Can you identify?

[panningbros]

Have a couple of steering arms that go on the steering box. The red one is from a late ser# 8N & the yellow/blue one is from an 800. Both books show part# NCA3590A but they are not the same. The red one is marked #1035 & the newer one is hard to read but looks like 5690025? What's the deal? Is one a different part#? Will these work together?

 

[John Smith8N]

The red one is a 8N3590B. Used on 8N. Then there was the NAA3590A used on NAA and some hundred series. Then the NCA3590 used up thru '64. They had to have more offset to clear the housing on the 5 speed transmissions. You can put the NCA arm on anything, but the 8N arm will only work on the 8N. The NCA sticks out awful far on an earlier 4 speed. Parts books often only list the most current part that is is backward compatible to earlier models. You need a series of parts books through the years to actually know what's original to an older tractor. Use matched pairs of those arms, not one wide with one narrow offset.

 

[souNdguy]

I may need to get me one of them later more clearance arms for one of my mutts that has a 5spd now.. I did torch-ectomy surgery on my arm ont he left for clearance.

now I got a part number to look for, thanks!