Farmall Electra

The tractor mounted gearbox is very rare. Some have said only 103 complete side mounted units were sold. I think most of them were taken off because it was a constant mesh setup. It drove off the gear that sent power to the IPTO. Electrall on top and IPTO on bottom. I removed the gear box on my tractor to see if it could be easily reproduced. A lot would depend on whether the gears are a standard catalog item. Apart from that there are two machined shafts, at least four bearings, (probably standard), and several cast iron castings which would have to be poured and machined. It looked to me like three or four thousand might get the first gear box in the hands of a customer.

I believe everything else for the installation is available on the PTO and trailer models which are more abundant. That would include the mounting bracket for the AC generator and the turnbuckle for belt tensioning. I have seen some sheet metal control housings that appear different but I don't think that would be a problem to reproduce. The belt guard is unique to the side-mounts.

I am willing to listen to anybody who might want to do a business venture concerning the reproduction of the side-mounted Electrall. Personaly, I think it is a losing endeavor because I don't see the demand. One has to understand that the other Electrall configurations are relatively scarce in their own right. Who is willing to spend $10,000 for a remanufactured tractor mounted Electral?

My email is open. I can shoot some pictures but I don't think they will turn out well unless I remove the gearbox. If somebody wants me to wrench on the tractor so they will have some good pictures, we will have to negotiate a price for that service.

Did a Google search for Electrall, and Wardner's was the first to show up!

• Warnder's Electrall 400

Exluding gears, bearings, gaskets, seals, clips, dowels, washers, bolts, and the pulley which is splined, there are five parts that need to be made from scratch. Twenty-six parts total. This would be a challenging project for a well equipped vocational school. The welding and fab shops could also make the tin parts.

My question seems obvious, at least to me. Did you have a tractor set up with an Electrall and did these parts become spare parts when you decided you had enough of the gear lash noise associated with the heavy pulley acting like a small flywheel? In other words, too much click and clack?

A more interesting question is what happened to the gear box? Now that is something I would buy and you could sweeten the deal with the covers. I have no use for them currently but I suppose they would be handy if I found a gearbox. In short, send me an email and we can work out the details. Thanks.

Electra is an old Buick. ElectrALL is the short-lived AC generator option for FarmALL tractors (note the "ALL" theme).

Good luck getting parts. I hear that Electralls are fairly rare, and parts are almost nonexistent.

An old buick and a bad movie