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Keep front end down

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Topic: Keep front end down

Posted By: Stoges
Subject: Keep front end down
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2025 at 11:03am

in previous post, my WD45 pulls to the left when front comes up. Moved the weights to the left, moved draw bar to the right 1/4 in, tire pressure same. Question is, do I weight the back and try to steer with the brakes which doesn’t work well.. Or weight the front enough to be able to steer and be able to pick my spot on the track. The last option seems to work but I keep side guessing that I need the weight on the rear, I see everyone with the front 18+ inches high. Opinions needed.

Bill

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Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2025 at 11:43am

Doing a wheelie may impress the spectators, but having your front wheels just barely touching the track or no more that an inch off the track will get you further.

Personally when going over 20MPH I'd rather be able to control my direction with a little steering.

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Posted By: Stoges
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2025 at 1:04pm

Other than being able to steer, my thinking is keeping the front down also keeps the draw bar up lifting the front of the pan, make sense. Just trying to figure out the pros and cons..

Posted By: mike a
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2025 at 10:39pm

old allis tractors are naturally nose lite,i removed the rear weights years ago on my wc,i now put them ahead of the rear wheels,big improvement.move your seat to the middle

Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2025 at 6:49pm

Ideally you would want your front wheels just floating above the track that would give you all the weight of your tractor on our rears. That would require you to have a fairly straight pull because at that point the fronts won't do any steering. When you get that balanced it could come down to 1 weight to the front or back. But that also requires you to read the track that day if it's biting or not. All things you will learn about the tractor after multiple trips down the track.