WD45....or not?

any one know of the site you can go to where you put in the serial number, to determine if it is a WD or a WD45?

Edited by deereequipment1 - 10 Apr 2011 at 3:39pm

I bought a WD45, has curved shifter (which I was told is not too reliable), but has short heads like a WD. What is that plate on the side of block, left or right, front,center or rear?

What is the serial number?  WD45 started at WD146607.

Like Dan said the WD45 started with serial number WD146607. Engines may have been changed over time so you could have a 45 with a 201 engine or you could have a WD with a 226 engine. There is a serial number reference page on this site. serial number reference page here

1950's
Model	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
U 19-30	?	22823	20586-20748 22824-23056		-	-	-	-	-	-
B	114526	118673	122309	124201	124710	126496	127185	-	-	-
C	84030	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
WD	72327	105181	126981	131242	160384	-	-	-	-	-
WD45	-	-	**	160385	190992	217991	230294	236958	-	-
G	24005	25268	26496	28035	29035	29036+	-	-	-	-
CA	321	10538	22180	31423	32906	37202	38617	38618+	-	-
Serial numbers from here on are the beggining number for each year
D-10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1001
D-12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1001
D-14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1001	9400	14900
D-17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4300	16500
** WD-45 production began at 146607 in 1953

Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 10 Apr 2011 at 6:27pm

I have looked at that chart before and have never understood why there is an entry in 1954 for the WD, there were no 1954 WD's.

The 1953 WD had serial numbers WD131243 through the last one WD146606.

The first WD45 was in 1953 serial number WD146607 and 1953 WD45's went through WD160385.

I have a 54 wd, it was in a shed since 62 and the engine was torn down and he sold the fenders and rear wheels and tires but it is a 54 according to the serial # and is a wd, not a 45 he told me he bought it new and the engine was the original one, it has the plate and I believed the guy when he told me the engine was original, he also worked at an allis dealership most of his life

different guy, another guy was over a few weeks ago and did say that his grandfather was a dealer back in the wc days and they did offer electric start on the later unstyled but the cost was close to 60 dollars but there wasnt a person that bought it atleast at his dealership.  I wasnt alive in 37 or for that matter 54 so I cant say either way about the electric start for the unstyled or for the 54 wds but I do know that everywhere is says that there is a 54 wd by serial #s and the one I got is dated as a 54 but it really doesnt mean too much to me as I said it was drug out of a shed a few years ago for scrap price,.  I do know however that allis made almost anything you could emagine and people say all the time they didnt make one of those or didnt do that at that time but unless you worked there and were involved in everyaspect  which would be imosssible no one can say for sure.  Just like my father and uncle argued with me years ago that Bs didnt come with starter or foot brakes, but we all know they did, but when they were younger my grandfather and great grandfather had countless #s of Bs as well as my dad and uncles and not one had foot brakes or starter, so just by going by what they saw they were sure they didnt make them until I drug in several from the mid forties and after.  And lastly I see on occasion something with allis markings  that seems to be allis but cant find any info in any book or on the web  but as I said that doesnt mean they didnt make it but mabe they didnt and someone just wanted to build something and tag it allis kind of like the golf stuff fred has like the caddy and so on,