early B followed me home

rockyridgefarm · Jun 17, 2014

Hey all,

It just leapt on my trailer, it's not my fault!

Picked up this ol' girl off CL. Flat top fenders in the bed. I'll need a different hood as it's rusted out, but it runs really well. Billed as a '39, but the tag is tin and unreadable. Wouldn't tin serial tag make it a war tractor?

Aaron S. · Jun 17, 2014

Nice find! Flywheel and brakes are wrong for a 39 or 40. Is the
frame cast or angle?

Mike M · Jun 17, 2014

At least it let you chain it down before it got away !

You likely have one made from 1941-1946 ?

The Dukester · Jun 17, 2014

I would guess it's a '41 or '42. Most of 'em after that came with reversible front wheels. I can't tell for sure but I presume it's a 6 speed...if it's not then it's a very early '41...It's not the "first edition" of the styled ones, the flywheel, brakes, slotted front wheels and the muffler (which has been replaced, probably) say it's a later than '39 or '40.

rockyridgefarm · Jun 17, 2014

Just got back for town for a pair of tubes. The valve stems were ripped off from sitting flat. I got the tubes with the fatter valeve stem it's s'posed to have. Tood bad - the old ones said Made in USA. the new ones say Made in China...

Yup, 6 speed. What years did they use metal tags? I've been carefully trying to get it to give me the serial number, but no dice so far.

DP · Jun 17, 2014

Its a 1944 or earlier I would say The 45 models came with reversible front wheels, and as stated, the 39 and earlier 40 models had brake guards. If I remember right, the wartime frame came into effect sometime in 43, and it doesn't appear to have that. Just my 2 cents worth. Don

coonie minnie · Jun 17, 2014

39n and 40s will have 4 speeds and no shift
quadrant. Also, the gas cap and 'fuel" cap are
very close together on those. It appears yours
has a shift quadrant(hard to tell from the pic) so
I am in the 41-45 camp.

I had a "war" A with the cast frame once, it also
had pressurized cooling. With the big radiator
cap on yours, and the wheels mentioned below, 41-
43 would be my guess.

JR Hobbs did a good "how to figure it out w/o
serial number" decision tree quite awhile ago in
Green Magazine. Perhaps it was in a book GM did
on letter series tractors, too?

Or of course you could look up the serial
number...

Have fun with the new toy!

rockyridgefarm · Jun 17, 2014

So far, new front tubes, new plugs, temporary homemade gasket on the sediment bowl. replaced the busted hubs with hubs that came with it, and put the fenders on.

I've never had a better running two banger. It almost starts itself...

JRSutton · Jun 18, 2014

We've got a 43 - looks an awful lot like that one.

Bob Collins · Jun 18, 2014

'39 and '40 have the 'fenders' on the brake drums
along with what others have mentioned.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 18, 2014

41 would have a aluminum tag.

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