I farmed with a 1568 for a few years, and we still have it tucked away in the barn gathering dust. My experience with it was more from an operator's view.
It is loud. When I had to farm on it all day I wore ear muffs and had cotton in my ears. The ear muffs gave me a headache. We would only get about a year out of the mufflers before they would burn out, so we ended up putting straight pipes on it. The naturally aspirated engine would make the manifolds and bottom six inches of the mufflers glow a dull red on a dark night and the mufflers just wouldn't last.
We did not have this tractor turned up and it didn't have the horse power we were getting from the 14 or 15 with a six. We did have more weight on the 1568, and I always thought it was balanced well and it pulled a 27 foot disk well.
In my opinion the V8 68 series didn't offer much. I don't think the lower-end of that engine was designed to hold up to the kind of horsepower we were turning out of the six-cylinders and we did change the crank and rod bearings once, and they needed it.
Now that I am older I have good memories of farming with the fire-breathing bellering V8 and I enjoyed having something a little different on the farm. If I think about it I can still hear it as it turns around on the end of the forty and drops the disk in the ground.
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