreciate everyones help. See the link below for the picture of the bell housing tag. Thank you.

• Picture of Other Tag Found

It has to be as Jim called it, a 1950 Super AV. You might want to go into the casting codes, as that will tell you the year each casting on the tractor was cast.

Here is a 1948 Super AV for comparison. Note the "updated" seat!

Haha Hugh! Yep, some of us bear watching! Not so lucky with wives though. On my way from Alberta to Nova Scotia, I stopped in Saskatchewan (for about 8 years!)and got married. She finally got tired of criss-crossing the country so she went home. I am now married to a city girl from Ottawa who took to the country life like a duck to water. She will be coming farming with me in Nova Scotia. Heck, she may even drive that Super AV down there! What do you think?

Some friends of mine were coming from Grand Prarrie AB with a convoy of logging trucks. Guy in an old Mack with a cherry picker on it, radios to tractor trailer in front of him, "stop" right in the middle of the tunnel. center had gone out of clutch in Mack. Mack had moose bar so they let it roll up to back of log trailer, chained the two tight together, next stop, Nova Scotia. I'll bet that wasn't rush hour on Fri. night. Quebec Police came along just as they got back to speed, basically ignored them. In NB scales told them towing a truck that way on TCH was against the law. They told him it just broke and they were towing to next exit. That was the only close call they had threatening their plans.

I guess if those guys could tow a truck 700 to 800 miles illegally, your good wife should be able to make it on a Super AV. Watch out for Riverre de Loup, it snows 11.5 months of the year up there.