V8 in wd45 or d17 ideas....????
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Topic: V8 in wd45 or d17 ideas....????
Posted By: AndrewGubbels
Subject: V8 in wd45 or d17 ideas....????
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 8:16am
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Hello guys I am thinking of a project tractor for going on tractor drives and for a unique show piece. Do you guys have any ideas or has anyone done this? I would be interested in purchasing something with the v8 in it already also. Any photos? Really I am just trying to make up my mind on a few things! Thank you much! Andy Gubbels ------------- Andrew Gubbels Gubbels Restoration |
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Posted By: Bill Deppe/AC Salvag
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 8:51am
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Have a friend in Illinois City, Ill, Don Emmons, who has done this a couple times. Give him a call 563 260-1211 |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 10:51am
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I've seen some. A small block Chevy with a lumpy cam would be cool. For something really unique, I saw a G at the GOTO in 2001 with raised front frame and a front mounted small block Chevy. Same guy had a Chevy powered B. He said that he used to build race cars. Then there was the G with duals a mower deck and a V-8 Olds in the rear at Portland GOTO. You are only limited by imagination. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 4:43pm
| i want to put a straight 8 hudson in a unstyled thats what i have been thinking about |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 4:46pm
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Here is a link to a few pictures from a 'Google Search' Gary https://www.google.ca/search?q=picture+allis+wd+with+a+v8+conversion&dcr=0&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=k5RtczpU0dwUbM%253A%252CIPYVxI-j24hgGM%252C_&usg=__AQlUWkLF8HnBlZlQ-0aeBy78Gfc%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS9f6Z2rXaAhUD0oMKHdzLDrUQ9QEILTAC#imgrc=QsyBTztqBi7_xM:" rel="nofollow - https://www.google.ca/search?q=picture+allis+wd+with+a+v8+conversion&dcr=0&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=k5RtczpU0dwUbM%253A%252CIPYVxI-j24hgGM%252C_&usg=__AQlUWkLF8HnBlZlQ-0aeBy78Gfc%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS9f6Z2rXaAhUD0oMKHdzLDrUQ9QEILTAC#imgrc=QsyBTztqBi7_xM: |
Posted By: Phil48ACWC
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 6:35am
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There are Funk Flathead Ford conversions. I've seen homemade Farm All H and M, Allis Chalmers WC, WD, WD45, B, and C's with V8's. Oliver 77 and 88 with V8,s. Small Block Chevys seem to be the most popular. I drove an Avery at a fun tractor pull with a Ford Ranger Pick UP V6 in it. Lots of fun with a very wide RPM range. They are doggy at low RPM because they don't have low RPM Torque like a tractor engine. Make sure you have good brakes because you'll need them. Click on site below for Marvin Baumann's collection of home built conversions. http://marvinbaumann.com/fordflathead.html" rel="nofollow - http://marvinbaumann.com/fordflathead.html
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Posted By: corbinstein
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 6:40am
| Now that Str8 8 would be KOOL! |
Posted By: Phil48ACWC
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 6:46am
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https://www.google.com/search?q=Allis+Chalmers+Tractor+with+Chrysler+Hemi+V8&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:Ce0dKOeus-LgIjhCzIFPO2oGLugoLqwM-ApFV5Qo22_1Ruu5SI5rF0wmxby0OXyUy4eAirBjHeFnpyOBIO8ddqJ8tlyoSCULMgU87agYuEdlWYASrJ000KhIJ6CgurAz4CkURPBLSq36G6c8qEglXlCjbb9G67hEycelk3_1oZLioSCVIjmsXTCbFvEftd4R-jmlwoKhIJLQ5fJTLh4CIRO92WPg8e_1ncqEgmsGMd4WenI4BF2LNcpDPZeUCoSCUg7x12ony2XEQENZ0dtibY0&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAo_D1lbfaAhVCuVkKHZeNASgQ9C96BAgAEBg&biw=1350&bih=643&dpr=1#imgrc=FHA4wjQRLu43TM:%20" rel="nofollow - https://www.google.com/search?q=Allis+Chalmers+Tractor+with+Chrysler+Hemi+V8&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:Ce0dKOeus-LgIjhCzIFPO2oGLugoLqwM-ApFV5Qo22_1Ruu5SI5rF0wmxby0OXyUy4eAirBjHeFnpyOBIO8ddqJ8tlyoSCULMgU87agYuEdlWYASrJ000KhIJ6CgurAz4CkURPBLSq36G6c8qEglXlCjbb9G67hEycelk3_1oZLioSCVIjmsXTCbFvEftd4R-jmlwoKhIJLQ5fJTLh4CIRO92WPg8e_1ncqEgmsGMd4WenI4BF2LNcpDPZeUCoSCUg7x12ony2XEQENZ0dtibY0&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAo_D1lbfaAhVCuVkKHZeNASgQ9C96BAgAEBg&biw=1350&bih=643&dpr=1#imgrc=FHA4wjQRLu43TM:
Click on above. That's cool. Don't get your fingers caught between fenders and rear tires.
