D-21 Restoration
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Topic: D-21 Restoration
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Subject: D-21 Restoration
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 4:33pm
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Pictures of my 1967 D-21 II. Before and After
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Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 4:35pm
| I guess the pics came out After/Before. Sorry |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 4:36pm
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Doesn't matter, no matter how you look at it, that is a beautiful tractor.
Thanks for posting. ------------- 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: KD in SE Ks
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 4:37pm
| Nice Chad. Thats a Beast! |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 4:44pm
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Where did you pick up that stack from, looking for one for my dad's D-21 as a present. ------------- 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: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 4:46pm
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AWESOME JOB!!
I clicked on the picture, and followed the link to the photo album of the restoration.
Thats a LOOONG ways from the air cleaner to the turbo! Good pictures!
Thats one cool thing about taking pictures during the restoration process, its fun to look back at them. Nice work! ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 4:50pm
 ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 4:55pm
| Thanks, the stack came from Ivan Sumerix. He helped me with allot of hard to find items. |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 5:26pm
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Here are a few more of me and my two little buddies on the old 21.
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Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 5:31pm
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Those are some lucky girls, and I bet they look back on this picture in 40 years and smile. ------------- 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: omahagreg
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 5:35pm
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Nice tractor, nice family! ------------- Greg Kroeker 1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader |
Posted By: Eric[IL]
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 5:40pm
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Great family picture! Im assuming that Moms taking the photo? D21 is very sharp !!
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Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 5:48pm
| Thanks for the kind comments. And no a friend took the picture, mom was working. This is what we do for fun when dads got the girls!! |
Posted By: Pat SW Ohio
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 8:35pm
| From someone who has gone through what you just did, awesome job. I have a '68 D21. |
Posted By: AndrewGubbels
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 8:40pm
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Looks great chad! Thanks for sharing! I like the chrome stack and of your two buddies look like they are having fun! Andrew Gubbels ------------- Andrew Gubbels Gubbels Restoration |
Posted By: stray
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 9:10pm
Parts stores for large (over the road) trucks can also get crome stacks, but you will need to know the ID that you need because they won't know that. ------------- 1969 190XT series 3 |
Orange Blood wrote:Posted By: stray
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 9:11pm
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Great looking tractor ------------- 1969 190XT series 3 |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 9:25pm
| Thats one MEAN tractor!! Looks Very Nice! |
Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 9:26pm
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That is one outstanding looking tractor and resotration job!!! Very nice!!! ------------- Matt Folkers FOLKERS RESTORATION Restoring vintage things to last so the future can enjoy our past. |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 9:59pm
This pipe that I put on this tractor is a 3" to 4". The exhaust elbow on my D21 is 3" as I'm sure they all are. |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 10:03pm
| This is off the subject completely, but how come I can't update my profile? I keep getting an error that talks about "Access denied" bla bla bla. Can someone enlighten me? |
Posted By: BLee Mn
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 10:50pm
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Very nice!!! Job well done ------------- Cowboy UP |
Posted By: ILGLEANER
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 11:02pm
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Looks awsome!!! I am getting one to look like that. IG ------------- Education doesn't make you smart, it makes you educated. |
Posted By: 79fordblake
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2011 at 11:49pm
| Dangit......now I want a tractor that I don't even need or would ever use. Looks great!! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 3:18am
| nice job!!! any of my tractors are next....uh....when you get time! |
Posted By: DarrylinWA
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 6:26am
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Very very nice Chad. Where did you get the hood decals or kit ? Take care, Darryl ------------- B 10 Custom. Serial # 1001 D21, First D21 built 69 #4498 and Last D 21 Built #4609. 1946 MM UTU. And 2000, 2005 Pete's. AC custom Hauling. |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 7:08am
| I also got the decals from Ivan. He has someone make them and they are great quallity! |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 7:20am
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Very, very nice Chad. You did a great job on her. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: d17brown
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 7:50am
| who does your chrome restoration, my local guy is getting pretty expensive, tractors look great |
Posted By: Brian G. NY
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 8:13am
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Beautiful job!
I think the best looking Allis tractors are the little B and its younger but much (much) bigger brother, the D-21.
