D15 Revival

Congrats man those back tires literally have no use on them. Like I said before give me a call if you want me to tell you all what I did with almost the exact same situation except I had to pay 800 which is still a steel

If the engine is not stuck at all you should be able to move it by just using the fan belt. At least I could get it to move a touch anyways or put it in fourth gear and rocket lightly

I’m a firm believer in Seafoam in the gas tank and the crankcase. Since it has set for years, I would do as others have said, pull the plugs and add some ATF or even better spray Kroil in each cylinder and let it set. My brother purchased a 190XT Diesel with a stuck engine. Pulled the head as we suspected a blown head gasket. Found cylinders 3-4 is where it was blown and filled with antifreeze in the dome of the pistons. Filled the cylinders with Kroil several times over a few hours. Pulled the starter and Placed a large screw driver on the flywheel and with very little force she broke free. After a new head gasket, fresh rebuild of the injection pump, she runs great. Kroil and Seafoam are both wonderful products. After you get it running, put Seafoam in the crankcase several times with fresh 10w-30 and filter. It will clean the rings and all components inside the engine. When you drain it you will be shocked at how dirty fresh oil becomes as it cleans the engine. Figure on at least 2 filters and fresh oil before it clears. Well worth the money as the engine will be clean as well as the rings, head, valves. She will run much better as the carbon build up will be gone. Has worked well for me on multiple engines over the years.

The pistons have a bowl top. One cup of oil maybe doesn't quite fill the bowl, so you need another cup to flood the rings/sleeves.

Modirt, I think Matt Scott from Jordan make battery tray for  them but I could be wrong I know he made some hold down for them, his # is 612-508-4759.

Edited by Kenny L. - 20 Jul 2018 at 3:53pm

modirt wrote: I suspected the rod may have been for a cultivator. There is a forward projecting bracket mounted to the top of the left side 3 point link. We had something similar on a JD 620, which carried a front mounted cultivator. Except that one used two push/pull rods....one on each side, and they were more like 1.5" pipes. But if this one was used to lift in a pulling motion vs. a push, a single solid rod may have worked. I was also wondering what those brackets would have been used for and a front mounted cultivator was the only thing I could think of.  You're right, one is a wing nut type gizmo, the other has a wedge, that goes up against the side of the cultivator unit.  Need a clearer view of the rod, to see if it goes with cults, or mower.  The way the front cults were raised, was a bracket, on the inside of the lift arms, went to a J-bolt, attached to a flat piece of iron, that connected to the cult gangs, and made them lift (IIRR!) My first "car".....was a JD B tractor. I got started on it when I was about 10 or 11. At the time, my interest was in the fact it had an engine and didn't need to be peddled like my bicycle did. It also had a 2 row cultivator and I tried to talk my dad into letting me put it on and use it. He refused, insisting that if I was interested in running a cultivator, I'd get more done with the 4 row, and the 620 had power steering and the B didn't. My guess now is he simply wanted to get out of all the work it would take to mount it up, knowing the glamor of that would wear off in about 10 minutes once I tried to steer the old B by hand. (Known of then as Armstrong Power Steering) Especially with the weight of the cultivator on it. The D15 was probably big enough to have handled a 4 row cultivator too.

Luckily with the 12 V system the couple D series tractors I had brought back to life I haven’t had to mess with the generators they charged right away and you might get lucky with the starter!

I’m happy for him to! So glad another great D-15 is saved from the scrap yard! Sounds positive so far. Hope your able to get some sleep, I feel your excitement.

You can use a shop vac to remove what oil is left in there.

Those are sweet little tractors and highly collectible. We had one and traded it on an 8070. I hated to see it go but the only thing we used it for was pulling a trailer in the spring fixing fence.

Where in Mo are you. I’m northeast of Jefferson City.