Owen Aaland

This tractor has reinforcing plates welded on both the U shaped piece and the swinging part. Both of those repair parts were available from IH and would fit either an H of an M. The 1940 H (SN 40XXX) that my dad had (I still have it) is a bit newer than this one since it has the newer style rear frame cover. It was sold new with rubber tires but no electrical system. My dad bought it in the early 1950s after the original owner traded it on a new tractor. When my dad purchased it the dealer had overhauled the engine and had it painted. A new electrical system had been installed so the parts are the same as a Super H. The upper steering shaft had been replaced to get rid of the greaseable U-joint under the hood. The original hoods had two grease holes rather than just one. The radiator as been replaced on the tractor pictured here since it had a pressure system. Front hood is mounted with 5/16 fine thread bolts rather than the original Dsuz 1/4 turn fasteners. It still has the original rubber front engine mounts. I changed mine to the cast iron blocks after the rubber mounts failed and allowed the front of the engine to sag. The hand crank coupler would no longer line up with the crankshaft so it could not he hand cranked. Since this H was my dad's main tractor I know the draw bar hole was repaired twice during the time it was being used. Local welding shop would cut the hole large enough to weld in a harder bushing build up the top surface back to original. The top sliding piece was replaces by a roller assembly that was also available though IH parts. In the 35 years that tractor served as main tillage tractor the engine was rebuilt three time. The last overhaul was in 1974 or 1975. It probably only has a couple hundred hours of use since then, mostly to cut fire wood with a front mounted buzz saw.

Zero psi vapor pressure of propane (boiling point at normal atmosphere) is about -44º F. When you get to that temperature there is no pressure to push it out of the tank. Butane loses all pressure at a much warmer temperature at about 30º F. That is why Propane/Butane mix does not work well in cold weather if drawing from the vapor valve of the tank.

I have the category 1 three point version with scarifier on my 2444.

If there is biodiesel in the fuel system it may turn to paste in a few months causing problems. Not all cleaning solvents will dissolve the sticky mess. Stordard Solvent in my was tanks would not do anything to clean it up. Some brake cleaners work better than others. Most likely your fuel problem is due to stuck pistons in the rotor. I was able to them freed up on my 460 by pressurizing the fuel system with the hand primer pump. I don't see that pump on your tractor. You could try to get the pistons to move by applying air pressure the the inlet port on the pump while cranking the engine. While the engine is running there may be 60 psi pushing the pistons out but there is very little pressure at ranking speed. If you are going to try this just make sure to either remove the top cover or the timing cover so that you don't build pressure in the pump housing.

In 1975 IH special tools had burner head to fit a propane torch bottle fitted with a hose to draw air through to the flame. You were instructed to run the end of the hose past anywhere you thought there was a refrigerant leak. Any R12 would turn the flame yellow/green. It came with warnings about Phosgene gas (mustard gas). To use it only outdoors and not breathe any of the fumes. Not only dangerous but really didn't work very well either. Within a couple of years the electronic sniffers became available.

The shop that owns the store I work at has a new old stock one that came with the inventory 30 years ago when they purchased the business. The put up a new building so a lot of old parts got found and moved. Part number is 530380R2. If it is the one you are looking for call Traxler Power and Equipment. As an indication of age it has a metal band on it with the part number along with a computer punch card wired to it. My guess is that would be from the late 70s as the newest it could be.

Unless someone has allowed air into a LP cylinder they will not burn internally much less explode. A propane tank that has been properly purged will have an Oxygen concentration so low that it will not support combustion. The trucks I serviced had liquid LP injection. They used an electric fuel pump located in the tank to provide 35 -45 psi above tank pressure to keep liquid at the injectors. The fuel pump could have a short life. I replaced about 20 pumps in the eight years I service that system. The tanks had to be purged whenever you had them open. Purging a tank was done by filling the tank propane with vapor and then bleeding off the pressure at least three times.

When I started working for an IH dealership in May of 1975 for a while I did not know there was a gear drive option. All the new ones that were sold were hydrostatic transmission. That may have been because most of them were sold with a loader.

If you want to use NAPA belts be sure get Blade Runner series belts. They will stand up like the old IHC belts but they cost about 2 or 3 times as much as the standard NAPA A series belts.

Don't be silly. The picture is for the Australian viewers.

The center housing change does not necessarily signify that the tractor came with the black stripe trim package. If you look at the parts book it lists the serial number when the trim package changed. Other changes were phased in during the production run but I don't think the serial numbers were listed when the occurred. The rear housing was one of the first changes since it had to be in place before the center section change so there was a place to put the serial number. I know there were many tractors built with the serial number change provision with the actual number still on the clutch housing. I am not sure but I seem to remember a few new tractors came through with the serial number relocated that still had the old center section.

I have three of them that I used before I got my barrel stand. They each hold 65 gallons.

In the 50's oil was stored the the fuel shed in a 15 or 30 gallon drum. The glass jar and spout was the only method of adding oil the the tractors. May 25 will be 50 years since I started working at the local IH dealership. I know the was not that long ago.🙂

I'm not sure of the current purpose but originally it was made to be used as the coaster brake lever for a bicycle with a New Departure wheel hub. Much of my early mechanical experience came from replacing the drag spring and clutch washers in those axles. The local hardware stores always had those parts in stock.

OBG referred to him as Farmall Kid