Are We Crazy? John Deere Model A

After over 20 years of sitting outside, almost being sent to scrap 3 times, trying to sell it just as many, we have finally decided to restore our John Deere Model A. I'm restoring it with my father, and this is our first restoration. The tractor belonged to a family friend who has since passed, so there's a lot of sentimental value to it. It has no rear rims or tires and the front tires and rims are flat, but other than that were finding most everything else we have. Dragging it into our shop, we both had the same thought - "What the heck are we thinking?!"
Well, after about a week, we have most of the tear down complete, and I have to say I'm impressed with how easily the bolts have come out! A little PB Blaster and they spin right out. Our cylinders have some slight pitting in a few spots, but the pistons are in great shape. The rings are all free, although since we have it apart we will install new ones. The crankshaft we have yet to remove. Once we got the pistons off the crankshaft we we're able to get it spinning, but not very easily. Our guess is oil hasn't gotten to the bearings for some time and they may be worn out. We also removed the fly wheel and found one of the splines is severely rusted, so between that and the fact that we don't know how the journals are worn we may be looking at replacing the crank. The gearing in the transmission works pretty smoothly now, the PTO, Hi-Lo and all of the shifting forks move and the gears mesh smoothly.
Our only hiccup so far has been the pulley and the components related to it. We haven't been able to remove the clutch forks because of the disc that it moves is seized up pretty bad. We have tried heat and I've been soaking it with oil for 3 days but we have yet to see any movement. If anyone has some advice on how to tear down all those parts it'd be very helpful. I've included pictures at the bottom of this post so you can see what we're working with, and if there's anything else we can look for to identify the please let us know!

If it was just something that you hauled out of a fencerow,I'd say yes,you're crazy for putting time and money in to something so common and so rough,but since it has sentimental value,then you're doing what you need to do. That's the only reason for restoring something that far gone.

Lots of parts available for that Model A. Good luck with your project.

Thoses gears are about the rusty I've seen ? I bet the bearings are bad. Also looks like the bottom of the tranny case froze and broke by that drain plug.

You almost might just want to buy a whole nother A running for say $1500 and take it apart for the one with sentimental value.

(quoted from post at 12:48:31 04/25/16) If it was just something that you hauled out of a fencerow,[b:346def03ad]I'd say yes,you're crazy for putting time and money in to something so common and so rough,but since it has sentimental value,then you're doing what you need to do.[/b:346def03ad] That's the only reason for restoring something that far gone.

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Some will call you crazy but if you are like me a project like this has it's benefits. I could pay a shrink to keep me sane or I can work on my hopeless projects and some day have something. I find I can be ready to scream at the world when I go to the shop and work on a project for a while and mellow right out. This type of therapy is PRICELESS...

Good luck with your project and keep us up with your progress...