[AT] Engine Temp Gauges

[Al Jones]

The very last straight M's had disk brakes.  Knowing IH you probably could get band brakes on the Super M but I was thinking they were discontinued.  The SM would have had the faster transmission.  I have a stage I '53 Louisville SM under the shelter that I will get going one day, it looks just like a straight M--belly pump, etc.

Al

-----Original Message-----
>From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 1, 2010 10:55 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Engine Temp Gauges
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>On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Al Jones <farmallsupera at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> I posted this on the farmall side......I have a next door neighbor, my great-uncle, that owns a '49 Super A straight gas burner, with the temp. gauge and shutters.  It's the only one I have seen in real life, though all that equipment was optional. This tractor has no pto or belt pulley which is sort of unusual too.  It was a grey market tractor so it may've originally been headed for an area where these options were more common before it was, shall we say, "diverted."
>>
>> The Touch Control temp. gauge came later in production, I want to say around '51-'53.  My 48 does not have one, so tractors with the gauge seem strange to me.  I'd love to have a newer Super A with one, just for the sake of having it.
>>
>> Al
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>I'm trying to remember (not always easy) if the Super A became a Super
>A without a HP increase? I seem to recall that the Super C did not get
>a HP boost from the C. Am I recalling that right? If so were there any
>others that became "Super" without a HP boost. The Super M was a fair
>jump from the M and had some other additions as well. Three were a
>bigger clutch and a bigger radiator and a better gear spread.
>Eventually the disk brakes, live hydraulics.
>We had a neighbor that had bought one of the very early  Super M's
>new. It had more engine and was tagged "S - M" but it had the old
>brakes and belly hydraulic pump. I do not recall if it had the
>transmission changes or the bigger clutch and radiator.
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>Francis Robinson
>aka "farmer"
>Central Indiana USA
>robinson46176 at gmail.com
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