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Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 10:05am
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Livermore Brass and Silver Shop. A little slow, but good quality. Phone: 270-278-2181------------- Chad(Ky) Galatians 2:20 WD45,D14,D17,D21,190,190XTNF,220,8070,R62 |
Posted By: Flint23
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 1:39pm
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Wow! that's one sharp lookin D21. Wish list just got longer..... ------------- been there done that, not doing it again... |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 1:52pm
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Great Looking Tractor!!! Never sold one but Allis Chalmers did a GREAT JOB on this one. Hard to believe in it's time it was one of if not the BIGGEST TRACTOR at 100 hp. Now 100 hp is not all that big. Five hundred plus is out there. Again - Great Job!!! Good Luck! Bill Long |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 3:17pm
Thanks, I had always wanted a D21 to restore and stumbled on this one in the weeds so I rescued her.
 ------------- Chad(Ky) Galatians 2:20 WD45,D14,D17,D21,190,190XTNF,220,8070,R62 |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 3:25pm
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Chad, I think you might want to rethink your choice of words, how about you use the word resurrect. I think what you started with was way past restoring!?!? :-) ------------- 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: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 6:03pm
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Yes, it was a mess. I have to thank my brother in law he's the painter. Alot of hours poured into this tractor, but it's always worth it in the end. My dad wants to start on the Two Twenty next. ------------- Chad(Ky) Galatians 2:20 WD45,D14,D17,D21,190,190XTNF,220,8070,R62 |
Posted By: dpower
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 8:11pm
| lucky it got a great home with u looks very nice |
Posted By: Dutchboy Johan
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 5:41am
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What a beauty of a D21 you have. It's a great job to save and restore a tractor as you did. ------------- ---> Better by Design <--- Johan Straver, Almkerk/ Netherlands Allis-Chalmers 190XT Ser.III #26829XTD |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 8:57am
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Thanks, I'm glad I found her. It takes allot of work and money to bring them back to life though. ------------- Chad(Ky) Galatians 2:20 WD45,D14,D17,D21,190,190XTNF,220,8070,R62 |
Posted By: Josh Day
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 9:05am
| very nice! |
Posted By: NickT(Ky)
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 12:54pm
| Chad, we haul corn to Livermore from E-town. Cut across from Hartford. Where is your place ? I see one farm near Livermore that has Allis and Gleaner stuff. Nick |
Posted By: bigallis1
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 2:37pm
| Awsome resto......... |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 2:38pm
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That's my neighbor he all orange and silver. He has 2-4w305's and 1-4w220 just to name a few. My place is about 3 miles East on the same road. What part of KY are you from? Etown?
------------- Chad(Ky) Galatians 2:20 WD45,D14,D17,D21,190,190XTNF,220,8070,R62 |
Posted By: JERRY-KS
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 5:47pm
| The D21 has to be one of the "MEANEST" tractors ever made!! Yours looks very special, & even more so with the family along. You did a very good job. JERRY-KS |
Posted By: NickT(Ky)
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 7:58pm
| Thanks Chad. Yes, Elizabethtown. My nephew went to U K with a guy that works at the Purdue elevator so we have started hauling corn there, sometimes Franklin on Tn. line. Take all the beans to Owensboro. 80+ miles but Petes with air-ride and cruise helps. So you are on the road from Hartford? SR136 maybe, can't remember! I've seen the 305s. |
Posted By: Eric NY
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 8:21pm
| Great job on the 21!! From the dates on the pictures it looks like it was about a 2 year project? That is what it took me to get mine done....everything is big, heavy and very time consuming......a major project compared to doing a D10 or 15. Eric NY |
Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 10:19pm
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Are you going to take her to some shows?? I am planning on attending alot more shows with my D-14 this year. I hope to see you and that AMAZING D-21. ------------- 1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500 |
Posted By: Chad(Ky)
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2011 at 10:25am
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Yes Eric it took a while but I didn't start on it till about a year after I bought it. ------------- Chad(Ky) Galatians 2:20 WD45,D14,D17,D21,190,190XTNF,220,8070,R62 |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2011 at 12:35am
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Beautiful restoration job! At least it seemed to all be there and not beat up. It always amazes me as to what people park in the fence row and the reasons they do it.
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |