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Please help identify homade tractor components

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John IL

09-16-2002 01:12:46




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I will soon be purchasing a homemade tractor which belonged to a deceased relative who purchased it some years ago and had it stored in the back of his machine shed. The engine is a Wisconsin VF4. The front spindles, wheels and hubs appear to be Crosley as it has "Crosley" accross the middle of the hubcaps. The transmission and rear end however, are still a mystery.The transmission appears to be a GM truck transmission of some type. There is a "GM" and "590474" cast on the left hand side. It is a toploader and has a PTO on the left hand side. There is no PTO cover on the right hand side. The gear shift lever is shorter than one would expect to see ( about 15-20" long or so)on a truck and has two bends in it. It also has a weird lever near the shift knob with a heavy wire rod that goes through the top cover of the transmission. Must be a reverse lockout or something? The PTO has six bolts and the topcover has six bolts also. The PTO itself also has a short shift lever with a knob on the end. The PTO is apparantly an older Chelsia unit with the words: "Machine Products Div Central Fibre Products Co Chelsia High Shaft" . This might be a clue as to the vintage of the transmission. The right hand side of the transmission has a rounded bulge at the bottom similar to an SM420 , but it doesn't look like an SM420. It does not have a backup light switch and I cannot see any place for a speedo cable to connect to , but there are some bolts/plugs on the tailshaft housing that could have been installed in place of a speedo cable drive. The tailshaft housing is very short.
The rear end is even stranger. The differential itself is pretty conventional looking (appears to be standard automotive of some type , GM maybe?). It is a one peice cast housing with a sheet metal cover on the back. The only labeling on the differential housing makes some reference to "US patents". But this is where it gets weird--the ends of the axle tubes are attached to metal housings which enclose a chain drive, which in turn drops down to stub axles below to drives each wheel. The chains are only visible by removing pipe plugs in the chain housings to look inside. The wheels have both parking brakes and hydraulic drum brakes and look like automotive or truck type. The brake master cylinder appears to be a vintage single cylinder type. The wheels are 5 lug 7/16" dia stud . The measurement from outside to outside of two studs is 3 1/8" . The wheels appear to be older vintage automotive type. The brake drums are fastened on by means of a hole in the center with a large castle nut on the end of the "axle" shaft to hold it in place. The rear end assembly was definitly factory made and not made by the builder of the tractor. Upon closer examination it is easy to tell which welds were factory and which ones were made by whoever built the tractor. I took some photos and will post them assuming they turn out (it was dark in the back of the shed where the tractor is )

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Allan

11-10-2002 16:26:20




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 Re: Please help identify homade tractor components in reply to John IL, 09-16-2002 01:12:46  
That transmission sounds like a 40's GM truck unit.



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