169 ?

Rob Achenbach · Mar 8, 2022

So this 169 showed up in Texas on FB but I thought that all 149’s and 169’s all had hydraulics. Clearly not the case or is this possibly some type of ruse? Thoughts?

digger · Mar 8, 2022

Rob Achenbach said:
So this 169 showed up in Texas on FB but I thought that all 149’s and 169’s all had hydraulics. Clearly not the case or is this possibly some type of ruse? Thoughts?

There's many 169's with manual lift. There was a stretch where they ran out of ported pumps, back in the day.

mgonitzke · Mar 9, 2022

I thought they all had ported pumps, but ran out of control valves or something else like that. The service bulletin to convert it assumes the tractor already has a ported pump.

digger · Mar 9, 2022

mgonitzke said:
I thought they all had ported pumps, but ran out of control valves or something else like that. The service bulletin to convert it assumes the tractor already has a ported pump.

When the snow melts, I'll go to the back barn and take a pic of a one a dealer had from new that doesn't. The only reason he kept it was because it didn't have a ported pump.

kphill · Mar 9, 2022

My 169 built 9/74 did not have a hydralic lift..If I remember right it had a ported pump and I removed the plugs and installed the hydro lift from a 149..

snicklas · Mar 9, 2022

If you take a look at this thread:

https://www.ihcubcadet.com/threads/hydro-tractor-question.10169/
We are having a discussion about this right now…..

Bill Houk · Mar 15, 2022

All that power ya need something stout and stiff to hang on to besides the wheel. No really, Late in the production run they started to run out of parts so they switched to manual lifts. All early 169's were hydraulic lift and the last were manual with the option to upgrade to hydraulic at a later date when parts were ready. Mine is manual lift so I left it that way, for now, I do have the parts to upgrade and a twin stick and front port set up for it.