Drove this H home from an auction Sunday.

Crashfarmer

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It runs down the road nice. Zooming along about 25mph. My M's front wheels wobble quite a bit in road gear but this H went straight down the road.
But it has a dipstick, I didn't think anything about it at the time but I've been looking around the internet and most sources say that H's didn't have dipsticks. I thought maybe it was a later one?

I guess I'll have to look up the numbers.

My 1940 M doesn't have one.

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Nice working clothes H. Dipstick bosses were present in some blocks, and Power unis had dipsticks from day one. Nice snow bucket Jim
 
Nice H.

One of dads old friends was the head mechanic for the local Ih dealer back in the 50's. Floyd told me he used to drill the block
and add dipsticks to H and M tractors.
 
Looks like a H casting number on the engine block. Check the engine serial number stamped just to right of distributor body in the picture, can see some of it.. Dipstick would be added later to that block.
 
D Slater is right on . First thing to do is look at that serial no. It should match serial no. on clutch housing. The oil filter is for middle of 1942 back to 1939 and
front wheels correct for tractor below 1949. looks like a early 42 down to middle of 1940 model with new wide r. rims.Does it still have the 2 oil check levers on oil
pan? Has new distributer in place of magneto. Good looking H. Buck
 
Shoot my H only runs about 11-12 mph down the road in road gear. I used to drive her to a local show and it was 11 miles from home to the park and it took right at an hour to get her there. Coarse that was when she had smaller tires on the rear.............Kenny
 
Yep BIG OLE snow bucket attachment on that Stan-Hoist loader.
Dad's '51 M out in the shop has a loader just like that on it.
But since the loader was used & abused for 55 years with a hopped
up M there's patches on top of patches on top of patches, bet
there's ten pounds of extra welding rod on it! I have both the 40
inch manure bucket with dirt plate and 80 inch materials/snow
bucket. I put 900# of weights on it 9 years ago, with the tire
chains on it really pushes snow.

Nice looking old H. I bet it turns out to be a '40. Nice that the
tractor has 2-way hydraulic, too bad it isn't live hyd.
 
Going to say it's a 42 model. DE suffix engine casting number started during 41 but if the engine mounts, frame rails and oil filter housing are original that pretty well makes it a 42. Can't see good enough in the picture to be sure but looks like the front wheel hubs are a later model.
 
(quoted from post at 20:12:28 09/08/15) D Slater is right on . First thing to do is look at that serial no. It should match serial no. on clutch housing. The oil filter is for middle of 1942 back to 1939 and
front wheels correct for tractor below 1949. looks like a early 42 down to middle of 1940 model with new wide r. rims.Does it still have the 2 oil check levers on oil
pan? Has new distributer in place of magneto. Good looking H. Buck

Checked the serial numbers, they match and it's a 1944.

It still has the 2 oil checkers in the pan.

I find it really interesting that the dipstick has a full mark on one side that says, "Full Engine Stopped" and on the other side there is a full mark in different location that says, "Full Running Power Unit.
 
Dad's H with 13.6-38 will run 25-26 mph, smooth too. It scoots right along. As a matter of fact, I ruined one of dad's 16" wagon wheels when I was hauling his 8X16 dump wagon with a 10T gear, had it loaded about 3-1/2 or 4' high with Elm and Mulberry when it blew a tire. It was on the rim before I could get it stopped, it flattened the beads on the rim.

Ross
 
Guess someone changed the oil filter housing sometime. IH started using a shorter one near the end of 42.
 

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