wheel weights attatchment

realolman · Dec 16, 2010

Will wheel weights from a 400 row crop fit a similar year 300 utility?

How are multiple wheel weights attached, anyway?

What holds on the first set while the second set is installed? First ,second while third set attached?...etc.

I just bought a couple sets of weights from a guy who thought they would fit a 300u.

I took his word for it, and I haven't measured or anything yet... going to look into it today... but they certainly don't look the same as the set that's already on there.

If it turns out that they don't fit... could I drill and tap some holes or something to make them fit?

Randy in NE · Dec 16, 2010

The first set gets installed using the inner 4 holes. Then the second one is installed using the outer holes and the slots around the outside of the weight. Another option is to use 3/4" readi-rod and bolt them all together.

mkirsch · Dec 16, 2010

Did the weights come off a 400 row crop?

If so they will NOT fit a 300 utility easily.

If they will fit inside the rim and up against the wheel center, you can manufacture something to adapt them and bolt them on.

Originally, IH only intended for TWO sets of weights to be installed. It's right there in the owner's manual. They go on as Randy describes.

If you want to install 3+ sets of weights, I recommend the "reddi-rod" aka "all-thread" or "threaded rod" method...

Use four pieces of all-thread that are long enough to bolt all the weights on at once. Install them with a nut on either side of the wheel center so you now have four solid "studs" sticking out of the wheel center. Slide on the weights.

rustyfarmall · Dec 16, 2010

(quoted from post at 07:01:56 12/16/10) Did the weights come off a 400 row crop?

If so they will NOT fit a 300 utility easily.

If they will fit inside the rim and up against the wheel center, you can manufacture something to adapt them and bolt them on.

Originally, IH only intended for TWO sets of weights to be installed. It's right there in the owner's manual. They go on as Randy describes.

If you want to install 3+ sets of weights, I recommend the "reddi-rod" aka "all-thread" or "threaded rod" method...

Use four pieces of all-thread that are long enough to bolt all the weights on at once. Install them with a nut on either side of the wheel center so you now have four solid "studs" sticking out of the wheel center. Slide on the weights.

I guess that depends on when the owners manual was printed as they are not all the same concerning the installation of wheel weights. I'd need to refresh my memory a bit, but I'm pretty sure the owners manual for the McCormich #31 loader DOES have instructions for installing, and actually recommends 3 full sets of rear wheel weights. The first 2 sets are to be installed using the same, l o n g bolts, and the third set is bolted into the notches of the OUTER weight.

realolman · Dec 16, 2010

I just looked and it does not look good.... for what seems to me to be a pretty ignorant reason...

looks to me like the bolt holes are 11 1/2" apart on the set of weights that is already on there and 12" apart on the "new" two sets.

What the heck is up with that? They just [b:857e5629c2]had[/b:857e5629c2] to make one 1/2" closer together than the other ?!?!?

Good grief!

rustyfarmall · Dec 16, 2010

The wheel weights for the row crop tractors will readily interchange from a Farmall H all the way up through the last IH row crop tractor built, but they will NOT interchange with the utility tractors.

mkirsch · Dec 16, 2010

You can go two ways with that...

1. IH had nefarious intentions. They made the dimensions different to FORCE you to buy different weights when you switched tractors!

2. IH made a mistake. It was before computer integrated design, so two different engineers in two different groups designed the two different tractors. Left hand had no idea what the right hand was doing, basically.

I think, though that the utility weights fit all the utility models. I do know that the Farmall weights fit all the Farmall models, from the H on up to the 88 series.

What I'd do is weld up some "offset" bolts or an adapter plate of some sort to adapt the utility wheels to the Farmall weights.

This may be sacrilege to some, but you could use an acetylene torch to widen the holes on the Farmall weights to make them fit.

Utility weights are tough to come by.

realolman · Dec 16, 2010

not sacrilege to me..... are those things steel or cast iron?

i also like the offset bolt idea...

the guy who sold them to me is a friend of mine... I know he thought they'd fit.... an I know he has a lot of experience pulling tractors and with internationals so I just took his word for it..... I suppose he doesn't have experience with the utility models. Sounds like they do fit everything else.

I 'm sure he'd give me my money back , but I'd rather use them

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