Re: Farmall M or SuperM?

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 20, 2004 at 17:05:09 from (209.226.106.142):

In Reply to: Farmall M or SuperM? posted by Oliver1850 on January 20, 2004 at 09:11:30:

Oliver: I guess it is safe to say all M, SM and SMTA had the petcocks from the factory. There is no question many of those tractors had the boss and were probably drilled.

Remember also that in the late 50s and 60s these tractors were still relatively new. If anyone had the misfortune of breaking a block, the tractor would have been quite worthy of a new block. A new block in that era would have been the same block as 400 or 450. No question it would have had a dip stick.

I broke the block in my 560 diesel in 1978. That would have been 6 years after the 282 diesel was put in any new farm tractors. A new short block was still available from IH at that point. Remember, when these tractors were still in the hands of original owners and less than 15 years old, there was not very large inventory in scrapyards. You had to go new. That was the case with my 560 at 17 years old. A used block could not be found anywhere.

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