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Re: F-Series Serial Number Location
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Posted by Bill Smith on July 08, 2001 at 15:40:42 from (128.242.4.59):
In Reply to: F-Series Serial Number Location posted by Wheels on July 04, 2001 at 19:06:42:
I believe my F-20 has serial number on one of the frame rails but can't remember just where as well as on the right side of engine and on the plate on the tool box. My numbers all match up but I have seen F-20's where the numbers didn't all match up. I have heard story's that some F-20's come from the factory with nonmatching numbers becuase of a parts mix up when they were being assembled. If that is the case a serial number reading for the year of manufacturing I would think would still be accurate. However over the years some tractors have had engine and tool box swaps which messes things all up for figuring out what year a tractor is. I have even heard story's of people changing the frame rails becuase they were cracked or broke. I would think you would have to get awful abusive to break one of them becuase I have picked one up and carried it and they are pretty stout. But who is to say what might happen if you roll an F-20 over. Hard to tell what might break. If the frame rail number and the engine number are the same I would say you would be pretty good to go as far as saying that that number is the actual number but if they don't match and they lead you to a controversy of figuring out what year it is I would say you got a problem. Then the only thing you could do is maybe check out factory changes from year to year if there happened to be any. Other than the different front end I believe (not sure what year or maybe there wasn't one)and the color change in late 1936 and the flat belt to v belt later on I don't know of any on the F-20. I have never been around an F-12 or F-14.
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