I am in for a 1113 type restoration. (Awesome BTW.) This one will surely benefit from what you learned on the dozer. The hints are good that you are headed that direction. Looking forward to seeing it start and run along with the running evaluation. It's cool as it sits. Good luck.
I'm leaning towards saving this one more than the first W-4 you got. No specific reason other than it probably having less hours and the dedicated high compression head. I'm amazed the hood is so nice. What ever landed on the gas tank did manage to miss the hood by a long shot.
Ultimately it depends on the state of the guts. If this little gem turns to be as honest as it is on the outside, on the inside, then yep, this would be a better restoration candidate. The other one's not bad either. Whatever landed, also dinged the fender. The bends are in line with the gas tank. Tho, ultimately, moot point. Once the liner's gone, there's no worth to them anymore (unless you're keeping parts to assemble a lawn art tractor, in which case, that's fair game).
Squatch..... I am just a car guy. But your stuff is wearing on me...... SAVE IT!!!!!! The fact that all major components are still numbers matching, and has the radiator louvers as a rare option, is a no brainer to me... rebuild or restore.
Yep - a worthy machine. Nice "tractor archeology" with the contents of the tool box too. An 1113 project with this one would preserve a rare model . . .
Build this one Squatch! It seems like a goooood candidate, atleast for me sitting comfortably in my couch watching You do it 🙂. Thanks for the entertainment!
I've got it !!! They weren't wearing out the throw out bearing fast so they kept tension on the clutch to rectify the situation. Seriously i like it. Dad bought his H with implements in 1948. Thank you.
Always fun to puzzle about previous owners and their after-factory modifications. Some "enhancements" have no logic, while others are - hmmm, that works.
Hey Toby - I have a tank off the H with patina that will match pretty closely to the patina on the W4... It has an old lead solder repair on the top corner where the hood had rubbed through, but the inside is very clean... The repair could be cleaned up and made to look better. If you want it let me know!
I was thinking this tractor should get the CAT D2 #113 treatment… then you said the same thing! Great minds think alike! lol! That tractor is way to nice to part out. Looks like you have TWO new tractors for the collection!
The snow shows up fast! You’ll have a couple more days in November of Indian Summer and then it’s full time winter…enjoy! I lived it in Superior for the first 25 years and now TX is home.
Those up mounted lights ... I have found I really like "mid-engine" side light mounts as found on Allis Chalmers WD and similar tractors. When you are working at night and something happens, you have lights to work on the tractor too. I have retrofitted the family heirloom Ferguson TO35 with mid-engine lights (modern bright LED lamps on brackets from bolts near the battery tray). I'm not interested in period correct but 'getting the work done' with the old equipment. My 'newer' MF35 has LED vertical strip lights mounted where the round-eye lights normally are then decided on the heirloom tractor to put them back like the ACWD I have.
It looks to me like you’ve thought about my comment the other day a little more Toby, I can hear it in your tone of voice. You better put your buddies on the lookout for another W-4 parts machine to restore your Super W-4 with and plan on building this tractor back to new. Edit: The small Champion spark plug is for a Briggs and Stratton 2 HP engine from an edger or a mower. And I made the above comment before the video was over, now I’ve seen the end and you’ve basically confirmed my thoughts. Better get to searching for another one!
I must say that this honest and dignified original survivor W-4 is much more appealing to me than the painted over first one. Also, a 1948 build year does evoke images of postwar America still recovering from WWII, so this tractor is a representative of a time when such a machine represented a significant investment for a small farm (and by the looks of it the place where you hauled it from somehow looked like it was somewhat frozen in that same time, too), while in 1953 things had reached a 'new normal', and buying a tractor was nothing to write home about any longer I guess. Thus I would definitely be tempted to try to keep the older model alive and as close to its 'survivor' state as possible if I were in your shoes - which I am not, of course. Of course it would even be better if both tractors could be saved as working units - but let's not get to far ahead of ourselves here ... ;-)
Toby: It’s great to see you getting around and getting so much done as the eye heals. I think that the deadbolt bracket is actually an axle bracket from a wheelbarrow and you’re right that it’s fun to guess what the junk is in the toolbox and how it got there.
