Head Question Follow Up

Bouncer

Well-known Member
I went back out and cleaned the head off good and it does appear the casting number was ground off. Because there are a couple castings for the valve guides have the edges distorted on them from what looks like a grinder. I am attaching a couple pics and the only other markings I can find is a 5-20-L casting code on the outside. Also found what appears to be a hand stamped number on the back carb side of the #4 cylinder. I took a pic but it is hard to see. The hand stamped number is 3574. I guess since the casting codes are gone I will never know what head it is. I also included a pic of the way the governor was set up. I got new stop screws in it and a new spring. I will fire it up tomorrow and see what other adjustments needs to be made, because I think someone has messed with the linkage running inside the governor as well.

Also disregard the way the oil looks, the flash made it come out that way. You can see in the first pic that it is fine.

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Thats not the only head around with the cast # ground off. Some are repaired there and who knows all the other reasons. If the stamped # is suposed to be what the head was, 8574 is a gasoline head for a M. Without the suffix letters can't say if it was cast in 1942 or in the 60 tees. 8574 DC was made as a replacement maybe 10 years after the tractors were made. If the head has a hole at rear for the vent line its probably a M or SM head. Combustion chamber check may be the only option to tell. From the looks of the head studs sticking up, they are longer, or the head or block has material removed.
 

The head that is on my M also has the numbers ground off also. I mentioned this to my local machine shop guy and he said that is because the head was cracked and has been repaired. He also mentioned that quite often the shop that did the repair will then stamp the number into a different area on the head.
 

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