You can luck out and get it freed up with various different methods, but you are assuming that is the only thing wrong with it. I just got a tight WD45 engine on the stand. I think they stopped running it due to noise in the top end. Found out the end of the rocker arm shaft is broken off and the last rocker arm fell off as I was dissassembling. Should be able to free it up.
Sorry, getting off track. If it's a 39, the pto box on the back probably is the old style without a hole in it for the hydraulic pump, so that whole assembly will have to be found with the hydraulic pump. Or like someone else said a front mounted pump would work.
The entire torque tube will have to be changed out to put electric start on it, as it probably doesn't have a hole in it for a starter. Ring gear will have to be added for starting as well. And then you have to deal with putting a generator on it, battery box, and wiring. I don't remember exactly, but your engine (if original) probably won't have the bolt holes on the side of the engine for generator/or alternator mounts. So you will have to make an adapter plate to mount that as well.
Now, if the mag is set up right, and the engine runs good, electric start is not really necessary, depending on what you want to do with the B. Mine has electric start, but I never use it. In fact I got a rebuilt starter and wiring sitting on the shelf for it, but I haven't ever installed it, as with two cranks it's running whether it's 0 or 90 degrees outside.
In general, the price is high for a stuck non running tractor. I paid 1000 for two B's both 1940's with electric start. One ran, the other didn't and engine was tight, sleeve busted, the whole nine yards. The most I paid for a nonrunning one was a loose C that didn't run, but it came with rear wheel weights, a plow, a set of cultivators, and a #3 sickle mower.
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