Nice M. Your list of non-stock parts is about identical to my Dad's '51 M Dad bought brand new and took delivery of it Dec. 23. 1950, but we've always called it a '51 like they would have at the FARMALL PLANT, which was only about 20 miles from our farm. We have the Clutch release lever extension so I could run the M when I was 6 years old. Dad put Char-Lynn power steering on it about 1958. It was always the picker tractor, an IH 2ME mounted picker, and then the at first CASWELL loader put on. Around 1960 Dad got a Stan-Hoist loader for it, that required the exact same M&W live hyd set-up your M has. I worked at both the FARMALL PLANT and IH's East Moline combine plant, I worked by the excess and obsolete inventory dept and knew the guys well, and bought two battery box seat bases, one for my '54 Super H, the factory box severely rusted out, and the other one went on the M. We removed the belt pulley gearbox in the early 1960's. We had a drive coupling crack and had to split and remove the top cover on the transmission, replaced a lot of bearings and seals too. Had to go back in it for another failed part making noise 4-5 years later. The original engine was overhauled about 1957 or '58 with 4" IH 5000 ft high altitude sleeves & pistons, it dyno'd at 48 hp, our stock Super M-TA dynoed 47 at the same shop same mechanic. The M was overhauled again in the mid-1960's, 4" M&W Add Power sleeves and pistons, never had it back on a dyno but I'd guess close to 48-50. A Super M set of faster gears from Tractor Supply was installed in the mid-1960's. The M has been repainted 3 times, 1st time with first overhaul, 2nd time mid-1960's by a local FFA, and last time in 2006. It needs new rear tires bad. It and the SH have both been converted to 12 volt with Delco 10 SI alternators, the M was 2 or 3 days old when it first failed to start. I did most of my "first's" on the Super M-TA, first plowing, disking, cultivating, mowing hay, I have NO idea of the serial number, it was traded spring of 1965 at Westbay IH in Galesburg, Ill for a 450 gas with fasthitch and a truckload of fast hitch implements. I absolutely LIVED on that 450 during spring fieldwork, I could burn THREE tanks of gas if I got an early enough start in the morning. I bought an IH #2000 all h6draulic loader a year ago for the M. And a Cross 3-spool hyd valve to raise/lower the loader, dump and curl the bucket back, and run a remote cylinder on a disk, plow, whatever. We had a 12 ft Kewanee disk, never pulled it with the M, just the 450 and the 4010 Deere that replaced the 450. Dad bought a 13 ft 6 inch Krause disk when he got the SM-TA, it did O-K disking corn stalks, disking plowed ground it just spun the tires in place, M&W direct axle duals fixed that, used them on the 450 too. Even had clamp-on duals for pulling the planter for the M and in spring of '69 had clamp-on duals for the Super H. I put the same style distributor drive on my Super H in 1969 as your M has, installed a factory IH tach/hour meterthat spring, plan on putting one on the M too. The parts guy at My favorite IH dealer had a daughter in most of my classes at school, soon as I walked in the showroom he'd say "Hi". He gave me a bit of a deal on the tach parts. Take good care of your M! They are a great old tractor.

We had an "H" when I was a kid, we bought it in 1974 and it was a bit odd. It had no shift knob and the end of the gearshift wasn't threaded. It had an M&W throttle lever and didn't have a diecast "Farmall" emblem on the nose and appeared to have never had one (no holes) it didn't have lights but the brackets on the crossbar were obviously after market. Had the starter button mounted up the post where you'd expect a retrofit to be. When we bought it we were told it was made in the last year or two of production and it didn't have much use. The pedals didn't have much wear and the sheet metal was all clean. Bushings in the seat were tight. When I changed the rear tires I found date codes on 1946 on the inside of the rims. This was before the serial number/date of production charts were common. I wonder if it was wartime production originally shipped on steel and the starter and rubber tires were added later. the only other H in the neighborhood was a tractor that out neighbor bought at the estate sale of the original owner that spent it's previous life on the belt running the feed grinder on a dairy farm.

Just watched your video I have a 1944 Farmall m it's pretty much still all factory. It does have a little bit of rarity to it it was built and sold on factory rubber the original owners in Iowa I live in Michigan. The fellow I bought this tractor from a little more than 30 years ago did have it dynoed at a tractor dealership up here and I was running 52 horse off the PTO I don't know what kind of motor work has been done to it just put a complete brand new front end new brake shoes and inner complete oil change from the back to the front the rear-end holds 13 gallons it uses a special oil because the gears are flat cut it's 30 weight mineral oil it's rather pricey but you can get it it'll say Ford on the front of the two gallon container I bought mine at tractor supply 👍

Goes to show that equipment lasts when it’s not abused but still used

Those peddles really look pretty good, my M you cant see the diamonds anymore, the tounge pin hole had pulled through also, we had to weld it back up and drill a new hole for it. You will like the M&W friction throttle i have one on mine, love it the toothed ones skipp back to the idle position all the time.

Excellent video Dr. Rust :) that sweet Farmall M tractor and keep going strong also what need fix up on too!

I have the same Model year as this M

Nice tractor. Hoping to get my super m running soon.

i had a 44 m with a 450 lp head that had larger valves than a M head and flat head 4 inch pistons and a 450 carb and manifold turned 62hp.. you need to find the transmission drive plate with the upgraded one. running 1900 rpm i almost bet you have a M&W crankshaft in it..that gives an M 75hp alone with the matching cam kit

Nice tractor. I have a super m with m&w crank witch gives it 1/2” longer stroke and m&w hand clutch. It also has balen power steering.

That's what you get fpr getting a DRAG tractor! Blessings!

Would love to see this tractor in a tractor pull video when your done with it!! I’m in the same trailer predicament. Time to trade for a deck over trailer. Thanks for the videos

I’m very impressed by the tractor and all of the improvements and modifications but I would certainly think 2 to 3 times before I put a friction throttle on the tractor. I think once you put it on you won’t have it on there for two months and you’ll be putting the notch throttle lever back on it just my experience

Maybe you can find the factory reservoir that goes on top of the transmission

What is the clutch linkage? You mentioned it in the beginning of video. I've never seen that setup, nor understand it's use. I really want live power PTO. Haven't been able to find a complete M&W hand clutch (in my price range)😞

Probably got M&W governor/ M&W stroker crank too?

Are you putting a loader on, if so, mount a crank shaft driven sprocket and mount hydraulic chain drive pump on side rail.

I don't think you would like the cab on it, if you're using it regularly.

My 44 h has a growl to my rear housing broke out at one time but it been opened up didn't find anything bad so I just run it

How fast is it down the road?

as you know calcium will rust the rims. take it out.