Spotted the tool box and was gutted that you didn't check it out but i guess the tractor has to come first, thanks for relieving my curiosity, headlights look great in that position gives tractor a face
@@squatch253 hey up mate sorry if I didn't write well, I said "thanks for relieving my curiosity" meaning the tool box with its chainsaw spark plug and other finds. Jon
It's funny when I watch ur videos the weather is usually the same as here in nova scotia 🇨🇦..u guys get lil snow ..we get a lil snow....u guys have hurricane type weather..so do we...jus thought I'd add that..haha
Snow here this morning too. Little spark plug out of a small engine Briggs I’m guessing. Or maybe a chainsaw. Nice old tractor. Shame to make it a parts tractor, but I understand where you’re coming from. Have a great day 👍🏻🔥
W4 and W6 were rare machines in the Kansas Wheat belt but an occasionally one model or the other would end up on the trade-in lot. We had a W9 and a 1952 WDR9. The both looked about the same paint wise as your W4 after just 3 years in the Dust Bowl conditions of SW Kansas. They faded fast and it was common on repaint to Use IHC cream white on radiator grill to give them the "Hereford" look.
Yes, Parts are hard to find for those, however, Please don't write it off as a parts tractor, you may find that with a little searching while you are down for a while, or with a little repairing that you can easily have a W4 and a Super W4
I also watch another UA-cam channel, "Adventures Made from Scratch". Silas and his dad own salvage yards in Kansas. They do a lot of farm clean-ups, I mean a lot with a multitude of old tractors. He has many old tractors in "his" yard. Might be a good source for finding an old W-4. Recently, he bought an old Case (not sure of the model) but it has the lower rear fenders similar to the W-4. Please, take a look at his videos.
I hope your eye is healing well. If you’re looking for Contant, while you’re on the mend, you could go through your future projects. You can go through your past projects. Thank you for your Contant. I enjoy your videos .
Well you did it again you went and got a tractor everyone is gonna want to see you restore. Please do. And yea I couldn’t stop watching your videos. Why you have to be so interesting?
Seems that the extra battery terminal was used to hot wire the starter motor, would be in close reach... 😉 Nice complete machine, either as a parts donor or a restauration on it's own... 👍👍👍
The lights caught my attention in that orientation too. Pretty cool! Seems too good for a parts tractor it seems. But I sadly understand the issue getting parts.
Those porcelain/ceramic fence insulators were super common, at least in Eastern Canada. I have a bunch of them from electric fencing from the early 80’s
I kinda dig the raised lights. Has that novelty 'frog eye' vibe or a more retro early automotive feel of the raised individual light pods that wrre all the thing for many cars in the teens, twrnties, and thirties. If there was brackets or remnants of brackets I'd think the raised lights would have been for snow plow reasons or could have just been a style thing from a previous owner that subsequent ones never changed. That aside, she looks rough but not so rough that it's beyond getting back into shape. Barring some serious internal gearbox, differential or engine issues. I'm not sure that it's ready to be a parts machine. But i say that without watching the entire video, i only made it to 6:09 before I commented. Now that I'm at the end, i hear you on some machines just have to become parts for a better unit. It's just facts. More so as things get older and more out of production, troves of NOS bits get found and thrown out decades before anyone thinks that those old tractor bits could be worth something. Whichever you decide on getting two running or having a basically new drivetrain in old metal look. I'd really like to see that the raised headlight look be carried on to the runner unit. Keep a bit of that history likeness there, amd maybe source a hook for the front end of the runner. It's odd how useful things like that are but don't get thought of until needed. I can speculate on the hook on the front of the W-4. Might uave gotten stuck and instead of wrapping a chain around the front axel. The hook was pinned there to use to pull the tractor forward out of the stuck. Or, similar using the tractor to pull backward on a stuck item. Since it's fairly common to veiw the V tread of a tire like those as having more bite turning backwards than forwards. It's kinda the same principle of having a cable slung along the underside of a tractor that's connected to the drawbar and through a clevis on the front. So if the tractor bogs the cable can be attached to at the front so when it's pulled. It's not pulling on the engine or front axel, the load is being transferred to the drawbar. Set-up like that is common for areas south of me for the large heavy quad track and wheel units pulling scraper pans that run into soft ground and sink. Loggers also did that with some skidders in swampy areas.
