Posted by LenNH on December 06, 2007 at 11:26:52 from (75.69.99.42):
In Reply to: 1938 F-20 road gears posted by Scott Rukke on December 05, 2007 at 07:40:25:
As to the pin to lock out the road gear, I can't speak for the F-20. Almost certainly, IH sold tractors with factory-installed road gear ONLY on rubber tires. These became available pretty commonly after about 1936 (first, the round-spoked wheels, then about 1938 with those beautiful cast-iron wheels). I do know that there is a lockout "pin" on the H and M. During WW II, the use of rubber tires on tractors was restricted, and IH simply put a long bolt through the top of the transmission case of the H and M to keep the 4th-5th gear rail from sliding forward into 5th gear. A tractor that came that way could be "converted" to a 5-speed transmission in about 2 minutes by turning the bolt out far enough to let the rail move forward. I am pretty sure that tractors that came from the factory with 5 speeds just had a short bolt into the transmission at this point. Naturally, if somebody wanted to lock the tractor out of fifth gear, he could put a longer bolt through this hole. My father probably should have done this with me. I sure did like to roar up and down the roads on our H. But maybe by then I was a mature-enough teenager not to upset the thing on sharp corners in the road.
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