ED 40
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Category: Allis Chalmers
Forum Name: Farm Equipment
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URL: https://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=203875
Printed Date: 22 Nov 2024 at 7:17am
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Topic: ED 40
Posted By: Orangenubbe
Subject: ED 40
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2024 at 5:25pm
Greetings from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I am new to the forum and wanted to post my most recent purchase to share. An ED 40 that spent most of it's life at the Homestead Resort pulling a finish mower. It runs and seems like a solid candidate for a resto.I hope to learn all I can from you folks about this model farm tractor. I've included a picture..... |
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Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2024 at 6:15pm
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Welcome. It's nice to find a complete running ED40 Those have some unique problems that some that have them can help you with. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2024 at 7:22pm
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Yeah, IIRR, the most common major problem is that something in the lift breaks a casting... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: Orangenubbe
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2024 at 6:06pm
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Thanks for the heads up on the casting issue. Right now, I need to replace a steel hydraulic line before I can start it. It is missing all the 3 pt. hitch equipment. I hope that's not a bad sign of things to come. No draw bar either. The exhaust is also missing. Just the down pipe from the manifold. I don't have big plans for the tractor. Maybe pull a mower once in a while. Parades and Steam and Gas shows. Something to tinker with in retirement.
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Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2024 at 9:17pm
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Welcome to the forum. Is this your first allis tractor. Which line do you need. Do you have parts book and manuals.
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Posted By: Orangenubbe
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2024 at 2:49pm
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Hello. The steel line runs under the fuel cell, down the top of the trans and seat. It’s rusted from rodent urine I guess. Easy fix. I can make one. I do not have any manuals yet. |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2024 at 6:58pm
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Posted By: DanielW
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2024 at 6:54am
| I always liked the ED40. Pretty robust units. There are a lot more of them here in Canada than there were in the US (like a lot of other British-built tractors, and the British-built AC square balers). Biggest issue I know of is them being very grumpy starters - especially in cold weather. I can't remember the details, but there were some glow-plugs that were used on a model of Nissan diesel that are apparently an easy retrofit into that engine, and make for much easier starting. Some of the Massey 35's had that same engine, made by the Standard Engine Company. |
Posted By: Orangenubbe
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2024 at 7:06am
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Hello Daniel, Grumpy starters are no fun. Thanks for the info. I have UK ancestry so it seemed like a good project. hahaha Once I get a manual for this rig, I hope I can figure out the different controls in the instrument panel. I think I read that it has glow plugs. All the labels are sun baked so bad that you can't read them. Oh well, all part of the project.
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