Small tank on M.

Baelee05 · Dec 24, 2012

Well the project continues. My 39 M has the hole in the hood for the small fuel tank but there is no evidence it ever had one. Obviously a lot of things have probably been changed in the past 73 years but I have no way of knowing if it actually ever had one. Help me out here guys. Did all of the 39 M's have the dual fuel setup or was it an option? If an option did the tractors without this option still have a hole for the tank in the hood? I'm not going to switch manifolds back but would consider rounding up a tank and installing it to fill the space if it was a standard feature. Thanks.

Ed Junior · Dec 24, 2012

I have a small tank if your interested e mail me back

Zachary Hoyt · Dec 24, 2012

I don't know about the M but on the H the gasoline tractors that were supplied without the starting tank did not have a hole in the hood. My H was a distillate tractor but when I got a gas H in for parts I kept the hood so it didn't have the extra hole. If you don't want to get a tank you could maybe think of something else to put in the hole that would be useful or interesting, I don't know.
Zach

CNKS · Dec 24, 2012

According to Guy Fay's Data Book, the first gasoline only H was built on March 29, 1940; first gasoline only M had serial # 18144, no date given but was about mid 1940. So all H's and M's up to that number had the hole in the hood, along with most 1941-1946 because of gas shortages in WWII.

randy hall · Dec 24, 2012

(quoted from post at 22:49:50 12/24/12) Well the project continues. My 39 M has the hole in the hood for the small fuel tank but there is no evidence it ever had one. Obviously a lot of things have probably been changed in the past 73 years but I have no way of knowing if it actually ever had one. Help me out here guys. Did all of the 39 M's have the dual fuel setup or was it an option? If an option did the tractors without this option still have a hole for the tank in the hood? I'm not going to switch manifolds back but would consider rounding up a tank and installing it to fill the space if it was a standard feature. Thanks.[/ quote] the '39 m's all had the starting tank. hi compression gasoline only engines came later.

Baelee05 · Dec 24, 2012

Sounds like it should have a tank. I'll round one up and put it on. Ed Junior, there are two different tanks for early and late models. I think the early ones have a real short neck.

2+2 Guy · Dec 25, 2012

Baelee05,
I am in the final stages of restoring a 46'M that my Dad bought new when he came home from WWII. It origanlly had the starting tank and I can remember it on the tractor as a young boy. Some time in the 60's it was removed to be used on another application.

I found a replacement for it and have it installed. I was able to purchase a new sediment bowel for it with the 3 ports like it would have originally had. If I remember Joe's Farmall Parts had the correct sediment bowell assembly. I'm not 100% sure that I have it plumbed correctly but it works.

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