Farmall Super A

The serial numbers have NO letter prefix on the Seat bracket. All the research I have done says that there should be a letter prefix. There are numbers and then below another 4 digit number. I can add numbers tomorrow AM. The numbers match 1951... Is this ODD or typical?

I bought the tractor from the original owner/family and I know they have not altered the numbers. They SOLD it for near nothing.

The other question is regarding the drive shaft area... Around the PTO and the axle areas I am losing quite a bit of oil... I pulled the belly mower and began crawling under and there is a "hole" does not appear to be threaded and I can see the GEARS... There is a leak here. Is this TYPICAL? I have topped all fluids and was not sure if this was overflow?

Again, I am not real inclined but had to have this tractor for the shear NOSTALGIA...

Thanks in Advance

HighPockets

It doesn't seem that the Super A had the other suffix codes the big tractors had. My Super A was originally a distillate and it does not have any letters in the serial number indicating this.

Al

Again, I am not real inclined, so enjoy the "dumb" questions.

The hole is at would be the rear axle, but to the left... I will look more today...

Thanks for the input.

Is the hole you are speaking of almost directly below the gear shift lever on the bottom side of transmission case? May be a shade closer to rear of tractor.

That is correct. It is where the right axle housing ties into the transmission... It appears manufactured about the diameter of my pinky finger... There is also one at the flywheel only it is much bigger at the flywheel and oblong...

Brush painted, straight, mechanically sound... Love it...

Yesterday was its first work around the house. Bought an A60 and mounted that last week, graded the drive to eliminate bad washboard. Pretty impressive and FUN...

Again, thankyou...

HighPockets

I have owned 16 Farmalls in my lifetime and always ran all of them a bit over full on transmission-rear end. These 16 tractors were in size all the way from Super A to 1066. Over the years I had very little transmission problems. The hydraulic systems on the newer big tractors that drew hydraulic oil from transmission worked a bit better that way. In contrast to this NEVER let your engine crankcase get over full. Farmalls will pop engine seals quite quickly if over full. I always like to run my Farmalls very close to add mark on crankcase oil.

I know how much you are enjoying this little tractor with blade. If you live in snow country, these are one mean little snow plowing machine. Years ago my dad had 300 and 130. Always plowed snow with 300 as bigger was better. A guy near us plowed his snow with a Super A and an A-60 blade. Dad always said that little Super A made the 300 look bad. I always said if I didn't have a big tractor around I'd plow snow with 130, and I do. When I moved here two years ago, I didn't realize this driveway was worst in neighborhood for snow. A neighbor offered to plow me out with his 150hp 4x4 Ford. I told him I would only disturb him if in trouble. Apparently the whole neighborhood found it amusing that I expected to keep plowed out with 130. The 130 prevailed, however the west winds prevail here also, so I will curb my confidence a bit. Maybe I've not seen the worst snow yet.