M/Super M Gear Shift Lever

Anonymous-0 · Jan 24, 2012

I have a question that I have posed to some of my Farmall friends off and on for the past several years and it has stumped them all. I have a 1953 Super M with the live hydraulic pump and the gear shift lever on it is what I consider to be the "straight" lever, as it has the single bend in it just a bit above the cap where it is placed into the top of the transmission. I seem to recall seeing both M's and Super M's with what I call the "crooked" lever, where it has two bends in the lever. I know for sure we had stored an "M" for a friend of my dad's at our farm, and I believe this was an early to mid 1940's M, and it had the "crooked" lever. Can anyone tell me the story behind the two different gear shift levers?

D Slater · Jan 24, 2012

Older ones had a bend at the bottom. rest had a double bend until SM with battery under seat started then a bend at the bottom. But not the same as some others with one bend. H and M levers interchanged along with some different replacement numbers installed over the years makes finding several different ones probable.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 24, 2012

Can you post a pic. My H has a straight shaft shifter and someone had put a homemade one on my M. I would like to see what a stock one needs to be for the M. It's a 1944 year model.

rustyfarmall · Jan 25, 2012

(quoted from post at 19:21:46 01/24/12) Can you post a pic. My H has a straight shaft shifter and someone had put a homemade one on my M. I would like to see what a stock one needs to be for the M. It's a 1944 year model.

The stock shift lever for a '44 M is just like the one on your H. In fact, the 2 will interchange.

lblock · Jan 26, 2012

(reply to post at 19:21:46 01/24/12)

his is the one on my 52 super m.

Larry

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2012

Waht you showed in this picture is what I remember on that "M" we stored for a friend. Was there some sort of reason or purpose for the double bend? Was it to provide additional clearance next to the steering post when shifting into 4th gear? Or was it simply some sort of a change that was made without any purpose. This has been one of those things that has been a bit of a mystery to me.

D Slater · Jan 26, 2012

Think it could have something to do with the seats. Gear shift with double bend and the hydraulic seat attachment came out about the same time. Think that was in 1947.

lblock · Jan 27, 2012

well on mine at least if you didnt have that bend your fingers would be bloody from the front of the seat pan.

Larry O

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