Rear wheel WD45

It depends on what you want it to do. You didn't tell us what you are using it for and what it has for weight now. And how it is or is not working.
 
Thanks 4wdtom.
I use a small disc and I also use a two row corn planter.
Right now it has 14.9 by 28 rears with liquid fill. That's the way it was when I bought the tractor.
I'm getting ready to put a new left rear tire on it.
Charts say liquid adds 567# to each tire. I don't think I need that much weight and would rather not deal with the liquid. ??
 
If your replacing tire put new tube in it and use beet juice(rim guard). It won't eat out rims like cal. fluid. I think you will want the fluid in tires a WD 45 with 14.9 x 28s with no fluid or wheel weights weighs 3,880 lbs.
 
For what your doing good chance you do not need any weight at all. But if you run it with out fluid in one tire and fluid in the other that can lead to a safety hazard that can cause a flip over. My self I use winter grade wiper fluid in my tires if I need more weight. I also do the fluid fill and removal by my self and if you send me an e-mail I can send you a page that shows how to do it and one way you can set up and walk away and it will do it on its own
 
My e-mail is always open on Y-T so if you use modern you just click on my name or if you use classic you just click on send e-mail at the bottom of the box
 
I would say for what you are doing you don't need weight added. But as said above you don't want one tire loaded and the other not. If you decide to not load the new tire you can get most of the liquid out of the other tire by putting the valve stem at the bottom and letting it go flat. There well be some left and the other tire will probably still spin before this one but the difference will not be anywhere near as great and it will be safer. Possibly you could jack up the tractor and insert a small tube into the tire and suck out the remaining liquid. I never tried this but it might work if you have a pump that will draw it out. I can pull a two bottom (16") plow with mine with no added weight, it would be better with some weight but my tractor is retired and only works on plowdays or at antique pulls, where with a 6' chain it will pull around 6000# on a stone boat. I do add maybe 100# to the rear to get up to 3500 for that class.
 
What does your 45 weigh to get into 3,500 lb. class? When I bought mine I brought it home and scaled it over a certified scale and it weighed 3,880 lbs. We pull short chain and it d
oesn't pull good down in the light classes. It does better in 4,500 lbs. up to 5,500 lbs.. I am going to add one more rear set of wheel weights and try to get into 6,000lb. class.
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For "Farm Use", you need the rear tires loaded or have weights on the tractor or you cannot put all the power to the ground and the tractor is more stable with loaded tires..
We always used a 10' 7" disc and Duals for working plowed ground, etc..

I have a set I want to let go of.
 
My WD, with me on it, I am about 180, weighed in at 33 something 10 or 12 years ago when I first weighed it. At that time I didn't have the fenders on or the hood and radiator cowling. I have since added those things along with 2 extra fender brackets (for weight) on each side. It has the PTO, (no shaft), lift arms with latches, hydraulics, no generator, (mag and I charge the battery once in a while). I have a 1 1/2" steel bar connecting the lift arm latches (turned down on the ends to fit the holes under the latches), and usually a 20 lb. weight under the rear step. I also have the tool box full of steel, ( about 70 lbs.) to help offset my weight being off center. The tractor has been weighing at about 3580. I know this is over, the clubs around here give you 100 lbs over so you need to be 100 over or someone else will and everything else being equal you will loose. I have a narrow front end, rear tires are not oversize, I usually have about 5 gal in the tank. I usually do OK, I worry if Olivers show up, they are tough to beat. A few years ago there was some question with weights and scale at a local pull and I took most of the extra off and weighed in at 3380. Went and put on 100lbs and the scale said I was over by 50 something lbs. But as there was some question and I wasn't more than the 100 over I was OK. I have weighed it on at least 4 scales and have no problems, it is the same except for 10 or 20 normal differences between scales. Other WDs and 45s pull in the same class with me at times too. I have had one person who finds it hard to believe WDs can get down to this weight but I and others do it. One person says there is "solid" and "hollow" front steering castings. I don't know about this. The front end doesn't usually come up much, but on a good traction day the front wheels are barely on the ground on a heavy or last pull so balance is not too bad as set up. I do what I can to keep weight towards the back even moving my tie down on the trailer hooks midway back on the frame instead of near the front. Stock drawbar with plate with 2 1/2" hole in it bolted on, 20" high.
 