Have you any history on this tractor? Looks like that’s a vacuum valve on the manifold the same as what is used for on the old dairy farms. Looks like it possibly spent some of its life on a dairy farm. This tractor would be a awesome survivor tractor
I will wager this W4 was used building and mataining fence. The hook on the front was used to stretch wire, that little spark plug came from a chain saw, . Those bolts were for hinges and gate latches. He used it to drag a road going material trailer in the fields explaining the ball hitch. The dent is the result of cutting trees off the fence line . Pto used to power a post hole auger. Paper pulley could have powered a portable saw mill . What do you think?
Nice tractor. I have the same year tractor but it is a I4 industrial tractor. Your statement at the end of the video about having a part tractor for the part to fix mine may have answered my question. I have been trying to locate a seat assembly from the transmission mounting plate to the seat. Arm bracket bolt spring whole assembly. No luck finding so far.
Hey love the new video series Squatch. I would love to see you get this tractor running first. You should then put it side by side with the first w4 you got and go over each good and bad point with us that the tractors make for themselves and maybe then your audience could convince you of which one is the best option or you could yourself. Whatever comes of it I can't wait to see a new restoration about to happen.
My 51 W-4 needed starter rebuild and i had to remove belt pulley drive to allow enough room to remove it. Then you must make sure long bolt in housing (beneath fuel tank) is in place before you put back on or you can't get it back in hole. Mine is a little brat, it'll do 16mph down the road and is real fun and maneuverable at plow day pulling a two bottom 14" JD plow on steel. The kids love to sit on the fenders too. I'm kinda wondering about the lights on yours? Mine are top mounted as well with a three bolt triangular flange with a 3/8 or 1/2" close nipple for the light mount. Happy Tractoring! "Squatch", I watch and like all your vids. Rock On!!!
@squatch253 I go to church with two brothers that are mail carriers and they told me that they can't hire enough people who will work. that job is very physically demanding and most people are not fit enough to do the work. he said they hired 7 people and at the end of the week they had 2 or 3 left. they both said they worked 12 hours and 6 days a week.
Would the clutch spring be to avoid rusting the clutch plate to the fly wheel during outdoor storage? Our old ford 2N toolbox at least had the 1 size fits all nuts wrench of the N series, but also a hammer, and flat head screw drivers to help insert the drawbar pins. Old spark plugs seem useless, unlike a porcelain fence insulator. Good times galor. Thanks for the senic road trip.
It looks like you might have a tough decision to make. I look forward to seeing you go through the process of which tractor to make the part’s tractor or maybe you will decide to restore both. Great video Toby
For what it is it looks like a fairly solid tractor and I'm thinking she's going to run just fine didn't see any bronze puddles on the underside anyplace and nothing straining to get out of the insides be sure to check the antifreeze in it up there don't want any avoidable problems. Will keep tuned Squatch with exception of that jamb in the fuel tank it's not a bad looking tractor overall.
I am glad I watched this video. Some one was trying to convince me to send my W-4 to the scrap heap. Know anyone in the MB/ND area that is looking for one? I am thinking MB would be to far for you to come if you were interested. I am still not sure I want to let it go, but interested in finding out what kind of interest there is in it. What is the standard tire size of the rear wheels? 13-26?
Good choice big wire keeps the cranking speed up and the current draw at a low level. I like a minimum of 1/0 wire on a 6 volt system. I had to go to 1/0 as I was already using #1 wire on 12 volts.🤷♂😉
I love digging through old tool boxes, its a favorite pass time of mine. Ive gotten alot of cool wrenches that way.
I knew where this was going when you said you could get the correct seat new!
