Second 1950-T

Galen Houk · Apr 21, 2017

A few years ago I bought a single air cleaner 1950-T from an area farmer, only 2400 original hours. Spent a lot of money overhauling it and now investigating a click in the rear end. Today I brought home a second 1969 1950-T dual air cleaner from the same farm with 3200 original hours and a knock in the engine. This is a very nice original and I hope I can save it but I am not going to spend a fortune on the engine like the other one. It is much too nice to part out. The grille isn't even rusty. Both are cat III 3-point with oil cooler and extra oil capacity. He said they did all the heavy field work with this one for years without a problem until now.

TASO · Apr 21, 2017

If you want to keep and work the tractor, you may want to investigate a Cummins repower. There is a lot of information on this forum. Just search under "repower". Parts for the Waukashaw engines are getting scarce and pricey. You could probably sell the head, block , and manifolds and help pay for the Cummins and mounting kit. I repowered a 1750 with a 354 Perkins and if I were to do it over again, I would have gone with the Cummins. After I got done, there was not much difference in cost. Good luck- it is a nice 1950T.

rrlund · Apr 22, 2017

That's one of those things that you just park in the back corner of the shed until you get tired of looking at it and have some money burning a hole in your pocket. Hopefully both at the same time.

Galen Houk · Apr 25, 2017

I took off the oil pan. I haven't gotten time to take off rod and main caps yet. That will probably tell the story of how much work it needs. I don't see any catastrophic damage. There is some very fine metal powder in the oil pan. It has the six sided rod bolt heads. Maybe the rod bolts stretched and allowed the bearings to be damaged. I have no interest in repowering it. Around here 100 hp tractors are haying or yard tractors and won't ever see any field work. The turbo Waukesha engine has a very nice sound and works very well with all of the updates. These are late 1950-Ts and neither one had any block damage after years of heavy work.

Don-Wi · Apr 26, 2017

Sounds like the wrist pins to me. Same symptoms our 1855 had. Caught it before knocking a hole in the block, but I think a rod and piston needed to be replaced.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Galen Houk · Apr 26, 2017

I can look at it some more after the Le Sueur swap meet this weekend. I hope the crank is good. It wouldn't be to bad if it is only a piston or two. I have a parts 1855 with a hole in the block that I could rob parts from. Could the pistons and rods be the same? Where did you get your engine parts?

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