Front axles

DeltaRed · Feb 25, 2015

Bryce's post below got me to thinking about odd/mismached fronts .Either ones I have personally done,or ones I have seen.I have put a WD9 front on an M,a SC front on a F12,Made a wdft from a flipped pickup axle,installed on an H,Currently own a JD'A' with a IH 'M' axle.Have a friend with a Case VAC axle on a Farmall 'H',another has a JD 60 with a WD45 axle. Local feedlot has a 3020with a front from a 1370 under a huge loader.Another guy had a 3010 propane with an Oliver 77 axle.Seen other old loaders with 2 ton truck axles. What have you guys seen? or own?

rustyfarmall · Feb 25, 2015

How about an F14 with a model A Ford front axle? Don't remember the particulars, but it was used as a"mud" tractor.

Fordfarmer · Feb 25, 2015

I bought this Ford 950 off ebay a number of years ago. Didn't need much beyond a battery, alternator, and rewiring. Never figured out exactly what the axle was from...probably some truck. Used a '70's GMC p/s pump.
Consigned it at a local sale. Supposedly went to Alaska, along with enough other stuff to fill the semi flatbed.

mazemeister · Feb 25, 2015

how about this, has anyone ever heard of a front axle from a deuce and a half being used on a tractor? wouldn't turn too sharp, but could be the starting place for a home made mfwd.

60 acre hillside · Feb 25, 2015

I bought an Allis Chalmers WC with an F-12 complete front end on it. Looked silly but drove good. I put another WC front on it.

J.Wondergem · Feb 25, 2015

(reply to post at 12:48:13 02/25/15)

My Dad had an 06 IH with a loader to load logs. He broke the front end into so he put a Ford front end from a 40 s Ford F 8. He steered it with hydraulics.

Brown Swiss · Feb 25, 2015

Strangest I have seen is an H JD with a Case wide front and a loader on it, the guy steered it from a control valve and had live hydraulics from a pump on side the flywheel. He used it with a home made bale grab for his individually wrapped silage bales.

Fordfarmer · Feb 25, 2015

Can't find the picture of it now, but I saw a Ford 9N with an ex-military (Jeep? Dodge?) front axle. Doubt there was enough power there to really make use of it, but it was nicely done, and a good show piece.

Ron in Nebr · Feb 25, 2015

I have an F-12 with a narrowed I-beam axle out
of an old car under the front of it. My guess
is it's out of a Buick car, since one side
still has a Buick hubcap. It's pretty crude, as
far as welds go...but must be strong enough,
it's still in one piece.

And they must have decided lug nuts were just
too much extra hassle, since the rims are
welded directly to the wheel hubs. Only way to
change a flat is to jack it up and get out the
tire irons.

WIZZO · Feb 25, 2015

(quoted from post at 10:44:49 02/25/15) how about this, has anyone ever heard of a front axle from a deuce and a half being used on a tractor? wouldn't turn too sharp, but could be the starting place for a home made mfwd.

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Selene in Italy started to manufacture 4wd kits to fit various makes of European tractors in the late 1940's. They bought WW2 surplus front axles off the GMC CCKW 6x6 truck brand new in the box and shortened the left side. Drive taken from a sandwich box between the clutch & gearbox, and a side drive shaft

The brand name was Manuel.

In Britain Roadless Traction who converted Fordsons into crawlers took the agency to build 4wd axles/sandwich boxes onto the Fordson Majors on the British market.

This system continued on Ford based tractors.

Roadless also built some of these conversions onto the British built B-450 & 634 tractors

michford · Feb 25, 2015

There were at least two different aftermarket kits sold in the 1950's to convert a Ford 800 hundred series and the later 801 series with a MFWD. A company called Elenco used surplus Powerwagon front axles that were narrowed and flipped over to place the pumpkin on the left, and made their own mounting brackets and chain driven gearbox to supply drive to the front axle. Elenco was sold through Ford tractor dealerships and could be installed by a dealer. Another aftermarket company that supplied a kit was Napco who apparently partnered with Sherman to offer a MFWD kit based on a Dana 44 closed knuckle front axle. They also made their own mounting and chain driven gearbox as part of their kit. Their are a few pictures of Elenco equipped Fords in the photo section of this site. There are very few pictures of Fords with the Sherman Napco conversion and they are more uncommon than an Elenco conversion.

Moline_guy · Feb 25, 2015

The case sc is my uncle's that my grandpa bought new. When they would put a tractor on a farmhand they would use a steel I beam and then weld spindles from 40's era cars on the ends. They would hold up well to the heavy loads and added stability over a narrow front.

Some guys would use truck front ends on there loader tractors, but this usually made them very hard to steer unless they had power steering and for most purposes it was overkill.

The vac was at an estate auction a few years back, you use what you got.

DeltaRed · Feb 25, 2015

My neighbor has a VAC with that same setup!It's out in the boneyard.

fixerupper · Feb 25, 2015

Several years ago a salvage yard by me was modifying 1370 Case axles to fit 4020's with loaders. This was back when 4020's were being retired from the field and loaders were being put on them. The salvage is in cattle feeding country so I suspect there was a local demand.

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