Hello,I have been at the JD site for many years now, and this is my first visit to the Farmall forum. A few days ago, someone gave to me a Farmall H. A quick S/N search indicates that it is a mid 1940 model. The X1 on the tag seems to mean that it was intended to only be used with gasoline as a fuel. The sheet metal is in great shape and so are the cast wheels. The rear rims are corroded somewhat, but don't appear to be too far gone. Tires are fair. The engine doesn't turn freely by hand when grabbing the front pulley, so it may be stuck. The only very obvious missing pieces are the tube from the air cleaner to the carb, and the carb itself. The only obvious defective part is the combination intake and exhaust manifold. Toward the bottom of the exhaust portion of the manifold, there is a hole the size of a pencil eraser facing the outside of the tractor. Since I am still learning about Farmalls, and undecided as to whether to keep and restore this tractor, I have not purchased a shop manual and parts manual. In the meantime, would anybody know what the part numbers are for the carb, air tube, and manifold? I would like to price them out, and I'd like to be able to reference the correct part numbers. One last item. It appears that there were 391,000 H's made, and that there were more 1940 H's made than pretty much any other year. Is there anything else good or bad about this year? Thank you,
Greg
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