Allen, around here in southern Michigan there were several farmers in the late 1950's and early 1960's who had rear end troubles with their big Farmalls starting with M's and Super M's right on through the early 460's and 560's. I honestly think it was partly because they started using bigger tires (13-38's and 15.5-38's) and dualing them up along with engine soup-up kits. Most of the trouble was that inner axle bearing failing and that caused gear teeth spalling and other expensive failures. Some guys thought it was the using light weight lubricant in the rear ends. They broke a lot of cast wheel centers too if they used snap-ons. Anyhow a lot of low hour tractors had to have their rearends rebuilt and the big Farmalls got a bad reputation because of it. Some early 560's had troubles with their power steering systems too. Interestingly enough, some John Deere 4010's had some rear end and transmission troubles too...and the early John Deere powershifts didn't take it too well when you turned up the fuel pumps and/or added turbo's to get extra power....neither did the engines if you didn't put on a larger oil pan and keep track of the oil level closely. A lot of yellow paint was sold to paint lemons on some tractors of all colors in those days.
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