dipstick on super c?

karl f · Jul 14, 2008

casting codes and tractor s/n place the tractor at 52.
there is a dipstick below the oil filter. one side says "engine off," other says "engine running power unit only." there is also no serial number on the block. the date code and casting number have a lot of crud, possibly casting sand/casting defects so they are not readable. the oil pan has the check cocks.

my guess is it is a replacement or power unit block.

what do you think?

karl f

Anonymous-0 · Jul 14, 2008

My guess is that your guess is correct.

karl f · Jul 14, 2008

i guess that if you guess that i guessed correctly, it might be the answer.

one more guess in there and we"ll all be confused

karl f

TractormanNC · Jul 14, 2008

FWIW, I have a Farmall 130 which has the same dipstick markings. Tractor was bought new by my dad and the dipstick or the engine has never been changed.

sammy the RED · Jul 14, 2008

Wellllllll, I guess that your guesses may be incorrect, according to Tractor Man from N.C. :shock:

Anonymous-0 · Jul 14, 2008

It's not like I know for a fact, but my understanding was the Super C was the last one to have petcocks and the next model has a dipstick. Lots of C's around with dipsticks but the blocks are out of combines or balers or newer tractors, like a 130. There is a '50, two 52's and a '53 in my yard and they all have petcocks. A guy down the road has a C with a dipstick and it still has the yellow salvage yard writing on the side of the block. On a semi-related note, does it seem to anyone else that 113-123 blocks are more crack-prone than other IH gas blocks?

Hugh MacKay · Jul 15, 2008

Karl: Probably a block from a 100 or 200. I may even be an original block, and someone has drilled it for a dipstick. All blocks, part number 354898 R1 were cast with provission for dipstick. Those blocks were all used in SC and SA after serial number 310300. 100 and 200 use the same block except it's 354898 R2 and IH drilled the dipstick hole.

All 100, 200, 130 and 230 have that dipstick with reading on one side for engine running and other side engine stopped.

Athol Carr · Jul 15, 2008

The original Farmall Super A engine of 1948 has a dip-stick pad on the block just below the oil filter. The F-12, O-12 etc. 113 cubic inch engines of the the 1930s also had a dip-stick pad on the block though the only tractors that were normally fitted with dip-sticks were the I-12 and Fairway 12 tractors. I have a 1941 W-4 that has a dip-stick (not IH as far as I can tell) with the hole drilled through the dip-stick pad on the right-hand side of the block

mkirsch · Jul 15, 2008

Has anybody checked the one on the seat?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

karl f · Jul 15, 2008

from my observation, it"s that the users broke the front end of the tractor off!

karl f

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