[Farmall] Fwd: [SEL] OT IH M tractor question for a friend

[E. John Puckett]

Since it is a sleeved engine, why not put a kit in it?

On 4/26/2011 11:18 AM, Dave Merchant wrote:
> Forwarded from the SEL list, forwarded from a car forum......
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>> I got this from our car forum, a friend is asking...... any M and Super M
>> experts here??
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>> Hey Guys, I hauled a '53 Farmall Super M home last weekend. It has been
>> sitting unused for about 30 years and the engine, of course, is seized. I
>> have found a running engine but it is from a regular M tractor. I've
>> searched online and I'm fairly certain the engines are the same. The only
>> exception is, the Super M has a live hydraulic pump in with the
>> distributor drive and the regular M does not. A regular M has the
>> hydrualic pump mounted under the belly of the tractor back on the
>> transmission. I'm wondering if the live hydraulic pump from the Super M
>> can be mounted on the distributor drive section of the regular M engine?
>> I'm hoping there is a Farmall M expert here that can help me out. The
>> engine I'm looking to buy is super cheap for a running tractor engine and
>> if it will work on my Super M like normal I want to buy it as quickly as
>> possible before someone else does. Knowing if the hydraulic pump will bolt
>> to the M engine is the only thing keeping me from buying it.
>>
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> Dave Merchant
> kosh at nesys.com
> dmerchant at layerzero.com
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