130 numbers

Mike

My Super A has the date codes on every casting on the tractor. My 130 and 140 have them on those 4 main castings and a few of the others but not all.

Right now, I'm calling your tractor a 1958 Farmall 130, and someone has either changed the hood or changed the decals on the hood. A band with the word McCormick about 5/8" high and 8" long should be there whether Farmall or International.

Another item you might try is using a cleaner like Comet or SOS rub the serial tag, you may just highlight the stamped numbers enough to read them. A lot of 130, 230, 330, 350 and 450 are tags are hard to read, they were that way from new. IH must have had a guy with a tack hammer stamp those tags. I've looked at a lot of tractors in the last few years and the tags on letter and super letter series Farmalls are in much better shape than 00, 30-50 or 40-60 series tractors and 30-50 are the poorest.

Differences are the main hood side decal FARMALL or INTERNATIONAL and the International has a foot throttle and the heavy duty square axle. The square axle was also an option on the Farmall. Also all high clears with 36" rear and 19" front tires I've seen had the square axle, I'm not certain but the square axle could be standard in that case.

Historically I'm betting IH never put a set of those wheels on a Super A after 1952, or any of 100 and 130, at least not at the factory. There were enough farmers across North America having had experience with 6787 DE wheels, anything would be an improvement.

No, I wasn't making fun of your 130 #6787 DE front wheels. I must say I was having a bit of a chuckle about your SA1 assembly line, especially that serial tag installed with soft steel rivits.

Let me assure you, I can read a casting date code, and I have a hunch Mike can as well. Nice photo, however I doubt if any Farmall 130 came from the factory with those front wheels.

That engine number 58727 in my opinion is within 130 production. I know the stats book is saying 58560 however, given the quality of record keeping at IH, close will count. Since 130 and 230 were sharing a common sequence of engine numbers and the stats are saying 230 7671 had engine 57745, and 130 was 10209 with engine 58560, and these numbers I have don't say those were the last of each tractor. It only states that a certain engine that went into a particular tractor. Remember the engine sequence did continue and the first 140-240s had engines in the 65000 range.

My 130 has 56651 engine and tractor serial 9313, 896 before the end according to stats. Your block part number is correct for a 130. Farmall 130 would not have had foot throttle, International should have foot throttle. Maybe someone has installed wrong decals. Does it have square axle?