What to do with a dead D14

KCTractors · Aug 8, 2022

I bought a D14 with a tight engine and they had the head off for sometime the way it looks. I wasn't impressed at all but I did buy it. Tractor has good rear tires and rims. Sheet metal is good, needs paint, power-steering on it, junk battery. My question is should I part the tractor out or should I go thru the engine? Seller said it is a 1959. I don't know if the rest of the tractor is any good. They told me it was shredded but I don't think so because the emblem on the steering wheel was off and the nut that holds the wheel on is almost rusted off. Oh, the tractor has a AC loader on it also.

DrAllis · Aug 9, 2022

Wide front ?? Trip bucket loader? or hydraulic loader with front pump ?? I'd probably fix it with an overhaul, but the way things cost today, $2,000 bucks probably won't get it done. Closer to $3K with my labor. New pistons/sleeves/mains/rods/clutch/pressure plate/valves/guides/gaskets/seals/grind crank,etc.

Jim.ME · Aug 9, 2022

Do you need some parts from it for another tractor? How much do you want to put into it beyond your purchase price? It might be a great tractor once the engine is rebuilt. It might be a gear jumper (especially since it has a loader on it) with no brakes and bad bearings in the finals. If the power steering pump is shot, you could have trouble finding one. The loader might be fine, or it could have hydraulic problems. If you part it out, you could be dealing with people for years over this, that, and the other details for each piece before it is gone. Do you want a project? Can you recoup your cost by selling it as is to a person wanting a project? Do you rebuild it, try to sell as is, or part out? If you think rebuild, are you going to go right after it and get it done, or will it be one of those, I'm going to rebuild that when I get time, while it just sets for years. This is a question only you can answer.

jvin248 · Aug 10, 2022

(quoted from post at 22:16:43 08/08/22) I bought a D14 with a tight engine... should I part the tractor out or should I go thru the engine? ...

The D14s had low production numbers, so the parts availability may be hard to find.

Part it out if you don't have any affinity for the model (did you grow up with one on the farm?). Otherwise spend the money to bring it back. Sometimes those stuck engines can be made to work. My father bought a cheap self-propelled Case combine with a stuck motor when I was ten or twelve and he got that working again after my younger brother and I bounced on a ten foot cheater bar while he pounded a sledge through a block of wood on the stuck piston.

The one thing I keep thinking about ... get a Tesla electric car motor or the Ford or GM electric kit motor (the Ford kit is shown off in a restored 1970s F100 or such model) and dropping that in a stuck engine WD. Batteries for ballast at the tractor pull

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Papaw8 · Aug 10, 2022

See if you can free it up. If the head is off clean the rust and soak it in something to penetrate. If head is on blow out cylinders with air then put penetrate in and let it sit. Rock in in high gear or drop the pan and put a jack under a horizontal crank throw if one is horizontal. Jack the front off the ground. If head is off see which holes the penetrate is still in and use a block of wood and hammer and tap that piston. Put the jack under one that will be going up when the stuck one would be going down. You might get by with just a hone and ring job.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 11, 2022

If the motor is the only problem I'd just be looking for a good used used motor or at least one that is complete and needs rings and sleeves.The motor from a D10,d12,D14,or D15 will work.Shouldn't
be too hard to find as many were junked with transmission problems.Of course you have no idea of the condition of the transmission in your tractor either and having a loader on it I'd be extra wary of it.

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