[SEL] OT IH M tractor question for a friend

[Judge Tommy Turner]

Bill, 
     Try this before you start pulling engines, etc.  Mix up a pint of acetone and a pint of auto trans fluid.  Remove the spark plugs and put some in each cylinder.  Let It set for at least a week.  Pull the starter and take a pry bar and pry against the ring gear to break it loose.  My dad was an M Farmall guy and I've seen him on more than one occasion do this.  I remember him doing this with an M one morning and that afternoon we had it in the field pulling a hay wagon.  You don't have anything to lose but a little time.

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY

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> Subject: [SEL] OT IH M tractor question for a friend
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> I got this from our car forum, a friend is asking...... any M and Super M
> experts here??
> 
> Hey Guys, I hauled a '53 Farmall Super M home last weekend. It has been
> sitting unused for about 30 years and the engine, of course, is seized. I
> have found a running engine but it is from a regular M tractor. I've
> searched online and I'm fairly certain the engines are the same. The only
> exception is, the Super M has a live hydraulic pump in with the
> distributor drive and the regular M does not. A regular M has the
> hydrualic pump mounted under the belly of the tractor back on the
> transmission. I'm wondering if the live hydraulic pump from the Super M
> can be mounted on the distributor drive section of the regular M engine?
> I'm hoping there is a Farmall M expert here that can help me out. The
> engine I'm looking to buy is super cheap for a running tractor engine and
> if it will work on my Super M like normal I want to buy it as quickly as
> possible before someone else does. Knowing if the hydraulic pump will bolt
> to the M engine is the only thing keeping me from buying it.
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