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Posted By: Phil48ACWC
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 6:55am
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https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS790US790&tbm=isch&q=Straight+8+engine+in+tractor&chips=q:straight+8+engine+in+tractor,online_chips:buick+straight&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgnLDFl7faAhVmplkKHRruB_wQ4lYIJygB&biw=1366&bih=662&dpr=1%20" rel="nofollow - https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS790US790&tbm=isch&q=Straight+8+engine+in+tractor&chips=q:straight+8+engine+in+tractor,online_chips:buick+straight&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgnLDFl7faAhVmplkKHRruB_wQ4lYIJygB&biw=1366&bih=662&dpr=1
Click on above, Here's some straight 8's in tractors. Adapter plate to mate engine and trans is the key. Lots of other details to be considered.
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Posted By: Phil48ACWC
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 9:05am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPJZ_hR0hI%20" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPJZ_hR0hI
Click on above. Drive it like you stole it!!
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Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 9:09am
How about an 8V92 in a D17. Sure wouldn't want to try and pull anything with it, but it would sound good on a cold morning!  ------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: Roger Mn
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 9:13am
| there is a older man about 20 miles from me that has a hemi with headers in his WC he said its to load to drive |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 9:55am
| triple nickle or a 3208 cat or maybe a 6.9 ,7.3 ih in the d17 |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 2:25pm
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My uncle Carl who lived near Buckhorn, MO put an automotive V-8 in a farm tractor a bit larger than a WD45 about 1952. He used the tractor mostly to run a saw with the PTO. He had problems with the engine overheating. At the time I (at age 10) figured the problem was that the car manufacturer depended on air flow from driving down the road at 30 mph or greater cooling the engine block directly and so didn't use as big a water pump (or pair of water pumps). Could very well be that the tractor radiator wasn't capable of holding down the coolant temperature because of fewer fins and tubes than the automobile's original radiator. Might be that building a custom water pump with twice the volume capacity would have solved that problem or working the car radiator into the tractor in place of the tractor radiator. Gerald J. |
Posted By: garr
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 7:38pm
| Saw a WC the last time Allis Chalmers were at Gray with Chev V-8 & disc brakes |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 10:19pm
| Saw a 45 diesel chassis with a v12 Seagrave engine in it .Did a decent job. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 11:53pm
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I seem to remember that Shameless has a V8 Allis, maybe you could make a package deal for it and the pretty machine. Andrew, you could have an old fashioned car smash, you know, 3 hits with a sledge for $5. (on the pretty machine, of course!) ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2018 at 6:12am
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OK, tossing a V8 into a tractor is 'old hat', 'easy peezy', 'boring'....... Now if you want a UNIQUE ride, toss TWO small diesels,coupled inline into your project. Them 'surplus' VW ones come to mind. Dependng on room and tractor ,you might get 3 engines to fit. Yeah, another 'project' I'd like to do but too little time,too little space,too little money.... Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |