Just because the cast iron was MADE at the foundry in '54, doesn't mean the tractor was ASSEMBLED in '54. Serial numbers are about the date the tractor was assembled. Casting dates are about when the PART was cast.
And sometimes,over 50+ years, on some tractors, cast parts get broken and replaced...so the casting date may actually be LATER than when the tractor was first assembled. So unless you've owned the tractor since new, there's no way to be absolutely 100% sure that it's all original.
Case in point: a local farmer owned land on both sides of a busy highway, with a series of hills on the road bordering his property. One day in 1964, a car he hadn't seen when he started across the highway popped up over one of the hills and broke his Super C in two, right behind the bellhousing. We ordered him in a new torque tube casting and a new cast wheel to replace the one that was broken in the collision. We never checked the date codes on the castings, but the odds are they probably didn't match the production date of the tractor.
Funny thing: when that old man got out of the hospital and got healed up from his broken ribs and such, he never expressed any concerns about casting codes matching the original ones on his tractor. But cases like his would explain why the casting numbers just MIGHT be later than the original production date of the tractor.
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