New Tractor For Me

[85_Ranger4x4]

Looks like you have a good starting point anyway.

A couple things I picked up:

Somebody has put a distributer on it, which is easier to deal with than a mag. Good score on that, it looks different than my brother's though (his has a 90 degree bend in is so the dist cap is vertical. Mine has a mag.

It has a C grill on it, you can see the large hole in the bottom for the front pedistal, I don't know what the two holes in the front would be for. If you want to get another one a B, or a power unit (either stand alone or out of a combine) they will have the same shell with the solid bottom. You will have to put mesh in the power unit shells though. I know this because my brother got his engine out of a pulltype combine. He used the shell, but the combines grille mesh is more elaborate and bolts on. Just fill the holes and spotweld new mesh in it.

Somebody has moved the drawbar back, it usually mounts just to the axle dropboxes.

Do you know what the atachment is for that runs most of the length of the tractor? Two way plow maybe??

If you have any questions about it let me know, I have been pretty much all the way around mine.

 

[countryboy111789]

The aatachment is the lift it is also a one row tractor

 

[Donnie strickland]

Hey, cool! We have a 1945 B at work. It doesn't get used a lot -- 3-4 times a year -- but it runs great.

Originally it was a magneto ignition with no electric start, but a couple of years back one of the mechanics put on a distributor, an alternator, and a foot-actuated starter like yours has. I still preferred hand-cranking though.

 

[steve0]

It's cool !!!

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The aatachment is the lift it is also a one row tractor

Do you know what impliment the lift is for? The lift for my cultivator lift mounts on three bolts at the rear of the fenders, I thought the B's were somewhat similar. It has rods that go up front and make the cultivator go up and down.

Those beams look like they are solid too, that is a lot of beef for the lift on a underrated single bottom tractor. They are heavier than my 4 bottom rated WD-45's lift.

Only reason they were called a single was you couldn't have the 2 row cultivator with the wide front axle... Put a narrow front (or adjustable wide) and wider rear axles on it and you have C (a 2 row tractor) with a B serial number.

 

[Simple_serf]

Thanks for the AC info...I'm going to stash that away in my engine/tractor repostitory.

I will add that I prefer Mags, with our winters here, you can get a hotter spark with a impulse mag that a battery powered dizzy....Important whan you are hand cranking....which I still seem to do alot of.