Posted by rhtx55 on February 14, 2015 at 06:56:22 from (68.191.209.251):
In Reply to: Farmall 300 questions posted by M-Farm on February 13, 2015 at 07:49:39:
Power steering was an option, most were built without it. They were powered from the tractor's live hydraulic system, powered by an engine driven hydraulic pump located forward of the distributor drive. Anyone may have added power steering to the tractor over the years.
Check to see how many remote hydraulic levers it has. Three is most desirable, but many were built with only two. There were two styles of fast hitch. The early ones had a smaller hydraulic cylinder on the right side under the platform, this controlled the hitching point higher or lower, and another larger one in the rear to control the hitch height. This one works a bit better for fast hitch implements.
The later style fast hitch with traction control has only one large cylinder in the rear, and it was designed to use the draft & weight of the implement to increase traction. These work ok but most have very worn linkages. A lot of these tractors were built with the standard horseshoe drawbar of the earlier H & M's.
A Tach was an option as well, it mounted on the dash to the right of the shifter, this option required a different distributor housing to include the tach drive gear which turned a speedometer style cable that ran back to the tach. Most are inoperable as the drive gears were plastic & the cable broke.
Other options to include front wheel weights (6788D)1 or 2 sets, rear wheel weights, clamshell style fenders, any fasthitch implements etc will certainly add to it's value.
The tractors were hailed as live hydraulics, live PTO, disc brakes, and increased power over the previous Super H it replaced.
I would say it's worth a grand, but as you can see below, I'm a bit prejudiced....
It's a bit more work to restore than an H or M, but well worth it.
They make very handy baling tractors.
This post was edited by rhtx55 at 07:02:53 02/14/15.
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