Red Light on an H Tractor.

Kevin B from Illinois · Sep 22, 2013

A buddy of mines Dad has and H tractor and it has and hour meter mounted on the light bar and a red light on top of the rear taillight were these options back then or added tractor was bought used back in the day and had them on it.

El Toro · Sep 22, 2013

They were probably installed by the owner. I have a yellow light and hour meter on my garden tractor. I installed both, the light will flash when the engine is running. Hal

earlschieb · Sep 22, 2013

My 51 Farmall H came from the factory with that little red light, on top of the rear light. But no hour meter, that would probably have been added on later I would think.

Bob M · Sep 22, 2013

The bullet shaped red light atop the rear work light was a factory option into the early 1950's. (Later production had a red lamp incorporated inside the rear light.)

The hour meter on the light bar was NOT a factory option. The factory hour meter was mounted to the right side of the engine ahead of the distributor; it was driven off the distributor drive.

Note: I've seen a few H/Super H's with fitted with tach/hour meters mounted to the light bar. The meters were cable-driven using distributor drives salvaged from 350(?) tractors.

gene bender · Sep 22, 2013

Some hour meters worked off the sw different ones were made

Red Light on an H Tractor.

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