41 JD B, pretty straight tractor, never repainted, but upon teardown and dragging the block down to the machine shop to be bored, it came back as cracked. Crank splines where the clutch driver runs, were bad and needed a crank. I strongly suspect the head is cracked after the block fiasco.
At that point, I was debating using it as a parts tractor or selling it and finding a better candidate. Mentioned that on FB and on the forum here.
While searching for a block, and I was balking on the forum that everybody wanted for a bare block, 1/2 the price of what a running B goes for around here. The general consensus was that I was being a whiney *** and I should expect to pony up $6500 to restore a B [ridiculous]. Yes, seriously it was a bunch of guys with the attitude.
Some of the SAME guys who actually posted that I should just pony up and pay my dues to be in this hobby, actually messaged me and offered to "haul away my B for free" when I posted that I might part with it and find a better suited project.
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Today's Featured Article - Good As New - by Bill Goodwin. In the summer of 1995, my father, Russ Goodwin, and I acquired the 1945 Farmall B that my grandfather used as an overseer on a farm in Waynesboro, Georgia. After my grandfather’s death in 1955, J.P. Rollins, son of the landowner, used the tractor. In the winter 1985, while in his possession the engine block cracked and was unrepairable. He had told my father
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