Feeling Guilty

Hi guys I just finished doing some upgrades on my 48 c and I'm feeling a little Guilty for altering such a great tractor any of you feel this way?
If it was a show tractor I would keep it like it was made but I need to use it so I had to do some upgrades.
I just added an electric fan to replace the louvers and took off the engine fan.

And added a crank mounted pump.


When I finally get my skid loader the tractors will be restored but it may be a few years .   

I replaced the fan for cold weather operation to get faster warm up.

temp controlled electric fan makes sense to me

thermostat is suppose to control water temp, and the lovers were used before the tractors came out with the thermostats on them...Now if you don't have a thermostat on the engine already, ...  I would hut for the housing and put one on.  like the others said, it's your tractor, and you did whatyou needed to do... live hydraulic will be nice when using a loader.... just that now when starting i cold, you will be turning the pump too... Should have put on an electrical engagement for when you were going to use it...  

I hear ya man, I hate to alter a tractor too. But think of it like this, if it wasn't for you, this tractor might be rotting in a fence row somewhere. Save the tractor any way you see fit.

Pfffft, that's nothing , I have a really cobbled up WC....

Nope, you should feel guilty! Un fix it at once!!!!!!! 

I agree with what was said earlier.   Not sure how much better the electric fan will be over the thermostat and wondering if it will become a issue as far as cleaning out the radiator but if it works better great. I had only heard race car people say they went electric to save a little on hp but that was years ago.
As to the hydraulics I have made that same upgrade on both of my d serries tractors.   It makes them much more useful to have dual remotes. That is how I set mine up. One with a loader and dual remotes.
Like others said if you can upgrade it and keep it out there being useful great. Don't feel guilty feel proud of the fact that you have taken an old gem and improved it to perform a modern task you need done. As much as I enjoy seeing a factory correct tractor at a show I would much rather see a slightly modified tractor out there in a field earning it's keep doing the types of work they where designed for.

Joe my d15 is about the same way and it has a good pump on it. With no bucket she steers like a nice power steering tractor.   With the bucket empty on the ts500 loader she steers like a tractor with manual steering and no loader. With a bucket full forget it she doesn't turn for nothing. From what I have been able to discover from the old timers here the ts500 loader is just too heavy for the power steering system on these tractors.   My frontend would tend to say that it is too heavy with all the brakes and welds on it before I got it. I was wondering about swapping it out with a different system all together or another thought was to replace the tyrod with a hydraulic cylinder so the steering is a cylinder with more force. Sort of scared I will just brake the steering pivot arm on the tire end whatever that is called. But I think the problem isn't so much the pump as the system just not being able to put much force on the tires. My uncle told me well it is still alot better then the d14 we had without power steering and a loader that loader was smaller and you could only turn with breaks. I hit a post in my 1720 something barn the other day and it made me cry having to fix it because I couldn't steer the d15 in there faster enough.

Joe can you t off of the hydraulic pump for the loader with a priory flow control valve in place of the pump you suspect is bad.

what about a char-lyn setup? would that work?

   Hey Corbinstein,,,,Seems I 've read somethin bout the Char-lyn  pump,,,wasn't it a replacement, belt driven pump used on the WD's?
  Fact is,,,I think ole Shameless had one on thet WD he stole,,,,,er,,,,,, from thet guy tryin to sell if off a trailer,,,WAIT,,,I remember now,,,,He put it up for bid and,,,,and,,,I thought I had the high bid,,,then he went and changed the subject on me,,,,and I plumb forgot all  bout it....  HMMmmmmmm,,,,,,,???

We do not feel bad about altering our tractors. We are just making them modern and more usable. We do try to make our modifications look good.

I am not really into doing pictures. I should teach my self. I do know how to text pictures or maybe even email.

Phone is four l seven 4 three seven nine 4 9 l. I would love to share pictures with you and others on this forum. Send me a text and I will take pictures this afternoon when I get home

Greg you have it right. The only reason I suggested using the other pump is Joe said his pump needed an expensive rebuild.