Some pictures just for Sweetfeet!!!

JD Seller · Sep 1, 2014

I kept an eye out for your brand and color at the Rock River show.

Here are a pair of F-20 tractors with factory wide front ends. I know they made wide fronts for them but I had never seen one that I can remember. They had three there and two where in there "street" cloths. LOL

Here is a F-20 on steel with a wide front end. It looks like it could have been all original. The frame and mounts all looked to be in about the same shape.

Here is another F-20 with a wide front end. It is on rubber tires. It has a different shape to the front axle than the one on steel. I bet the height is different from steel to rubber wheels. This one has been changed. I would think the front end started out on a different tractor. The bolts and all had just been changed. Still looks like an original axle but just off a different tractor.

redforlife · Sep 1, 2014

Conversion to rubber from steel did change the height. It raised the rear up more than the front. Thats why the front end in photo 2 looks like its going down hill. Don't know if it would be a good idea to run it like that to much with dipper rod bearings in the engine. For what its worth, an extension could be added on the trycicle fronts to level the tractor out. Not sure if there was something made to level out the wide fronts or not.

JD Seller · Sep 1, 2014

I think that this tractor would actually set fairly level on flat ground. The ground is sloped a lot where it is setting. It is a lot different than just beside it where the other F-20 is setting.

It still maybe at a slight down hill slope but not as bad as the picture makes it look. I wonder if the "U" shape of the front axle makes it level??? The one on steel has a straighter axle.

36F30 · Sep 1, 2014

(quoted from post at 20:15:47 09/01/14) Conversion to rubber from steel did change the height. It raised the rear up more than the front. Thats why the front end in photo 2 looks like its going down hill. Don't know if it would be a good idea to run it like that to much with dipper rod bearings in the engine. For what its worth, an extension could be added on the trycicle fronts to level the tractor out. Not sure if there was something made to level out the wide fronts or not.

The rods dip oil from there own individual tray filled by the oil pump, that engine can oil itself quite well as long as there is oil around the oil pickup, uphill-downhill-sidehill they are built for it and handle it quite well

SweetFeet · Sep 1, 2014

JD Seller,

Thanks... always love rust - especially on a
Farmall. My husband will enjoy seeing these too!

Everybody's show pics tonight are just great.

We went to an auction today -- looks like EVERYBODY
else went to a show some where. LOL. Auction was
fun too.

Wixitshop · Sep 2, 2014

JD Seller, I like your pictures of the F20's
with wide fronts. Never saw any of them around
here in Dallas County, Iowa. I grew up on F20's
and Regular Farmalls. I have seen them a few
times at shows. We had 36" rubber on the rear of
3 0r 4 of them and the front Shaft that went down
from the steering Gear to the spindles had been
lengthened so the tractor did set level. Also
never saw them with narrow rear Axle except at
shows. Also many of them had 24" or 28" rubber
which made them set level. Lowell Wicks going
on 80 years. Thanks for your participation.

J.Wondergem · Sep 2, 2014

I don't ever remember seeing the spindles at the top side of the king pins before.

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