I don't think you could enter a 45 in the 3,500 class. My 45 diesel weighs over 4000 with no ballast of any kind.
 
In looking at your pictures again I see you have fairly large tires with the shallow angle lugs. Mostly I don't like either for pulling. Sometimes it seems these things are OK, but I prefer smaller, (maybe stock) size tires with the traditional 45 degree lugs. At least the weight of larger tires is on the back. I think the tire thing is like the old skinny 600 16 snow tires would cut down through the snow and find traction where newer fat snow tires floated on top. I think tractor tires are similar. Fat tires may well float better on a muddy field, and sometimes work better for pulling, but for most pulling conditions I don't see the advantage. Not until you weigh up a couple of classes. If you look and find Barbs Tractor Photos you can see some pictures of local pulls (eastern CT and western R.I.) She does a great job and has a nice site. I am the WD with the NRA plate on the front grill, and I usually wear a "boonie" hat. Look for Washington County or Brooklyn pulls. You will have fun looking over her site, she usually pulls an Oliver with "Rat Rod" on the side panels. And she is one of those Olivers that is tough to beat.
 
I see that Barb lists the Washington County pulls as WCTP. She also has a fine pulling calendar with trucks, tractors, and garden tractors. She and her husband Butch are fine folks. I don't know if she is selling calendars mail order on not but if you are interested you can e mail her from the photo site. Tell her Tom with the WD sent you.
 
I pull farm stock and you can't pull PTO,hydraulic and other things of tractor. WE can't use light weigh wheels or smaller tires on front The only thing you can pull is belt pulley.I run hitch at 18" high and 28" back of center of rear axle per club rules. I am running 14.9X28s with no fluid and with me (225 lbs.) on it I weigh about 4,100 lbs.. The way you are set up you would have to move up to class 2 top cut class with wheelie bars to pull here. I have trouble with Oliver's out pull me but they are running 38's and have more rubber on the ground.
 

I am in the center of Ohio..

These WD-45's were our "Big Power" in the late 50's, into the 60's..

We put many 1.000's of hours on them ( and the LS JD "B"'s too ).

They just kept going as if it didn't matter at all..!!

You see, we NEEDED to get the power to the ground..Dad's WD-45 CAME with a 4x14" semi-mounted plow and I SWEAR, he may have only had to drop to 1st gear 5 times in all the tears he ran it..

All 4 tires were ( are) loaded and we added a 2' Railroad Rail across the front for a little more front weight..and they still raised the front end plenty often, sometimes with the left ( Hydraulic) lever all the way down..

We knew what these WD-45's could DO LONG Before the recent flock of "Pullers" found out about them..

I do like to use the duals when discing loose ground or ....for that ONE time a neighbor walked by and asked if I had anything that might pull his DOZER out of a tough spot...Yea...NEVER Slipped a tire and brought him right out..

One in a Million, I know, but FACT..!!

In one long day ( Dark-to-Dark ) we could turn 50 acres and did that often..
 
The tires on tractor are all most new 14.9 X 28" Firestone 23 degree running 9 PSI. Our farm stock pulls are percentage pulls not distance. On our tracks the 23 degree seam to do better and are sought after by a lot of pullers. I keep tractor stock and remove nothing and take tractor to antique tractor shows when not pulling.
 
The diesel engine is probably heavier and you probably have loaded tires to weigh that much.
 
Most of the clubs around here where I pull don't have web sites. Bragging Rights Tractor Pulling does www.ctbraggingrights.com One of the last times I pulled with them was 2009 and if you go to their web site and 2009 results you will see me in the 3500 lbs class. I don't understand why your tractor is so heavy? You say the tires aren't loaded so how can it be?
 
45s are an impressive tractor, basically fairly simple too, you got to wonder if they couldn't sell thousands if someone started making them again.
 

By the time they put all the Safety bells and whistles ( and air pollution junk) on them, they would be no better or cheaper ...!!!

Guess that is what they call "Progress"..!
 
Diesel engine is slightly heavier being a six cylinder. Not that much heavier. I know for a fact my tires are not loaded. My tractor weighs 4,060.
 
It's a mystery then, I have no trouble getting down to 3500 as I have explained below I am able to add weight to get up to that weight.
 

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