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Mike: A photo will probably be the only sure way, however if your H has an original wide front the ty-rods will be out front of the axle. It will have a ty-rod from one side to the other, plus a drag link from the left side to the center, and hooked to the steering control arm. The Super H and any newer models all have ty-rods behind the axle. There may well be older type wide fronts on a lot of the newer tractors as there were a sizable number of these around dealers, as the Supers came on the market. Back in those days tractors were shipped to dealers via rail. IH could put more Cs, Hs and Ms on a rail flat car when equiped with narrow fronts. Wide fronts for a percentage of these were straped to rail car deck under tractors. At the end of H and M production just about every dealer found himself with a few extra wide fronts. A few of the new type front ends have made their way to Hs over the years. Also, all the aftermarket wide fronts have ty-rods behind the axle. Of the ones I've seen, only the IH wide front has the center that axle pivots on and bolts to tractor, made of cast. Don't be alarmed by the narrow front nay-sayers. Millions of narrow fronts were sold by the various companies. Are we to believe all those millions of farmers were wrong, and these few nay-sayers at YT are right, I hardly think so. These folks will try to tell you narrow front was specific to row crops. I can give you hundreds of example of farmers the bought these new and never grew a row crop. Farmers loved narrow front tractors on hay balers. I used my 300 nf on hay baler long after I had a 560D with wf, why, in spite of 560s power advantage, 300 was just as fast, because it was more manuverable. I even liked the 300 in the bush, around stumps, brush, etc. There are many factors why narrow front disappeared, imagined safety is only a small portion of the reason.
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