WD wide front install

I've never switched front ends, but i would guess you unbolt the pedestal from the frame rails, disconnect the steering shaft and drop the front out. Then you just bolt the wide front pedestal in its place and connect the steering shaft. What kind of back blade do you have. I can move a lot of snow with y Oxnard blade and if that don't work I push it with my loader.

You can find a couple wide fronts for it that will work.   A 3 bolt wide front which was used on the WD's, a four bolt wide front which was used on the WD45's and there was also some aftermarket wide fronts from Swartz etc.   that will work too.   When you find an Allis wide front, make sure you get not only the wide front but also the front mounting bracket, the rear mounting bracket and the wide front bolster or steering box.   Your narrow front end will have to be taken out completely, the wide front steering box installed in it's place and the wide front mounted underneath it.   The wheels/tires bolt pattern should be the same as long as someone didn't switch out the front spindles to 6 bolt or something else.   The worst part of the whole deal is to get the old narrow front bolster out.   The four bolts on each side like to be rusted in and break off and the whole bolster likes to be rusted in from the 60+ years of it being mounted in there and the fact that unless it was taken apart at one time and pieces painted individually, the bolster and the inside of the frame rails were bare metal.   If I was going to do this project in the future, I would look at soaking the framerails where the meet the narrow front bolster on each side once a week for a while before attempting to tear it apart.   When I changed out the one on my 45 diesel, I made a stand out of heavy angle iron that supported the frame rails on each side.   That way I could take the whole front end all apart and work on it safely without having to worry about it falling over.   It might also help to take a bolt out of one side of the front engine support and then try to spread each frame rail away from the bolster.   Hope that helps.

Danny, Thats my old 52 gallon electric water heater. I used a 4x4x 3/8 angle iron for a pusher and welded mounting brackets to that.

Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 23 Jan 2011 at 7:55pm

CTuckerNWIL wrote: I've never switched front ends, but i would guess you unbolt the pedestal from the frame rails, disconnect the steering shaft and drop the front out. Then you just bolt the wide front pedestal in its place and connect the steering shaft. What kind of back blade do you have. I can move a lot of snow with y Oxnard blade and if that don't work I push it with my loader.

John,

Edited by dannyraddatz - 23 Jan 2011 at 9:18am

That was before it got cold Don. With these below zero temps we've been having, I'm glad I don't have any snow to plow. The heat houser is in the shed next to the 45 now, but I seem to be missing a bracket. Maybe I'l get it ready to put on when the weather warms a bit so it'll be ready next year. LOL

Pretty easy to change out John. If you are looking for a wide front let me know when the snow is gone, I'll see what I've got. I know I have a real nice 4 bolt and I think I have at least one 3 bolt. 

John, That's when you spin the blade around and push it backwards. Ya, I don't like looking behind me all the time. That's one reason I made the blade for the loader. The other reason is the 5' snow bucket is too heavy hanging out front.