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Hey all. Have a chance to pick up a 1946 td6 with a rops and a 6 way blade. Tracks, pins, sprockets and rails look to be 75% but the right hand steering clutch is stuck. I think i can pick it up for $3000. Is this a good price?
 
Well I did a 45' a couple years ago cost more than $3000 to get it up and running. I had to give 1000 for it. It is a nice machine but there can cost to put then in good shape. If it is a good running and complete machine I would say 3000 is a little high.
steering clutchs can be fun, alot of work to get them out! I have hear of guy putting agaist a tree and work the clutch and it will free up. I have never been that lucky.
oldiron29
 
If the undercarriage is as good as you say the parts
are worth the asking price because they are NLA.

I have been successful in freeing stuck steering
clutch by taking up adjustment and riding. brake to
create heat.

I think a TD6 is easier to. work on than Cat by far.

Good luck
 
Thanks Tom, it's a pretty sweet little tractor. Even all the original gauges work. Main clutch is good too.
 
If you can take a look to see if the steering clutches are not a ball of rust. Like others have said push against something while pulling back on the steering clutch while standing on the brake. Maybe dropping the blade against a pile of dirt. Stan
 
The rops is aftermarket. It is hydraulic up and down and manual side to side and angle. All Is in great condition. The current owner has never used it due to stuck steering clutch
 

It's not real hard to get the clutch out if it really needs that. It would be best to get a set of manuals for it. (Operators,service and parts). It will save you a lot of time and headaches,
Good luck! They are a good old machine. They were very common in their day.

DWF
 
I'm surprised at an old TD6 having a six-way blade. I believe that every old IH dozer that I ever saw had the Bucyrus-Erie up-down only blade system. Huge hydraulic cylinders, probably comparatively low-pressure. Hydraulic pump powered by the front end of the crankshaft. Other than that I do remember some cable-lift blade systems.
Had a TD6 years ago. Ended up unloading it for $600. Old dozers are a money pit!
 
6 way if you are man enough to turn the dang things. Dad had a new one somewhere around 1950 or so and it was about the most worthless piece of junk we ever had. Only thing worse was the 150 loader he replaced it with.
 
I read a book a few years ago called "Sigfusson's Roads".
The guy started a winter freighting company in Northern Manitoba, I believe in the 1940's. They had to go over frozen lakes, streams, swamps and frozen land. Most of the crawlers of choice were TD-6's with no blade. They had other crawlers too, TD-9's,14;s and some 18's. They had several hundred crawlers in their inventory at one time. It seems as though they were all IH as that's all he talked about. The TD-6 seemed to be his favorite for the lakes as it needed less ice to support it.
It's good reading, not just about crawlers, but all the other problems of operating in remote areas with little support other than what they had along with them. One time they were coming with supplies to a remote Indian village and one of the residents could not believe a red crawler coming in, he had never seen anything like it.

DWF
 
we live in a high fire danger zone in the Sierra foothills. It is going to be mostly used to clear fire breaks. Nothing pretty! Thanks to all for your info.
 
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