I am in for a 1113 type restoration. (Awesome BTW.) This one will surely benefit from what you learned on the dozer. The hints are good that you are headed that direction. Looking forward to seeing it start and run along with the running evaluation. It's cool as it sits. Good luck.
I'm leaning towards saving this one more than the first W-4 you got. No specific reason other than it probably having less hours and the dedicated high compression head. I'm amazed the hood is so nice. What ever landed on the gas tank did manage to miss the hood by a long shot.
I agree, this one seems to have very solid bones. And the patina! Nice.
Ultimately it depends on the state of the guts. If this little gem turns to be as honest as it is on the outside, on the inside, then yep, this would be a better restoration candidate. The other one's not bad either.
Whatever landed, also dinged the fender. The bends are in line with the gas tank. Tho, ultimately, moot point. Once the liner's gone, there's no worth to them anymore (unless you're keeping parts to assemble a lawn art tractor, in which case, that's fair game).
Squatch..... I am just a car guy. But your stuff is wearing on me...... SAVE IT!!!!!! The fact that all major components are still numbers matching, and has the radiator louvers as a rare option, is a no brainer to me... rebuild or restore.
We all know it's not a parts tractor...enjoy the new project, she's got the magic !
Yep - a worthy machine. Nice "tractor archeology" with the contents of the tool box too. An 1113 project with this one would preserve a rare model . . .
I hope you decide to fully restore and repaint this beauty when the time comes.
Build this one Squatch! It seems like a goooood candidate, atleast for me sitting comfortably in my couch watching You do it 🙂. Thanks for the entertainment!
That micro spark plug we use on our 5 horse power Briggs and Stratton rotertiller.
I've got it !!! They weren't wearing out the throw out bearing fast so they kept tension on the clutch to rectify the situation.
Seriously i like it.
Dad bought his H with implements in 1948. Thank you.
I like that screen door spring on the clutch.
Always fun to puzzle about previous owners and their after-factory modifications. Some "enhancements" have no logic, while others are - hmmm, that works.
Toby, your near-photographic memory never ceases to amaze. :-)
Dang snow returns another season, great thanks for the walk around of the W4. :)
Great walk around video! Would be a great one to do like the Swamp Angle! Thanks again Toby
I love this tractor, the lights look good like that.
At least when you use one for parts you store parts not used properly.
Please please please rebuild it! I very much enjoy you bringing these awesome old machines back to life.
Hey Toby - I have a tank off the H with patina that will match pretty closely to the patina on the W4... It has an old lead solder repair on the top corner where the hood had rubbed through, but the inside is very clean... The repair could be cleaned up and made to look better. If you want it let me know!
While going through the contents of the toolbox, I so much loved the comment,, "there's the sediment bowl base, , , oooooof" .
😂
Looking forward to seeing the outcome on this one!
Fantastic video Toby! Seems like that w-4 could very well be a low hour machine? Looking for to the next video. Cheers
I was thinking this tractor should get the CAT D2 #113 treatment… then you said the same thing! Great minds think alike! lol! That tractor is way to nice to part out. Looks like you have TWO new tractors for the collection!
The snow shows up fast! You’ll have a couple more days in November of Indian Summer and then it’s full time winter…enjoy! I lived it in Superior for the first 25 years and now TX is home.
Nice walk-around. Enjoyed the tool box exploration. Looks like this tractor would make a fine restoration series - please make it happen!
👍 ha! Tool box was the icing on the cake!!! 🤗😂
Agree 💯
I was starting to think that toolbox was bottomless 😜
This baby is too nice to use for parts. It deserves a nut and bolt resto!
Excellent video it would look awesome as a patina rebuild tractor
Would look awsome as a restore too 👍 😂🤗 ✌️
Alternate comment can’t wait to see the Skid plate he makes for it 😝
love those turned up lights
The spring is the "Clutch Rider-o-Matic 5000." When your dad yells at you for riding the clutch, you install one of those.
I really like both of your new to you W-4’s thank you for the walk around it makes my day!😊
Looks like you are gonna have to find a new parts tractor.
