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How do you make stock basic tractors into TA-tractors?

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I have been cruising the internet lately trying to learn as much as I can about Farmalls and what the possibilities are for modifications. I've read and seen articles where a tractor that came stock from the factory without a TA option was modified somehow to result with a functional TA. For instance, I've seen a picture of a Super B-TA and I'm rather positive B's did not come with TAs. So how is this typically done? If it is relatively easy to do I'd like to modify my 1949 stock H into a H-TA.
Any information you can provide would be great!
Thank you
 
Have you considered using the archives? This topic has been beat to death. If that is too much to ask, why not scroll down a few threads and read the latest one on this subject.

I will also add this comment. Have you heard the phrase "If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it"? In regards to SHTA, I will change it to "If you have to ask how, you can't do it".
 
There are no magic bullets for TAs.
Those made are made from TA tractors being spliced together. A B C farmalls never had TAs and no tractor in that frame size had TAs either.
Thus there is no way to remake in a special way, any tractors into that which you seek.
Purist cringe at the thought of an H with TA.
I do not, but the HTA is pretty simple to make from a good 300 or 350 farmall chassis.
All other added clutch driven gear reduction systems would need to be remanufactured from automatic transmission parts and custom components. Possible not probable without about 50,000 dollars in engineering expenses. Jim
 
Nonsense! I've done a lot of retro fitting and remaking with no guidance. If it's something as simple as grafting two tractors together then you can ask how to do it and go for it!

Rick
 
I'm kind of new at this. I have not been able to figure out what a 'TA' is. Can someone please enlighten me? Thanks.
 
i dunno... i thought IH made an H with a TA. it had live hydraulics, power steering, independent pto, and fast hitch... called it a 300. so now we"re going to take a 300, put a hood off an H on it, and get excited? or go a little deeper and go back to old hydraulics, manual steering, trans. pto, etc?

maybe i"m just a party pooper.
 
Torque Amplifier. It was an IH inline planetary gear reduction assembly. Idea was, for an example, you could be going along plowing in the regular range without the TA. When you hit a piece of heavy ground that might bog you down you could throw the big lever that engaged the TA without clutching or stopping to keep going with less speed/more power.
 
(quoted from post at 17:51:54 10/08/10) Torque Amplifier. It was an IH inline planetary gear reduction assembly. Idea was, for an example, you could be going along plowing in the regular range without the TA. When you hit a piece of heavy ground that might bog you down you could throw the big lever that engaged the TA without clutching or stopping to keep going with less speed/more power.
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Just don't try to use it as an engine brake on the earlier models... they "free-wheel" going down hill in low TA. I believe IH was the first (at least in an ag tractor) to build them in the SMTA model. Other companies soon followed with their own version.
 
The answer is easy, and I'm surprised nobody really touched on it directly:

You DON'T "add" TAs to tractors that never had them.

I suppose you could, given all the computer-driven machining equipment out there. It would be a lot of work and a lot of expense, but it would certainly garner a lot of attention at tractor shows.

What you do is, take a tractor that has a TA, and disguise it to look like another tractor.

In the example of the Super HTA, a 300 is almost the exact same tractor as an H when you remove the steering pedestal and hood. Put an H's steering pedestal and hood on the tractor, and you now have the controversial, mythical, Super HTA.

It's no different from what car guys to to create a "resto-mod." They take a classic muscle car body and stuff the engine, transmission, suspension, features, and options THEY want in the shell.

The Super B-TA is a real stretch. It actually contains no parts from a B, and doesn't even have an IH engine in it!
 
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