1951 Farmall A Exhaust Lift Lever

Hello,
I have a 1951 Farmall A with the exhaust lift lever. I have everything on but the cylinder which I just got today. Does anyone know how the cylinder mounts onto the tractor and does anyone have pictures of the cylinder mounted on where I can actually see the brackets. Also I have the pulley and arm that attaches at the top of the cylinder and the arm and pulley that attach to the implements, is there supposed to be a belt or rope that stretches between the pulleys? I have the owners manual on the lift lever but it doesn't tell me anything about these things and it doesn't show it either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Two sources. Gene Bender on this site has a couple of these units in good working order and knows a lot about them. Second, Red Power Magazine has a back issue you can order with an article on exhaust lifts.

if iam right there aer 2 difrent cylinders 1 for culavator and 1 for the pl. the one for the culavator has the pully and the one for the plow dos not. when gene gits on hear he will know. Bob

The exhaust lift system was an attachment to the tractor. It included the 2 valves, the lever and an assortment of brackets, a pipe and linkage to attach it to the tractor and operate it. It also included 1 cylinder and a hose to connect the cylinder to the control valve. These parts are ALL shown in the attachments section of the A/B Parts Catalog.

All (or at least nearly all) mounted implements were designed for hand lift. To use the exhaust lift required separate attaching parts to connect the cylinder to the implement. IH packaged implements and the exhaust lift parts together, including them as "special" equipment. The same cylinder was used for all implements but the mounting would be totally different from one to another. Without an implement, there really wasn't any place to mount the cylinder.

The most common mounting is probably the one for the cultivators, which was common to most styles of cultivators. The cylinder mounted upright next to the left side of the radiator. There was a pulley near the top of the cylinder that guided a cable from the cylinder back through a tube to more pulleys to move a lever/quadrant assembly and lift the cultivators.

Second most common is probably the plow. This mounted the cylinder near horizontal, anchored on the bell housing and directly pushing a rear rockshaft.

These packages were generally documented in a separate instruction manual but may have also been included as "special" equipment in the implement manual.