Great bones on that old machine !!
Those up mounted lights ... I have found I really like "mid-engine" side light mounts as found on Allis Chalmers WD and similar tractors. When you are working at night and something happens, you have lights to work on the tractor too. I have retrofitted the family heirloom Ferguson TO35 with mid-engine lights (modern bright LED lamps on brackets from bolts near the battery tray). I'm not interested in period correct but 'getting the work done' with the old equipment. My 'newer' MF35 has LED vertical strip lights mounted where the round-eye lights normally are then decided on the heirloom tractor to put them back like the ACWD I have.
It looks to me like you’ve thought about my comment the other day a little more Toby, I can hear it in your tone of voice. You better put your buddies on the lookout for another W-4 parts machine to restore your Super W-4 with and plan on building this tractor back to new.
Edit: The small Champion spark plug is for a Briggs and Stratton 2 HP engine from an edger or a mower. And I made the above comment before the video was over, now I’ve seen the end and you’ve basically confirmed my thoughts. Better get to searching for another one!
I must say that this honest and dignified original survivor W-4 is much more appealing to me than the painted over first one.
Also, a 1948 build year does evoke images of postwar America still recovering from WWII, so this tractor is a representative of a time when such a machine represented a significant investment for a small farm (and by the looks of it the place where you hauled it from somehow looked like it was somewhat frozen in that same time, too), while in 1953 things had reached a 'new normal', and buying a tractor was nothing to write home about any longer I guess.
Thus I would definitely be tempted to try to keep the older model alive and as close to its 'survivor' state as possible if I were in your shoes - which I am not, of course.
Of course it would even be better if both tractors could be saved as working units - but let's not get to far ahead of ourselves here ... ;-)
Toby:
It’s great to see you getting around and getting so much done as the eye heals.
I think that the deadbolt bracket is actually an axle bracket from a wheelbarrow and you’re right that it’s fun to guess what the junk is in the toolbox and how it got there.
Thanks for posting the walk around! Also for the shoutout!
Spotted the tool box and was gutted that you didn't check it out but i guess the tractor has to come first, thanks for relieving my curiosity, headlights look great in that position gives tractor a face
@@squatch253 hey up mate sorry if I didn't write well, I said "thanks for relieving my curiosity" meaning the tool box with its chainsaw spark plug and other finds. Jon
Great vid, that patina is 👌, she's a keeper original once ,and definitely in good hands thanks for sharing 👍💨💨
It's funny when I watch ur videos the weather is usually the same as here in nova scotia 🇨🇦..u guys get lil snow ..we get a lil snow....u guys have hurricane type weather..so do we...jus thought I'd add that..haha
Snow here this morning too. Little spark plug out of a small engine Briggs I’m guessing. Or maybe a chainsaw.
Nice old tractor. Shame to make it a parts tractor, but I understand where you’re coming from.
Have a great day 👍🏻🔥
One of em has to be , maybe. Otherwise one of them will just be yard art as soon as a base can be made after the rock crusher gets up & running 🤣😂
Rebuild! Rebuild!! Rebuild!!!
Patina on that w4 is pritty darn nice, definitely worth the effort, looking forward to seeing how she works out👍
Interesting walk around. Weird what one finds in tool boxes.
The more you show this old machine the more I think it needs to be saved. I’d really like to see a mechanical restoration on this machine
W4 and W6 were rare machines in the Kansas Wheat belt but an occasionally one model or the other would end up on the trade-in lot. We had a W9 and a 1952 WDR9. The both looked about the same paint wise as your W4 after just 3 years in the Dust Bowl conditions of SW Kansas. They faded fast and it was common on repaint to Use IHC cream white on radiator grill to give them the "Hereford" look.
Nice walk around.
Thanks Squatch
Hey Toby. I see this one getting a Squatch build,,lol. Nice find,,already got a tank! How did the eye appointment go?
Yes, Parts are hard to find for those, however, Please don't write it off as a parts tractor, you may find that with a little searching while you are down for a while, or with a little repairing that you can easily have a W4 and a Super W4
Toolbox tour was a nice touch! Can't wait to see where this one goes!
