WD45
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Printed Date: 06 Jun 2025 at 11:46am
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Topic: WD45
Posted By: Bubba1957
Subject: WD45
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 10:03am
| Can anyone tell me what the flat lever controls uploads/25593/IMG_9857.jpg" rel="nofollow - uploads/25593/IMG_9857.jpg |
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Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 10:33am
| Does your tractor have a belt pulley that this lever goes to? It might engage and disengage the pulley. If so, that a cool rare option. |
Posted By: Bubba1957
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 10:45am
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No it does not doesn't look like it ever has tractor is in woods can't get a great look at it with all the brake pedals and stuff right beside it seems to go down to some linkage rear wheels are locked up thought maybe this had something to do with it can't get it to move at all |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 12:47pm
| Looks like its where the brake lock mechanism should be located.Maybe used that lever to lock the brakes? |
Posted By: Bubba1957
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 12:59pm
| Could be but doesn’t look like a normal mechanical brake lock looks more to be internal I was hoping it had something to do with the rear wheels being locked up |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 5:22pm
| Is that the mechanism that disconnects the hand clutch when you hit something with the plow or other snap coupler implement? |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 9:13pm
+1 ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
ac hunter wrote:Posted By: Dennis J OPKs
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 9:39pm
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At least on mine, the flat lever has nothing to do with the hand clutch kick-out. Could possibly be a brake lock in place of the rod. Surely there is another one out there with that oddity?
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 1:31am
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Might find it is used to unlock the snap coupler... sort of like used on WD45 Diesels. Never seen a rubber stop block for the hand clutch either, maybe never took notice of them before. Maybe in the 75 +/- years it has been around, the owner modified the tractor. Like Dennis J's comment that it could be a more positive modified brake lock. What is the serial number?
------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 6:08am
| My WD45 has the rubber stop block on it just like that |
Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 6:17am
| The rubber stop block for the hand clutch lever was when it was equipped with the "rock throw-out" accessory for plowing, which this tractor has. The violent release of the hand clutch lever would eventually break the brass collar or something else, so there was a rubber stop designed to solve that problem. |
Posted By: Bubba1957
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 8:59am
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I haven't been able to find the serial number bought property next to mine and inherited the tractor it has sit for 5 to 6 years but I knew it ran at one time. I put another post up about rear wheels locked and seems to be brakes locked up I thought maybe this lever had something to do with it but didn't see this lever in any illustrations anywhere. Tractor is in woods hard to see where it is connected with all the brake pedals and pto lever and hand clutch .I really appreciate all the input
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Posted By: Dale Hardtke
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 12:22pm
| Hand lever ????? Looks like it could be a guard to keep Heat Houser away from the hand clutch lever. If it was a lever, it sure was not used much |
Posted By: sparky
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 8:00pm
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One of my 45’s has that lever and it sets the brakes. ------------- It's the color tractor my grandpa had! |
Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 8:40pm
| Didn't somebody make an aftermarket parking brake? Could that be it? |
Posted By: sparky
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 8:43pm
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After some thought I think I have another one in my parts stash.
------------- It's the color tractor my grandpa had! |
Posted By: 55allis
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 11:30pm
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Looks like the foot clutch lock out I had on my 45 but I know it’s the wrong side. The rubber block is for the rock kickout as Dr Allis said. I know that because I have a nos kit for a 45. ------------- 1955 AC WD45 diesel with D262 repower, 1949 AC WD45 |
Posted By: Steve A
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2025 at 4:20am
| Keep following the linkage and see where it goes. If you can't figure it out there, take a picture of whatever is at that point and post it. |
Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2025 at 6:48pm
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Here ia picture of the lever that was on my WD when I bought it. But that was a few years ago, so I don't recall where it was on the tractor. When I was finishing restoring it two years ago. The only place I could find where it came from, was the clutch pedal lock out lever. It did go under a bolt on trans cover. The lock out lever has a hole in it, and the end of the chain has an eye bolt. I didn't reinstall it.  ------------- 1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207 |