Re: Farmall M--- Changing a narrow front to a wide

Posted by captaink on August 20, 2004 at 08:37:47 from (66.115.212.249):

In Reply to: Farmall M--- Changing a narrow front to a wide fro posted by A. D. Hyde on August 19, 2004 at 14:41:57:

Trouble is minimal as the main support holes are already in the casting. You might have to drill a hole in the bottom of each side rail, but other than that should pretty much bolt on. I use a splitting stand when I changed mine over for the mounted picker/loader.

Hugh has a good point about lowering the center of gravity, however. I would not give up my wide front on my M for anything. Consider the difference with a load in the loader hitting a large hole squarely with a narrow front, vs. hitting a hole with only one wheel on a wide front. The narrow front will try to spin the steering wheel right out of your hands, the wide front wont.

Depending on your “originality” perspective, I would suggest a heavy duty front end with a six bolt hub rather than the original IH front end for daily usage. You can put wider rims and tires (I run 235R 16 used pickup tires on mine) on for better floatation and load carrying ability. If you want to keep the original look, go IH.

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• Re: Farmall M--- Changing a narrow front to a wide Hugh MacKay 15:43:41 08/20/04 (0)
• Re: Farmall M--- Changing a narrow front to a wide Alan D. Hyde 11:00:22 08/20/04 (0)

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