how to lower the front of my wd-45 ?

Wanting to lowere the front for pulling how do others do it? My tractor is a tricycle front.

Put smaller 15" rims off a RC and 4.00x15 tires on. Worked well on our WC. Kip

rc fronts 5.00-15 and 15.5-38 rear.

Who sells repacement Rc rims? can't find them any place. I was thinking about having a set of " c " front hubs machined to fit the wd front spindle or have the spindle turned down to fit the smaller hubs

Do you know how much more the wide front weighs over the narrow?

mlpankey wrote: a massey harris tricycle front end doesnt way much at all in under one

That was a useful post, thank you for contributing to the forum.

 The front weights are 120#  for the early wc 180# for the wc -wd ones. and 320# for the wd45 ones a wide front is 350#  the bloster for a wide 3 bolt is 130# a corn picker narrow front to bolt onto a wide is 57# with the hubs. I have the light one on mine. But have a 4 bolt bloster to fix up and put a corn picker conversion on it. Just to look trick since I've only seen 2 like that ever.

You will NOT find new replacement RC wheels. B/C, WC/WD...but not RC. Getting tougher to find serviceable used ones. I think that there would be enough demand from WC,WD,D17 tractor pullers that someone like Miller Tire would gear up and make them. This wheel is nothing more than a B/C wheel with the larger hub hole and bolt pattern of a WC. Kip. You do have the option of after market aluminum wheels if they are allowed and you don't mind the look! Kip

I have an extra early front pedestal.  There is more meat around the rear of it..more solid or straight across the back.  on the early WC, the one "corner" so to speak is missing.  I have never weighed them side by side, just was told the they are lighter so I picked another one up at an auction one day.  I'll get a pic tonight...if I remember

All of them are heavier than the massey harris

Well if you dont tell them they will never know it let alone look for it

He needs to walk away from pulling then if he isnt willing to work within the grey areas of rules. Rules are only as good as the tech enforcing them.however on the front end unless he rolls the drops and run his draw bar long he will end up putting every bit of weight he removes from the nose back on the nose. The only place i ever removed weight and keep it off was in the wheels and tires engine and middle (trany area) of tractor. One can be surprised what the tubes and liners in each tire weighs.
I even change the solid steering round stock out to 1/2 schedule 80 black iron pipe
One will also be surprised how rolling ghe drops keeps the nose pulled to the ground.

Edited by mlpankey - 02 Apr 2013 at 7:01pm

 I have never, ever felt the need to add rake to my pullers, and wonder about its real world benefits.  Just get your weights right !

Mitch, I'm only gonna say this once, don't encourage others on this forum to be deceptive, or cheat.Only loosers who are wanna be winners would justify it as OK, and its not. 

He said the rules said it had to be original or factory replacement for that make of tractor.so if we want to be honest rc wheels would be cheating cause they were used on a rc and not the make of tractor model he is running. How technical.on a technicality are we going to make of interpretation. Its pretty hard to cover up a change in wheel size

Edited by mlpankey - 02 Apr 2013 at 8:16pm