Re: Re: Re: 656 v.s. 706

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 02, 2003 at 02:53:05 from (216.208.58.151):

In Reply to: Re: Re: 656 v.s. 706 posted by hr on December 01, 2003 at 19:07:32:

John: An IH technician did this for me. Basically he moved the 282 pump to 706 or 660 specs and rpm. Then he did the rest with pump settings. I am not up on the terminology and don't know exactly what he did. The other thing you must remember this tractor was new. During the 50s, 60s and 70s it was very common for a new Farmall to exceed its rated hp by as much as 20% Out of 9 new Farmalls that came to our farm during that period, only one never exceeded it's rated hp. Only one of them was 20% over as well, and it came from factory that way. The 560 is the only one I ever tampered with. Extra hp was needed, and at the time it had to come economically. My 560 was a 63 so transmission problems had been corrected by then. To me pto was the weak link, I rebuilt that every 2 years until I bought new 1066 in 1975.

I wouldn't recomend doing this to an old tractor. My 560 was around for 11,000 hours in 17 years, and was basically a scrapyard special by then. The engine blew up at that time and I couldn't see spending $5,000. on a tractor without a modern draft controlled 3 point hitch. I know the dealer had a used 766 with roughly 3,000 hours. I didn't buy it but as I recall it was under $10,000.

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