W9 McCormick

rustred

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this 1950 w9 has had a 50 year rest, has not been run since 1967. got it running yesterday and took it for a spin.
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Yaaaaaaa!!! I love those chunky wheat land tractors. I'll give it a good home if you don't want to keep it.;)
 
kinda funny u say that Jim cause i was talking about doing the same thing. just not sure exactly what to use on it. would it be a clear coat of some sort? I like original looks.
 
Dad had a Super WD9. It took a good man or 2 boys to operate it. I?d love to have that tractor back.
 
(quoted from post at 19:39:32 03/18/19) kinda funny u say that Jim cause i was talking about doing the same thing. just not sure exactly what to use on it. would it be a clear coat of some sort? I like original looks.

I'd just let nature take it's course. It looks that good after 70+ years with no clear coat it's not going to get worse.
 
I just bought one last summer and it?s a 1950 too. My great grandpa farmed 700 acres with a distallite burning W9 in the 1940s and 50s.
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Can those be "turned up" to around 100 h.p. and be reliable? When I was young I saw those in The Farm magazine and told dad we needed one. He said no that's way too big. Those are for wheatland farms. Later he got a 150 horsepower Allis Chalmers with not too many more acres.
 
Looks great.....spent many hrs. on a WD9 getting beat to death. The tractor was called "Thumb Buster" & it lived up to the name. They were tough old tractors. (it was on steel)
 
Great tractor enjoying some fun in the snow! What did you have to do before firing it up?
 
Gassers are shown and you can only put in larger bore sleeves, 4.500" vs 4.400" originals. Maybe some have made pullers with larger. High compression pistons were available at one time. Can't just "turn up" a gasser.
 
the story is that an old guy bought it new. he passed away and his neighbour was farming his land and bought it. tractor was sitting in a shed there. they moved it to their place . then he got a kid to pull the head off cause they thought it was seized. the kid never did finish the job. and in the mean time this tractor sat in their shop for eighteen years. then he thought he better sell it. I bought it and brought it home. finished the job. removed rad and flushed the mice, canola seed and mouse nests out. flushed the block was full of peas and canola. removed fuel tank and pressure washed it inside. was full of old rotten gas varnish and scale. made new battery cables 2/0 yes put in new 6 volt battery, set the valves, checked the spark,set the timing adjusted carb, oiled the cylinders, cranked it over about 10 times and away it went. ooh ya then shut her down and fix carb to governor tang, was not in place. then tried it again fired right up with 2 revolutions. warmed it up and then retorqued the head and set the valves. adjust carb again . then went for the first drive in the snow. and put a muffler on it. starts with 1/2 revolution now. I looked in spark plug holes and can see high dome pistons in it. so someone did an overhaul at one time. its about as original as it gets. it has about 17 years of work on a 69 year old tractor. so im happy with that.
 
thanks jim, I just didn't want to use something that would eventually yellow or start flaking off.
 
We had a W9. Spent a Spring Break pulling 4-14 plow and man, I was never so ready to get back to school! Steering was pretty light under a load, but of course you do all the steering at the ends, and that's a workout for a scrawny kid!

For a real test of your driving skill, try backing a pull plow into the back corner of a shed with it!

If you work it, be sure to let it idle for a good long while (maybe 20 minutes) before shutting it down. They're prone to cracking heads.
 

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