DAD bought me a '47 R diesel for Christmas when I was 9 yrs old, started doing fieldwork with it the following spring. It pulled our 14 ft Krause disk O-K in about 3rd gear. Tried plowing 40 acres of old alfalfa sod with the Deere 4-14 plow the salesman said it would pull. It would pull 2nd gear and 1st gear on clay hills. After we were done with that 40 we hooked one of our IH #8 3-14's to it and I could run 3rd gear most places but had to drop to 2nd on most clay hills. We hooked our Super M-TA to the 4 bottom Deere plow to finish the last 16 acres of plowing. Township road commissioneer had bought it to run a heavy-duty rototiller to chew up chunks of scarified oiled dirt roads so they smoothed out better, and to pull the BIG road drag, had about five individual steel drags and when it got dirt in front of all 5 it pulled the R almost to a standstill. The rototiller knocked the pto out every year for 4 years and the commissioner sent the R down the road, replaced it with an Oliver 770 diesel which I was still running 10 years later. We never hooked ANYTHING to the pto, we just ran it to get live hydraulics to lift&lower implements. After about an hour of running on a hard pull my ears would ring up to 5 to 6 hours. I was happy it was gone. The 2 cyl pony motor was really too little to turn that 416 cid diesel fast enough to start on cold days. Neighbor had a 730-D with the V-4 pomy and it never really got wound up when the diesel strated. We got a 1940 styled B to haul 2-3 loads of manure out of our hog house, was kinda an early confinement building, center aisle was only about 68 or 70 inches wide. Any other manure got hauled with the R spreader pulled by my '54 Super H FARMALL, it had elec start, AM radio and it did everything about 25% faster, if road travel was needed it was over 4 times faster than the B. The B refused to start if we hooked it to something like the water wagon we hauled water to the hogs in the pasture with. I could make 3 trips with the Super H in the time the B made 1, plus I had to haul ground feed to the hogs also. So the B sat and sat about 90+% of the 7-8 years we owned it. Our 4010 diesel was arguably better, it was a constant money pit, it was a '63 we bought in '68 and had been overhauled with the 4020 kit, pulling 4-14's it burned almost 5 gal of fuel an hour plus about 3 to 4 quarts of oil per tank of fuel. Any day I ran it and didn't have to walk home was a good day. Dad was using the 4010 to run the 6 ft Brillion bush hog, He used super heavy- duty grade 8+ shear bolts with the Brillion behind the 4010, if I mowed or chopped corn stalks with my Super H Dad would give me a hand full of about grade 1-/-2 shear bolts, No Lie, I sheared them a couple times just easing the clutch out to start the tractor moving and the blades spinning. The Super H was first choice to run the Brillion, I mowed 60 acres of hay every year, chopped 140 Acres of corn stalks. Anyhow. 100 hp 4010 in 5th gear cutting 1-1/2 ft tall grass in a waterway and when I get home the Brillion is parked next to the barn, the output shaft the blades bolt to sheared off flush with the oil seal on the bottom of the gearbox, not sure what a new shaft would have cost about 1972 or'73. Probably need an oil seal and a gasket. Everybody in our neighborhood had a 6 ft pull type Brillion, probably 5 or 6, maybe more. Anyhow, next day I come home from work the Brillion is sitting by the barn again and the pto shaft was beat-up, I doubt it would extend or compress. The one piece pto shaft REALLY hammered the u-joints in turns, only one universal by the gearbox & shear bolts, other was clear up front by the splined coupling, can you imagine how hard that hammered the entire pto drivetrain? Well, the 4 little grade 8 or 9 super extra hard and strong bolts holding the rear stub shaft started working loose, those bolts had split lockwashers, star lock washers AND a heavy application of RED LOCK-TITE, and they STILL worked loose enough to let the pto try to shift from 540 to 1000 rpm WHILE RUNNING doing well over $1000 worth of damage. I know DAD really, REALLY regretted not welding those 4 capscrews to the 540 rpm pto stub shaft. The only really positive way to make sure the stub shaft stays in place. I REALLY wish Dad would have kept our Super M-TA, he'd installed Char-Lynn power steering, he'd had it professionally repainted, at the crazy price of $50, but Dad had the grill masked off and painted IH #935 white so it looked more like a 350 or 450, and that cost an extra $5 plus the cost of a quart of IH white. Dad bought a gallon of red and the decals too, but there isn't a single run or sag, no orange peal, NOTHING to complain about. Wish I had that SM-TA out in my shop with my 3 Cub Cadets, the '51 M Dad bought new, was the first tractor I drove and ran solo on, and my '54 Super H, it was built about 8 weeks before I was born. I worked at the FARMALL PLANT from about October 1976 till December 11, 1981, the day my Son was born. I had a good excuse to be late for work that day, had to buy some cigars.
Ha ha! Yes, it didn't work well in this video, but we got it adjusted correctly and now it plies really nicely. I've got a video on my channel of us plowing with it using our John Deere D
I know the intake/exhaust manifold is different and the carb is slightly different. Are the heads the same? I think gas engines originally had taller pistons with a higher compression ratio... But not sure about that. Either way, whenever we rebuild an engine we use high compression pistons.
