No serial #???

Anonymous-0 · May 3, 2009

I received a offer to purchase a purported Farmall 200. No serial number, no chrome 200, insert painted white, so how do I make sure that it is a 200 and not a FSC with hood and top of grill from a 200, missing is the grill. Did all 200's have a hydraulic? Is there any method that a serial # can be replaced? Thanks...Darald in SK

Hugh MacKay · May 3, 2009

Darald: Go first to engine serial number, on a machined flat surface just below number 1 spark plug and stamped on that surface will FMC and a 6 digit number for Farmall SC. I've forgotten the letters for 200, however the number will be under 36000.

Both tractors have hydraulics, in fact all C, SC, 200, 230 and 240 had hydraulics.

If the engine serial number doesn't work for you, or to be sure someone hasn't changed engine, then go to casting date codes. every major casting on the tractor has one, 1/2" high cast in place digits with what looks like a cast in place round head, blade type screw between each of day, month and year. Day and month will be numbers, and year will be a letter. W is 51, X is 52, Y is 53, Z is 54, A is 55, etc. You can got forward or back from that. V was not used, and both U and T were used in 50. Those codes should be within 6 months of each other on an original tractor.

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Mark Peters · May 3, 2009

One other simple thing thats different between a 2oo and a Super C if thats all you`re trying to determine is location of the serial # tag. I realize you said it`s missing, but the 4 rivets or 4 holes from the rivets would still be there. The serial # tag on a Super C is on the right side of the tool box thats under the seat and the 200(and 230, for that matter) has the serial # tag on the left side of the clutch bell housing right above the 1 1/2" hole where you grease the throw out bearing.

Dave_Id · May 3, 2009

Hugh... slight error. U and W were used in 1951. I had a 51 M where all the letters were U, except for the belt pulley housing which had a W. Anyway this info is out of the IH Tractor Data Book.

Hugh MacKay · May 3, 2009

Dave: I don't think anyone is absolutely sure on that one. I've seen original tractors from the early 50s with castings as much as 16 months old when tractor was built. My Super A is one of them June or July 53 tractor. All the castings are X some of them as early as Feb 52. Tractor Data, definitely not gospel in my books. I've seen too many mistakes.

Jim Becker · May 3, 2009

T was the code for 1950.
U and W were both used in 1951.
X was 1952.
These are all pretty well documented by IH. I am sure I have also seen a few V from 1951, although there is nothing to back it up. Maybe I was just looking at some badly cast Ws. At any rate, if you find a V, call it '51.

At times, a year or more of spread on date codes on an individual tractor wasn't unusual. Most of the time the spread wasn't that big.

Guy Fay's Data Book is pretty reliable. Some other easily accessed reference material is full of errors.

Hugh MacKay · May 4, 2009

Jim: I saw enough mistakes in Tractor Data during a 5 min. read in a book store, I kept my money in my pocket, a left the book behind.

rustyfarmall · May 4, 2009

I've never been overly impressed with tractor data either.

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