Super A cooling question

I could add a water pump if needs be, but if I do, should I also add a temperature gauge (it didn't have a gauge originally)? If I add the pump and guage I am thinking that shutters may also be helpful in getting and keeping the tractor at operating temperature.

Finally, does anyone know what year water pumps, and associated hardware became a factory option on the Super A's?

Thanks for your opinions and help.

I fail to see where you think a front end loader is going to create substancial demand on your tractors cooling system. Front end loaders have never created any great load for tractor engines, all the way from a Super A to a 1466. There are only two ways to load a two wheel drive tractor engine to anyways near it's limit, and that is at the end of the PTO shaft or the hitch, be it drawbar, 3 point or fast hitch.

I would have a lot more concern about a Super A front end and castings standing up to a loader than anything else on the tractor. About the only engineering that ever went into putting front end loaders on these little tractors was customer demand. About all IH engineers would have said back then was make sure the loader wont lift more than 500 lbs.

I suppose you may encounter some cooling problems when you break the front off that block casting, but a water pump wont cure that problem.