Posted by mkirsch on April 16, 2010 at 05:39:30 from (64.80.108.57):
In Reply to: Dating my Farmall M posted by Bengt Erik Eriksson on April 16, 2010 at 03:15:15:
Hal's advice applies to North American Farmalls, but may not hold true on the European Farmalls.
Is the "FFGM 1688" punched into a flat spot on the block? If the code is in raised letters on the rough surface of the block, it is a part number.
In North America, the engine serial numbers are usually CLOSE to the tractor's serial number, but usually, they're not the same. Unless you are very close to the cutoff point for a given year, the engine serial will usually give you the year the tractor was manufactured. It won't give you the exact serial number of the tractor; that is lost to time unless you can track down a bill of sale for the tractor from a previous owner.
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