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44 H with disc brakes?

They are not IH brakes, although they are in the parts book. They were an option made by Lambert. If you look at the housing there will be 3 bolts holding them on instead of 5. IH disk brakes became standard on the last few H and M tractors in the last year of production.
 
(quoted from post at 18:09:20 05/12/11) They are not IH brakes, although they are in the parts book. They were an option made by Lambert. If you look at the housing there will be 3 bolts holding them on instead of 5. IH disk brakes became standard on the last few H and M tractors in the last year of production.
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Could your retro disc brakes?

Another possibility is that there was a rear end problem and the 44 H rear end was replaced with a SH/Late M rear end.
 
Far as I know, you can replace the band brakes with Lambert, but I don't think the IH brakes will fit the earlier tractors. Whether or not the rear end was replaced can be partially determined by the number of bolts holding the brake housing, along with casting codes.
 
(quoted from post at 19:19:02 05/12/11) Far as I know, you can replace the band brakes with Lambert, but I don't think the IH brakes will fit the earlier tractors. Whether or not the rear end was replaced can be partially determined by the number of bolts holding the brake housing, along with casting codes.
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I have a 1950 H that DID have the Lambert disk brakes. The right side brake started dragging and wouldn't fully release, so I took it apart. Found a bunch of broken springs and other messed up parts that couldn't be fixed. I converted the H back to the original band style brakes and those work better than the Lamberts ever did. In my opinion, the disk brakes were NOT an improvement.
 
I unloaded a Super M from Steel Wheel Ranch off of a semi last summer. I expected the brakes to be weak, but they worked on level ground. I carefully backed it onto the ramps with my foot on the brakes, and it was probably going 5 mph before I hit bottom. Luckily I was lined up perfectly or I would be dead. Never again--. I did that once off my low car trailer with my 460 when I bought it. I knew that one had 0 brakes, so it was simply a matter of lining it up. The SM was as scarier than I wanted it to get.
 
(quoted from post at 07:38:56 05/13/11) I unloaded a Super M from Steel Wheel Ranch off of a semi last summer. I expected the brakes to be weak, but they worked on level ground. I carefully backed it onto the ramps with my foot on the brakes, and it was probably going 5 mph before I hit bottom. Luckily I was lined up perfectly or I would be dead. Never again--. I did that once off my low car trailer with my 460 when I bought it. I knew that one had 0 brakes, so it was simply a matter of lining it up. The SM was as scarier than I wanted it to get.
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Same thing with my SMTA off a tilt bed. Had the trailer on the highway for sale that week.
 
I haven't used one, but I am leery of tilt beds. However, if you had the tractor on straight, at least you had more room for error than the ramps the semi had. Although I suppose yours could turn over backwards. At least the tractors didn't turn over on us.
 
The bed slammed down and I'm still not sure if it was all the way down when the tractor fell/drove off. After that experiance I will back them on whenever possible as well. It makes coming off a lot nicer.

Are you sure you couldn't change the bull pinion shafts and then put on disc brakes? I thought I heard that somewhere, but I can't retain all of the stuff I read. You also don't know how much is true until you do it yourself either.
 
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