Cost to restore AC WD that has a running motor?

Agricon · Aug 16, 2009

Hi Guys

Would anyone know the cost to restore a AC WD with a loader to showroom condition.

The motor is running.
Good tires
Has a missing air cleaner oil bath
missing Batt. Box
and needs a new muffler.

Thanks.

Uncle Ernie · Aug 16, 2009

Show Room Condition? How much to have someone do it? $10,000... Have it for you in 6 months!

Agricon · Aug 16, 2009

No, how much to do it my self.

Texas Denny · Aug 16, 2009

Depends. Are you just going to make it look like new or are you going to replace everything that is out of spec? Cost to do yourself can vary from $200 to $300 all the way to $3000 to $5000 - doing it yourself. If you hire everything, might get it for as little $3000 or as much as $20000 depending on where you stop.

Max(ia) · Aug 17, 2009

Always find I have more in them then their worth.

M Nut · Aug 17, 2009

Showroom condition is pretty extreme for a WD Allis, however, you can make it look very nice and still have a tractor you can use without fearing a scratch in the paint on the hitch. I like my tractors to look good. I don't do the old truck tires, bent mufflers, busted out gauges bit. I do replace anything that needs it back to original parts. To make them look good with a new paint job and decent tires (not new), doing the work yourself, shopping around for best deals, I'd say figure $2000 give or take a couple hundred.

BDT in Minnesota · Aug 17, 2009

$5,321.37 usd...... that is for Billy-Bob's used tractor showroom... A reproduction crank for hand-cranking would run around $40.00 extra..

BDT in Minnesota · Aug 17, 2009

This figure would be suprisingly close.. Take a look at the drawbar and observe how "showroom" it looks... Then the pivot pin on the front axel.. Both would require to be welded in and machined back to new specs.Price out a new throttle quadrant and steering wheel and radiator. It all adds up fast. Too much expense for many people...

For your own sanity,, forget the "showroom" part of it and fix up a "nice, good running old tractor"".... Perfection is not required, and that old worm drawbar with the oblong drawpin hole can remain to verify how much that old tractor has done..

Then put that bugger to work and enjoy it..

Steve in NJ · Aug 17, 2009

That's really a tough question to answer, because "showroom condition" could have differnt meanings to different folks. To do it right, it greatly depends on the condition of the Tractor overall that you're starting with. If its mechanically sound meaning engine and drivetrain is in great shape, and the sheetmetal is in excellent shape, tearing it down yourself and having some things sent out like sandblasting for instance, would be an extra cost obviously, but you could probably do one up pretty nice to where you can still jump on it and go to work with it around $3000-$4000. Now, if its in sad shape all the way around, you could have quite a bit of dough wrapped up in it by the time yer' done...
Steve@B&B

El Toro · Aug 17, 2009

This tractor was redone by a man in Ohio for a lady that had this tractor redone for her dad for Christmas who bought the tractor new in
1954. I don't know what the cost was, but I was told it needed a lot of work. It probably looks better than new with Martin Senour's Crossfire paint. Hal

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