Lurker/first post..169?
 

I would first like to say thank you to everyone for the great information and amazing ideas that iv learned here on occ. Its helped me tremendously with my 108. I have property that i plant food plots on for hunting whitetails and the 108 does it all.. I love it! looking to make the jump up. My question is about a 169 that i found that i dont think really is one. The owner swears it is and sent me pics of it and it does have the 169 decal but no hydro lift. I thought they came standard with it but just wanted some clarification on this please and thnx!

First, welcome!

Not all 169 came with hydraulic lift, from what I have heard quite a few were shipped with manual lift and had the hydraulic added at the dealer. My 169 has the hydraulic lift, but none of the parts are painted, it was installed after the tractor was painted.

The only way to be sure it is a 169 is by the serial number. It should be 0048 ahead of the U in the sequence.
Hope this helps,
Mike

Ditto what Mike said.
I think a lot of the early ones had manual lift.

perfect!! thanks guys

Yes, there was a shortage of Hyd lift parts at the time they were built.. A lot of them were shipped to the dealers with manual lifts.. I think IH would pay to have it added as the parts came available.. Im sure a lot of them never got converted..

0048U...Looks good to me! Sorry for the pic being vertical not sure hw to make it right. not the way i took it thats for sure!

I have a 169 with hydro lift and one with manual lift. So they are out there. Good luck getting it.