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JPG AUSTRALIA 
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Posted: 26 Jul 2010 at 12:12am |
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How rare are these in the U.S ,there is one for sale here on ebay,other side of the country for me.
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OrangeKiwi(NZ)
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Posted: 26 Jul 2010 at 5:29pm |
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Are you sure the crawler advertised is a KO ? The photos I saw on Ebay didn't show any fuel injection gear. I think it may be a standard WK crawler.
I know of about 12 WKO's in NZ, 4 are restored. Since parts for the oil injection system are hard to obtain, many have been converted back to straight petrol use. I think this is the case with many that still exist in the U.S.
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GreenOrange
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Posted: 26 Jul 2010 at 5:48pm |
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It looks like a gasoline K to me and the engine serial number would point to that too. Would have to see better pictures of the engine to say for sure. Complete & running KO's in the US are definitely on the rare side. As said, most in the US are converted to run only on Gasoline. Perhaps it has KO radiator sides on it?
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JPG AUSTRALIA
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Posted: 26 Jul 2010 at 9:26pm |
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You guys are probably right,it does have a carb on it on second look.Still never seen a k model over this side at all .Most of that vintage I've seen are always M models.I would think any of the oil motor models would be rare.Thanks for the replies.
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everett048
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Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 2:38pm |
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Also if you look very closely it has the remains of a steering wheel, and looks like you can see the end of a distillate manifold, also has what looks like a starting tank on front right corner and exhaust is on wrong side for KO early ones had 1 stack on left hand side of bonnet later had a single pipe on left if i am correct?Also if it was KO magneto would be other side.
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everett048
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Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 2:39pm |
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Sorry should read 2 stacks on later models.
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ianoz
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Posted: 11 Aug 2010 at 5:40am |
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Hi ,I have actually seen this machine ,but did not have a close look at it .We bought a cat R4 and was going to have a better look at the allis when we went back to pick up the cat .It defineatly had K inside a large O on the radiator .. Not knowing a lot about allis chalmers I asumed it was a KO ,so, maybe the owner did also . Ian .
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OrangeKiwi(NZ)
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Posted: 23 Aug 2010 at 2:45pm |
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The seller must have been reading our comments as the crawler is relisted back on Ebay with a more accurate description.
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ianoz
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Posted: 23 Aug 2010 at 5:03pm |
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Hi ,Orangekiwi , The seller changed the discription as i passed on the info from here .The seller is a lady who's husband died . He had a collection of 150 tractors that he was intending to restore and build a museum . As most of the tractors are out in the weather she is trying to get them passed on to the hands of collectors The info she is using is rough notes ,her husband wrote when he picked each machine up . His main love was fergy te20s ,with around 50 of them. I joined the forum to find out more infomation about this crawler ,and when i saw this thread it answered my questions about it being a KO which i was told was fairly rare ..As no one had replyed to this from weeks ago ,i was ready to join the hermits in the old forum . Ian .
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