1941 farmall h

hi i have some questions about my h i hope some one can help ,me with first what seat and pto was standerd in 1941 and mine is a kerosene model and there is part of a sticker left on the hood by the small gas tank that seems to me to be intrustions on how switch it from gas to kero does anybody no where i can get one or has any body ever seen one on a tractor or might be able to tell me where i could get a pic of it thanks for the help

Decals are readily available. The sticker said to put gasoline only in this tank. (it may have said additional things). The Switch is made by closing the shutters in the front of the radiator, and possibly if cold out adjusting the manifold heat control, then turning on the gasoline tank to the carb. Then starting the tractor as normal on gasoline. After about 6 to 10 minutes of getting to the field or such, it will be warm enough to run on distillate (switch the tank valves)(don't do this unless you are demonstrating it, the fuel is not available, it is not kerosene, and would need to be blended to get even close)
Close attention must be paid to engine temperature as they run best near a boil.
To shut down, the tractor is idles for a few minutes to cool it some, and then run out of distillate by shutting the distillate valve and letting it run out of fuel. JimN

hi the h i got is a keroseane model not the dist and i did see the sticker that goes on the top of the hood but i mean the one on the side by the hoodlatch that gave the instructions on ho to switch it to kero i know how to switch it but i am trying to make mine orignal and i wanted to either buy that decal or if i knew what it said exactly i could get one made and by chance what seat and pto came factory on the 1941 model h

You can find drawing of correct PTO and seat in Parts Catalog. Go to... caseih.com...click United States...Click parts and sevice, search for parts at top of page...click right here...search for Faemall H. Seat wil be under chassis PTO under attachments. Do not think hydraulic seat was available in 1941.

In addition to what has been already said, I found while operating a 1941 H many years ago in the 1940's on Standard "power fuel" which was a distillate-like tractor fuel that was popular then, that running the carburetor out of the fuel and then draining off any left (provided the carb had a drain valve..our's did) really made starting much easier. When starting we turned on the gasoline valve under the little gas tank and waited 1/2 a minute or so for the carburetor to fill with gas then started up the engine with the shutters closed and waited about 10 minutes before switching off the gas and turning open the fuel valve under the main tank which put it on fuel. The engine usually, if it wasn't too cold, ran and pulled okay on the power fuel then. If it was below freezing it usually took a little longer to warm the engine enough to run it on the power fuel...and if it was real cold we didn't try to use the power fuel at all, filling the main tank with gasoline instead. You did have to monitor the engine temperature and open the shutters when the engine warmed up or it boiled the alcohol/water coolant out very quickly...and that wasn't good.....About "cooked" the poor H once running the hammer mill on the belt and forgot to open the shutters all the way... about scared the poop out of me, but Thank God the H was okay.

That is reason shutters are so hard to find at least in my ares. Hired hand drivers would close shutters in morning and forget to keep check on temperatue running tractors hot. As soon as better grade fuel was avaiable in late fortys most shutter were removed. Remember several sets for Ms hanging in Dads shed but they eventually disappeared probaly for scrap

Kerosene model? Never heard of it.

The parts catalog lists a bunch of seats and PTOs. I am not sure that will solve the dilema. Is the hydraulic seat an option? Why doesn't it list s/ns associated with the seat. The PTO should be a little more straight forward. I didn't look at that.

yes i seen it on the ih site it lists all the parts from the first year right up till the last year but it does not tell you exactly witch one was used in what year like for example the pto i have a 41 and a 40 and the 41 has a little pto and the 40 has a big one was it changed or is it all in how it was ordered from the factory and yes they did make a kerosene model it started on gas then you switched to kerosene it is like the distillate but used kerosene if it has x3 on the serial tag it means it is a kerosene tractor check this website out it gives alot of info on that part http://www.farmall-h.com/ check the dateing your h section or if you got a it shop manual it tells you in there

hi here is a section that i copyed from another website that tells you about reading the serial tag and explains how to tell if your tractor was gas or kerosene or distillate The most frequently asked question I get is "how can I find out what year my Farmall H was made?". That's easy if it still has its serial number tag. On a Farmall H, HV, Super H, or Super HV, the serial number tag should be on the left side of the clutch housing. For an H or HV, the number should start with "FBH", followed by the actual serial number, possibly followed by one or more other codes. A Super H or Super HV will start with "SH", but will otherwise be similar. Just look up the serial number in the table below to find the year. For example, if you had an H whose serial number plate said "FBH123456X1", you could extract the serial number, 123456, and by looking at the table you'd find that it was produced in 1943, probably fairly early in the year. The "X1" suffix is very common, and indicates a gasoline engine (higher compression, and without the secondary starting fuel tank used on distillate engines. Tractors without X1 will likely have a small secondary gas tank used for gasoline, to start and warm up the engine before switching to distillate.). "X3" means kerosene. For a complete listing of codes, check Guy Fay's excellent "International Harvester Tractor Data Book".

IF you will look a little closer you will see serial number range each seat and PTO was used on. The curved pipe seat was standard on all Hs after channel iron seat was discontinued. The shock type seat was optional not sure when it was first offered.

(quoted from post at 20:10:00 07/29/09) yes i seen it on the ih site it lists all the parts from the first year right up till the last year but it does not tell you exactly witch one was used in what year like for example the pto i have a 41 and a 40 and the 41 has a little pto and the 40 has a big one was it changed or is it all in how it was ordered from the factory and yes they did make a kerosene model it started on gas then you switched to kerosene it is like the distillate but used kerosene if it has x3 on the serial tag it means it is a kerosene tractor check this website out it gives alot of info on that part http://www.farmall-h.com/ check the dateing your h section or if you got a it shop manual it tells you in there

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Also you want to keep in mind that the P.T.O. was optional, and the tractor may originally come from the factory WITHOUT a P.T.O. and then it was added later but not until the later style was being used.