DAD bought me a '47 R diesel for Christmas when I was 9 yrs old, started doing fieldwork with it the following spring. It pulled our 14 ft Krause disk O-K in about 3rd gear. Tried plowing 40 acres of old alfalfa sod with the Deere 4-14 plow the salesman said it would pull. It would pull 2nd gear and 1st gear on clay hills. After we were done with that 40 we hooked one of our IH #8 3-14's to it and I could run 3rd gear most places but had to drop to 2nd on most clay hills. We hooked our Super M-TA to the 4 bottom Deere plow to finish the last 16 acres of plowing. Township road commissioneer had bought it to run a heavy-duty rototiller to chew up chunks of scarified oiled dirt roads so they smoothed out better, and to pull the BIG road drag, had about five individual steel drags and when it got dirt in front of all 5 it pulled the R almost to a standstill. The rototiller knocked the pto out every year for 4 years and the commissioner sent the R down the road, replaced it with an Oliver 770 diesel which I was still running 10 years later. We never hooked ANYTHING to the pto, we just ran it to get live hydraulics to lift&lower implements. After about an hour of running on a hard pull my ears would ring up to 5 to 6 hours. I was happy it was gone. The 2 cyl pony motor was really too little to turn that 416 cid diesel fast enough to start on cold days. Neighbor had a 730-D with the V-4 pomy and it never really got wound up when the diesel strated. We got a 1940 styled B to haul 2-3 loads of manure out of our hog house, was kinda an early confinement building, center aisle was only about 68 or 70 inches wide. Any other manure got hauled with the R spreader pulled by my '54 Super H FARMALL, it had elec start, AM radio and it did everything about 25% faster, if road travel was needed it was over 4 times faster than the B. The B refused to start if we hooked it to something like the water wagon we hauled water to the hogs in the pasture with. I could make 3 trips with the Super H in the time the B made 1, plus I had to haul ground feed to the hogs also. So the B sat and sat about 90+% of the 7-8 years we owned it. Our 4010 diesel was arguably better, it was a constant money pit, it was a '63 we bought in '68 and had been overhauled with the 4020 kit, pulling 4-14's it burned almost 5 gal of fuel an hour plus about 3 to 4 quarts of oil per tank of fuel. Any day I ran it and didn't have to walk home was a good day. Dad was using the 4010 to run the 6 ft Brillion bush hog, He used super heavy- duty grade 8+ shear bolts with the Brillion behind the 4010, if I mowed or chopped corn stalks with my Super H Dad would give me a hand full of about grade 1-/-2 shear bolts, No Lie, I sheared them a couple times just easing the clutch out to start the tractor moving and the blades spinning. The Super H was first choice to run the Brillion, I mowed 60 acres of hay every year, chopped 140 Acres of corn stalks. Anyhow. 100 hp 4010 in 5th gear cutting 1-1/2 ft tall grass in a waterway and when I get home the Brillion is parked next to the barn, the output shaft the blades bolt to sheared off flush with the oil seal on the bottom of the gearbox, not sure what a new shaft would have cost about 1972 or'73. Probably need an oil seal and a gasket. Everybody in our neighborhood had a 6 ft pull type Brillion, probably 5 or 6, maybe more. Anyhow, next day I come home from work the Brillion is sitting by the barn again and the pto shaft was beat-up, I doubt it would extend or compress. The one piece pto shaft REALLY hammered the u-joints in turns, only one universal by the gearbox & shear bolts, other was clear up front by the splined coupling, can you imagine how hard that hammered the entire pto drivetrain? Well, the 4 little grade 8 or 9 super extra hard and strong bolts holding the rear stub shaft started working loose, those bolts had split lockwashers, star lock washers AND a heavy application of RED LOCK-TITE, and they STILL worked loose enough to let the pto try to shift from 540 to 1000 rpm WHILE RUNNING doing well over $1000 worth of damage. I know DAD really, REALLY regretted not welding those 4 capscrews to the 540 rpm pto stub shaft. The only really positive way to make sure the stub shaft stays in place. I REALLY wish Dad would have kept our Super M-TA, he'd installed Char-Lynn power steering, he'd had it professionally repainted, at the crazy price of $50, but Dad had the grill masked off and painted IH #935 white so it looked more like a 350 or 450, and that cost an extra $5 plus the cost of a quart of IH white. Dad bought a gallon of red and the decals too, but there isn't a single run or sag, no orange peal, NOTHING to complain about. Wish I had that SM-TA out in my shop with my 3 Cub Cadets, the '51 M Dad bought new, was the first tractor I drove and ran solo on, and my '54 Super H, it was built about 8 weeks before I was born. I worked at the FARMALL PLANT from about October 1976 till December 11, 1981, the day my Son was born. I had a good excuse to be late for work that day, had to buy some cigars.
Thanks for the comment! A lot of information here! Great to see!
The tractor sounds really good but that plow I think maybe better either be lawn art or go to the shop for a top to bottom loving....lol
Ha ha! Yes, it didn't work well in this video, but we got it adjusted correctly and now it plies really nicely. I've got a video on my channel of us plowing with it using our John Deere D
Big difference between an all-fuel B and a gas B of the same vintage (late styled) model.
I know the intake/exhaust manifold is different and the carb is slightly different. Are the heads the same?
I think gas engines originally had taller pistons with a higher compression ratio... But not sure about that. Either way, whenever we rebuild an engine we use high compression pistons.
Glad to be an owner of one of these. Just gotta get it going again
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What a nice B wide you have! Runs good!
Thanks!
Great video of it's first work day after the rebuild.
It's always fun to work a new engine for the first time