460 vs 560

Brian

By the time 504 came along IH decided they may as well be all 2-3/4" axles.

There is some discussion about 2-3 years back about the massive axle change on 460s with corn pickers across the corn belt. Names I remember involved, maybe tractor vet, Rusty Farmall, I'm surprised they haven't jumped it here.

Interchangeable items would be some of the sheet metal, electrical items, hydraulic pumps, seat, steering wheel, rims, some parts of the Fast Hitch, some engine parts, and lots of small parts like TA and PTO levers, guages, throttle parts, and on and on. One could spend hours crossing the parts books. This is why I have a 460 book but only own a 660 from the 40-60 series. I like to know what I can use from the smaller, more numerous tractors.

The 460 traces its linage from the H. The 560 from the M.

I broke one on 300 but it didn't twist right off. One of my operators had one break on John Deere, but he was in a ROPS cab. He was in working gears in field, and when he got stopped, wheel was taking weight of tractor wedged between cab and ground, standing almost upright. We figured that one would have been lethal, had it not been for the cab.

We perhaps should be quite vigilant re the axles on some of these older open station row crop tractors. Some of those old tractors have seen some heavy shock loads in their day. In the case of my Deere it was 60% old break, old enough it was rusted.