Posted by mkirsch on July 08, 2009 at 06:18:42 from (64.80.108.56):
In Reply to: Farmall M or Super M posted by FarmallZach on July 07, 2009 at 19:00:53:
Everybody says "check for disk brakes," but not how to tell if you have disk brakes. Once you take them apart it's very obvious, but
Your H and M will almost certainly have band brakes. Only the last 2000 Hs and Ms made had the factory disk brakes, so they are very rare.
Band brake covers are made of stamped steel, are smooth and look like cooking pots.
Disk brake covers are heavy cast items that are held on by several bolts through the side.
So if the brake covers on this new tractor look different from your H and M, you either have a rare late M or a Super M.
Check the engine for the C-264 designation cast in. That's further evidence of a Super M.
Early Super Ms were not much different from regular Ms on the outside, except for the disk brakes. In 1953, IH moved the battery box back under the seat, and added live hydraulics (a cast iron tank with a lever and hoses under the gas tank) to many of them.
Look at casting codes too. They will be two numbers and a letter, like "11 22 X" indicating the day the casting was made. Month, day, and a letter code for year. X is 1952. Y is 1953. If you find most of the castings with X or Y codes, that means the tractor was made during Super M production, and is a Super M.
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