1930 U

I just bought a 1930 U, serial number 2302. At an auction in KS. Pretty straight old tractor. Wrong mag and carb but the PO has the carb. I just need to find a mag.

Oldorange. It doesn't have 4th locked out so it is an orignal rubber tired U

they all had the forth gear in them . if it was on steel the forth fork was turn so it wouldn't go in to gear but if you took the cover off and install the fork you had forth. Mine is and early 29 United s/n 83 it was on cut downs when we bought it with forth gear engage( it was an bit sketchy in forth). It looks like an nice factory round spoke wheels. I have bought several of them here in Ontario over the years ,one on steel and the rest on cut down steel. I would like to find an an nice set of round spoke wheels for one of mine. Real nice find. Thanks for posting chuck

Edited by tractorchuckie - 30 Apr 2012 at 1:51pm

I have little to no luck in finding an set of steel for an early U I had to pay through the nose for them  and the  set of cut downs in excellence shape that I have my wife got the better of me and thinks we sould keep them. good luck may be you will have better luck then me. thxchuck

Judging by the pics I can find It looks like an Eisemann gl4 would be the correct magneto. It was also used on the 25-40 at about the same time period. I believe your tractor probably was on steel originally. It looks like the rubber did not get available to the public until the during the production of the 32's. I have a UC thats a 31, and it has the same fate, someone had switched her over to spokes with rubber. I may be wrong on the mag but it is what all the old pics i can find appear to have in my opinion. Still, what a great find you should be proud. If its ever for sale, let me know!!

Jeff, You made me go to the parts manual on this one!!!!   Great save.  Manual just goes back to 31, but does list cont. engine.  It shows only steel wheels available for cont. u. It list mag as eisemann and looking at the picture of it I would say oldorangeiron is dead on. As usual I have part of one, meaning no magnet and the springs holding the points are rusted into. I got it with one of the 20-35's so would assume it is counterclock wise mag. Didn't like getting it like that but it is a start. Good luck and might see you at pawnee if it rains enough.  Lee

I've got  base mount Mag that should fit, though its not right, I was going to use it on my Model M crawler but I found a Bendix Scintilla that is correct for my tractor.

They used 3 different mags when new. An Eisemann G4, Bosch, and Bendix Scintilla. United No. 1975 has the Bosch.  Dave.

Just for the record, I mean no disrespect Fred. I am learning as I go, i sure don't wanna seem like a know it all.  I am always glad to learn, and know I could be wrong, it looks to me like there are Eisemann's on some of them at least.(25-40's)

Edited by oldorangeiron - 01 May 2012 at 7:18am

Fred is right. At this day and age it is hard to find the exact mag that came off of these tractors. I have the Eisemann G4 on my 25-40, but on two other Continental U's I have ,I have Fairbanks Morse. Anything that makes them run right is the last thing to be picked at.   Dave.

I have a U sn 3205 and it has factory round spokes. Unfortunatley, it is a parts donor tractor.

My other U sn 5666 is on full steel w/extentions, and has a Bosch mag.

Both tractors were equipped with the Donaldson glass jar air cleaner, yours has the Vortox air cleaner. It was my understanding that the Vortox's were found on late Continental U's, but I may be wrong.

Either way, you have a very nice find. Good luck with it!!!