What's the best manual?

I have a manual for my super A but I guess I need a better one that covers more specs. What would you guys recommend? Mine came from TSC.

From TSC? That would probably be a I&T manual? If so order an IH manual. Those are the only two I know of. You might also want a parts manual. Binder, here, e-bay. I shop around for the best price. Watch e-bay...lots of photocopied versions and they are not always great quality.

The vast majority of what you will find on ebay are "pirated" and are in violation of copyright laws. One of these days Case-IH will wake up and drop the hammer.

By the way, you can still get the manuals you need direct from your local Case-IH dealer also.

I keep four basic books for each of my tractors.

First and always is the Owner's Manual. It has all the lube fill and check points, maintenance schedules and actually has more detail than the service manuals for things like adjusting brakes and clutch pedal free-play, operation and adjustment of the Touch Control and so on.

Then come the Service Manuals. For your Super A, there will be the IH Service Manual. That can be a little touchy as to which one to get. Except for the very last of them, they were built with the 113 motor and would share the book for the A and B/BN, but most of them have been overhauled with 3-1/8" pistons, so that the manual for the 123 version might be more appropriate, but using the tolerances from the book for the 113 is fine. (There were some chassis differences between the A and Super A, but not anything major. I don't hve one, but the manual for the SuperA might also include something about the Touch Control that the manual for the A doesn't.) So that's two. The third would be the I&T IH-8, which covers the entire letter series. Much of what's in it is torn right from the pages of the IH manuals and you have to be careful at times to make sure you're reading about the right tractor, but each (the IH and the I&T) will have things in it that the other doesn't. As f'rinstance, the torque for the flywheel bolts that Keith/OR found is buried in the IH discussion of the crankshaft but not in the I&T, but the I&T has useful other stuff like clutch specs and magneto and distributor advance data. If you're going to work on them a lot, I've found it's well worth having them both.

Fourth is the Parts Catalog. Quite apart from its usefulness in having a part number for a counterman to look up and maybe cross for you, it's invaluable for seeing how things are put together, when they aren't coming apart or going back together the way you think they should. Also, having the names of the parts is sometimes useful in deciphering instructions you'll find in the Service Manuals.

And for the Super A, if you have to get into it, the small manual for the Touch Control is handy. It's a bit better illustrated for its purpose than the Parts Catalog. I've never seen anything useful in helping you sort out all the fifteen gazillion o-rings that come in the kit for rebuilding one (IIRC, you're suppose to have four left over when you're done), but it is helpful all the same.

Myself, I prefer the IH manuals from external_link You can order direct from them, but I think I've heard that theirs are also the ones sold by the CaseIHNHFord dealers that choose to carry them. The other outfit producing them is JenSales, but the one I got from them is consistent with the complaints I've read here about poor quality of reproduction (especially in the half-tone illustrations and other things like page centering . . .). The binderbooks versions are printed on good durable stock and handle well.

Order manuals from your Case IH dealer.

Harold H

Could some of you expand on what you said above? I recently got a 100, and am thinking of manuals

I tried to quote what some of you said, and got the dreaded error. This by the way REALLY pisses me off. That "thing" is way too fussy--you can't even ?? quote?? something in an existing post?

What is TSC, I&T, binder, and


Ya know, it's pretty darn irritating when all ya tryin' ta do is ask a question AND YOU CAN'T EVEN POST SOME WORD THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS ALREADY POSTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(quoted from post at 08:18:46 11/17/09) Order manuals from your Case IH dealer.

Harold H

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Do you think they are price competitive?

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Well I just got back from a frustrating experience with the IHC online order system. They don't show diddly for a (non hydro) 100

I finally searched individually just "Farmall", then "McCormick", super, "super A" and 100

Many of the manuals don't make it crystal clear in the descriptions whether its for a "hydro 100" or the one I need

All I found was this:

Super A AV op manual 1004193R5 27.14

unspecified models touch control SM

GSS1024 11.54

100, 130, 140 parts cat. TC-52B 50.62

I found nothing for A, "Super A" or 100 in the form of a shop, chassis, engine, overhaul etc manual