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Topic: Need help with serial number

Posted By: ACscott
Subject: Need help with serial number
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2012 at 4:04pm

Hi guys just looked at a tractor it has wd45 decals and a curved shifter, but the serial number is 156638 so what is it a wd45 or a wd. Thanks the serial number charts are confusing me.

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Posted By: Rfdeere
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2012 at 4:06pm

1953 WD45

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Posted By: 79fordblake
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2012 at 4:08pm

That would be a WD serial number by what I have wrote down. I don't know what site I got if off of...guess its no good.

Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2012 at 4:08pm

The WD started at 7 in 1948 and stopped at 146606 in 1953. The WD45 starts at 146607 in 1953 and goes to 236958 in 1957. Yours is a 1953 WD45.

Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2012 at 4:09pm

norms book says 45 started in 1953 at 146,607 and went to 160,385

so it is a 53 WD45

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Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20

Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15

Posted By: ACscott
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2012 at 4:25pm

Thanks guys.

Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2012 at 5:10pm

and WD started at serial WD127XXX in 1953 with the curved shifter - often referred to as the 45 transmission.

Gary

Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2012 at 5:35pm

I have even seen one without a S.N. I was told that the rear end got out of the factory with a crack in it. So at the dealership, it was changed out with a new one under warranty and it was never stamped.