New guy sayin Howdy

Hi y’all. I’m glad to have became a member of this Great forum!
I’m the proud owner of a 1957 AC WD45!   Had her about 4years. Eversince I moved to my lil 11 acre Ponderosa.    I needed a tractor for workin the land Nd Pops caught wind of It forsale. 1600 bucks later she as mine. Been a great machine. Plenty of power! Has a front loader.   I put A new 3point set up on her.   I’ve got a 2bottom plow. Boxblade. Drag disc( want to upgrade to a 3point disc!). Pto implements are post hole auger TK brush hog. Broadcast spreader. Olathe seeder
Starter Brooke on me. Piece of nose cone got stuck in ring gear. I pulled the engine and it came out decided to just go ahead and take it all theway out and give it a good goin through. Gona sand Nd paint her up. Just got the head off Tonight. Gonna get a valve job. New clutch disc new seals And gaskets and Gota order a carb refresh kit. I’m not wantin to tear into the bottom end at this time. Someday Yes! I plan to keep this tractor all my life    SuRe someday I’ll get me somethin newer. 4wheel dirive maybe a cab; that’s when I’ll do a full rebuild and restore for more show than work ! But I’ll always have this Wd45 ! Pass it on to my 6month old son and sO on!
Again I’m very proud to own and use this fine piece of American made machinery!

Welcome to the forum. You've got a great piece of history there and a great tractor to boot. I'm sure the son is already dreaming orange.

Welcome to a really great and helpful forum. My first one was a WD-45. Great tractor. But as others will say-you need to make room for more. Somehow the herd always seems to grow. And yes everyone likes to see pics!

Thank ya!    Yes I believe these were ahead of there time when they rolled out    The original clips on YouTube give me goosebumps every time. Before I owned this tractor AC orange was barely familiar to me. But am I glad that has changed!

Thanks !   I’m sure I’ll be askin some questions on the top end and install soon. Well I built a lean to on my garge to house the ole girl. I could always keep adding ! Lol

57 WD45 I see you are in NE KS. where abouts? I am in Manhattan.

Alittle west of Lawrence

It says my photos are to big. I’ll havta figure out on resizing them

Stan IL&TN wrote: We want pictures! We want pictures! Oh and welcome!!🙂🙂🙂🙂

There’s some recents. I couldn’t get the older ones I have to resize. I ain’t put the sway block on because somebody welded on the piece where it goes    To thick. I need to find a used one   Piece that holds draw bar

57,

Welcome to The Forum!  I have a '55 WD 45 that I'm slowly fixing up to be a plow tractor.  It followed me home from an auction one day.  The bids were low, I figured the back tires & wide front were worth more than the bid.  So ...  I started bidding.  Then I went home to get my trailer & brought her home.

57,

Edited by Sugarmaker - 03 May 2019 at 4:45pm

Hi 57,  if you get stuck on something give me a shout,  I live 30 miles south of Topeka.   Close enough to come help if needed.

Well thank ya sir I appreciate it. I’ll defiantly keep that in mind. I have two handy farm fellas around in 80 year old pops and 70 year old father in law always more than eager to lend a hand lol.

WD71635 is a 1950 WD. If it still has the 4 inch stroke crank that it came with, that dished piston is gonna be lower on compression than the other 3. I'd be looking for flat top WD piston to match the others, if it were mine.
 The only place you need to look for brake linings or clutch parts, is right here. Rick Corder can ship you what you need and nobody can beat his prices or quality of work.
  Just looked at Bryan Smiths site http://wsmth.people.clemson.edu/ and that engine number fits in with 1950 model also.

Year	Tractor SN Range	Engine SN Range
1948	7 - 9249	200775 - 210718
1949	9250 - 35444	210719 - 238901
1950	35445 - 72327	238902 - 278584
1951	72328 - 105181	278585 - 313931
1952	105182 - 126931	313932 - 337332
1952	127007 - 131242	337333 - 341970
1953	131243 - 146606	341971 - 358500

Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 03 May 2019 at 8:37pm