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55allis 
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 Topic: Later d17 saved from fence row
Posted: 23 Sep 2025 at 11:49pm |
I did it again, bought another tractor out of a fence row… Looks to be a series 3 d17 gas with a serial number of 66169, correct me if I’m wrong because I have been before. Haven’t picked it up yet to mess with it but hoping to get it this week before harvest stuff get crazy but I figured I’d post it now to start from the beginning. The front end is only sitting on it due to some one swapping the original narrow front to a wide front and not taking the time to do it properly. 
Edited by 55allis - 24 Sep 2025 at 8:51am
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1955 AC WD45 diesel with D262 repower, 1949 AC WD45
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 5:06am |
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Congratulations, nice find. Looks like a good winter project.
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Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 5:38am |
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D series are my favorite. Please post pics of the process if you can. Good luck!
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55allis
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 9:02am |
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The guy who owed it is a John Deere guy so he was really excited to have this one gone, he has another one that’s in better shape he’s trying to get rid of too but it’s a series 1 I think.
Don’t think this one will be a throw a battery in and go type….
What size of front tires are the series 3 supposed to have?
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DrAllis
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 9:53am |
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6:00 or 6:50 x 16's. Some later ones may have had 7:50's but on a wider rim.
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 9:57am |
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Standard size was 6.00 X 16
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 11:32am |
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Good luck with the restoration! I love to see AC's saved.
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 12:12pm |
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55allis, Congrats on rescuing it. Serial number 66169 would make it a 1963. So its got the dry engine air filter. Assuming since its muffler is busted over, engine may be frozen?? One good thing, is that you won't have to remove old tires from rims.... :)
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 10:50pm |
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Good save. Yes we are all curious if there is any chance the engine isn't stuck.
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55allis
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Posted: 24 Sep 2025 at 11:04pm |
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Not sure yet, previous owner was thinking it wasn’t stuck when he got it… but he wasn’t sure how long he had it…
Was told the muffler got broke off in the year before storms…
Not sure how good the muffler kept the moisture out but it does look like it has a good rain cap. Really hoping it didn’t fill with water and freeze…. I know from experience what that could do…
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Posted: 25 Sep 2025 at 5:58am |
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Good fixable tractor. Go slow and easy on the bent up sheet metal.
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Posted: 25 Sep 2025 at 6:30am |
55allis, That is a project for sure. Looking forward to seeing your progress. I like our early D17! Regards, Chris and Cheryl
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55allis
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Posted: Yesterday at 11:51am |
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I got it to its new home!!
It’s missing the starter, waterpump and both snap coupler latches.
The engine is stuck but I got all the controls to move freely. The gear shifter is stiff but it will shift in all the gears. The gas tank is mostly shiny in the bottom as I can see.
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55allis
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Posted: Yesterday at 1:53pm |
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Ok so the front end is off an early d17 and so the bolts are 1/2” instead of 5/8”…
Would it be save to drill the bolster holes out to 5/8”? It looks like there’s enough cast there to handle it but I wanted to make sure…
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Posted: Yesterday at 3:15pm |
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Good save. There's a WD45 near me sitting along the road almost like a lawn ornament. Doesn't look to be in bad shape. Wish I could afford another one :(
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55allis
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Posted: 16 hours 22 minutes ago at 11:13pm |
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Well I came to the conclusion that I possibly could do some modifications to the front end to make it work…
So I could cut the rear pin mount off the axle and weld it on the front side of and drill the 1/2” holes on the bolster to 5/8”…
For the engine, it’s still stuck but looking through the spark plug holes it doesn’t seem to look too bad. I think I’m going to pull the head just to check things out to be safe.
It’s going to need a water pump and starter due to them missing.
What other machines have the same starter?
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DrAllis
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Posted: 12 hours 29 minutes ago at 3:06am |
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That is a legit series 3 tractor. That front axle is from the first gen D-17 series and it ain't quite the same at that rear pivot pin area.
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55allis
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Posted: 4 hours 39 minutes ago at 10:56am |
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Wonder if anyone would want to trade?
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DrAllis
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Posted: 2 hours 47 minutes ago at 12:48pm |
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I'm not saying you can't salvage the axle you have with some welding, torching, and fabrication. You should seek out a tractor with the correct axle and make a plan. Any D-17 from 1960 and up and a first generation One-Seventy are good to look at. This must be the missing info to the story. They bought a D-17 WF axle and it cannot work as-is. So, the tractor was abandoned.
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55allis
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Posted: 1 hour 23 minutes ago at 2:12pm |
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It was swap because someone bought this tractor for the narrow front to put on their picker d17, apparently an earlier d17. So they must had figured out that the original 5/8” bolts wouldn’t go back in due to it having 1/2” and just left it.
I posted a trade in the classified in hopes of maybe correcting it.
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