[AT] Farmall Super M, Stage II, question down in the weeds

[Mike Sloane]

Looking at your image, Dean, I would say that the holes are indeed 
drilled and tapped but filled with the original "factory" cork plugs and 
painted over.

I will look at my very early Super M later today and see if I have the 
same holes.

Mike

On 7/15/2010 9:40 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> Hi gang.  I've noticed something on my recently-acquired late Super M that I
> can't quite figure out.  Cast into the left side of the chassis, right above
> where the Lift-All ports would have been on an M or early Super M, there are
> three small flat vertical faces, each one drilled and tapped for a machine
> screw.  I assume they're mounting bosses for some type of attachment, but
> can't figure out what it might have been.  Any of you folks know?
>
> This evening at the Miami Valley Steam Threshers show in Plain City, Ohio, I
> checked out several other Super Ms.  The Stage I Super Ms, from both Farmall
> Works and Louisville, didn't have the mounting bosses.  The Stage IIs, from
> both Farmall Works and Louisville, did have them, although they weren't
> drilled and tapped like they are on my tractor.  Here's a photo of one of
> the tractors from the show:
> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/Super_M_left_side.jpg.
>
> Anyway, I'm curious what they were used for.  There are no comparable
> mounting points on the right side of the tractor.  The belt pulley drive is
> on the right side of the tractor at about that same relative location, so I
> thought maybe they were used to help secure something that attaches to the
> pulley drive, like the Electrall generators.  But the Electralls didn't come
> out until later, and the Super MTAs and 400s don't have these mounting
> bosses.
>
> Anybody know the story?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
>
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