Allis WD front end

Hi guys, new to the forum and extremely happy to join. Looking for opinions from like minded Allis individuals and farmers. I use my 52 Wd, that I picked up with new rear tires and both the wide and narrow front ends for $800 last year, for moderate work such as tedding, raking, 2 bottom trailer plowing, spreading some sheep manure on the corn field and soon some square baling. I'm a fan of the narrow front on a vintage tractor, have been since being a small tot driving our 52 Super M loading tobacco, hay, and harrowing pasture. Would it be worth my time to pull the wide front and replace with the narrow?

Edited by Justinrich90 - 23 Jun 2017 at 9:27pm

Its all just a matter of what you like,but if you're going to do things like push snow the
NF won't work very well.

Try driving around in deep snow with a NF sometime without the front blade

Changing the front over would be a several day job. Getting the bolts out of the casting is sometimes the hardest part! I like both the wide and the narrow. We have two NF and a Wide front too.
Welcome and we need some pictures!
Regards,
 Chris

If you have the tricycle front which bolts on that front housing,it's not that big of job changing over.Uncle put the narrow front on his 45 every year to mount the picker.

You already know what a NF is like. Use it as-is for 6 months and then make up your mind. For me, it's a no-brainer....WIDE FRONT !!!

Chris, I plan on giving the WD a complete restoration when she is ready to retire.......not sure when that will be though since she likes to work the fields. But for now, I am going to keep adding parts as I come across them. I have a new (used) hand clutch lever on the way since the previous owner had cut it down to about the same straight height of a Case SC hand clutch.

Had a narrow front, switched to a wide front . Enjoy the wide front. 

Chris, as far as I know, it came with the NF from the factory on this particular tractor and the previous owner changed or had it changed out, luckily he kept the NF so now I have both. The hand clutch functions properly but I'm just not enthused with the straight lever that they cut it down to, I like the originality of the AC crooked lever. Darnedest thing too, it doesn't have the actual WD motor, I did some research awhile back and the motor is a WD45 engine. So I've got the power of a 45 with a WD tranny/rear end. Of course it doesn't hurt my feelings since our Super M's rear end is actually a 49 M's rear end due to my uncle wrapping it around a tree after spreading fertilizer back in the 80s. So we have a few pieced together farm tractors on the farm.

Edited by Justinrich90 - 28 Jun 2017 at 6:01pm