Yes a rebuild of this W4 would be awesome I can see a 5j rebuild on this
Yes he has front bumper fabrication down pat 👍😂 ✌️
Boy I hope you can save them both, that thing is sweet
The spring on the clutch pedal stops the thrust bearing from rattling, just a noise "upgrade"
Very cool! Like seeing old tractors saved. I like the thought of every one saved has a purpose. Cool
high headlights mirrors the look of the Iron Mistress.
I also watch another UA-cam channel, "Adventures Made from Scratch". Silas and his dad own salvage yards in Kansas. They do a lot of farm clean-ups, I mean a lot with a multitude of old tractors. He has many old tractors in "his" yard. Might be a good source for finding an old W-4. Recently, he bought an old Case (not sure of the model) but it has the lower rear fenders similar to the W-4. Please, take a look at his videos.
Hey Toby I'm with you on maybe fixing the w-4 and leave it in its work clothes because it would look great.
As honest as a little tractor from that era can be. Cute as a button too. :)
The on-off light switch is the silent modern version to add to the aesthetics - no annoying click sound when you kill the magneto!
I'm kinda thinking that's a saver not a donor.....Your tractor Toby, what ever you do with it, I'm good with it....
Like I said, you're talking yourself into making this your next project tractor.
hey I worked as a locomotive engineer for bnsf out of galesburg Illinois for 27 years also worked out of Minneapolis
I was Superior WI 28th St Terminal, Conductor 👍
There is a dent in the left side fender that is in line with the big dent in gas tank.AL B.
My guess is that clutch block & spring was added so someone's kid could run the tractor and pull the wagon while dad walked along side fixing fence.
I hope your eye is healing well. If you’re looking for Contant, while you’re on the mend, you could go through your future projects. You can go through your past projects. Thank you for your Contant. I enjoy your videos .
I'd like to see it restored
You need to try to do a "will it start" with this one. Hope your eye is getting better.
Shared video to a couple of IH groups here in the uk 🇬🇧 hopefully it will generate some more subs
Nice tractor , we have one here in Australia in roughly the same condition and is a runner.
Well you did it again you went and got a tractor everyone is gonna want to see you restore. Please do. And yea I couldn’t stop watching your videos. Why you have to be so interesting?
Seems that the extra battery terminal was used to hot wire the starter motor, would be in close reach...
😉
Nice complete machine, either as a parts donor or a restauration on it's own...
👍👍👍
The lights caught my attention in that orientation too. Pretty cool! Seems too good for a parts tractor it seems. But I sadly understand the issue getting parts.
Those porcelain/ceramic fence insulators were super common, at least in Eastern Canada. I have a bunch of them from electric fencing from the early 80’s
I was hoping you would do a first start!!!!! Can’t wait to see it. You should do a livestream on it!!! Thanks!!
I kinda dig the raised lights. Has that novelty 'frog eye' vibe or a more retro early automotive feel of the raised individual light pods that wrre all the thing for many cars in the teens, twrnties, and thirties. If there was brackets or remnants of brackets I'd think the raised lights would have been for snow plow reasons or could have just been a style thing from a previous owner that subsequent ones never changed.
That aside, she looks rough but not so rough that it's beyond getting back into shape. Barring some serious internal gearbox, differential or engine issues. I'm not sure that it's ready to be a parts machine. But i say that without watching the entire video, i only made it to 6:09 before I commented.
Now that I'm at the end, i hear you on some machines just have to become parts for a better unit. It's just facts. More so as things get older and more out of production, troves of NOS bits get found and thrown out decades before anyone thinks that those old tractor bits could be worth something.
Whichever you decide on getting two running or having a basically new drivetrain in old metal look. I'd really like to see that the raised headlight look be carried on to the runner unit. Keep a bit of that history likeness there, amd maybe source a hook for the front end of the runner. It's odd how useful things like that are but don't get thought of until needed.
I can speculate on the hook on the front of the W-4. Might uave gotten stuck and instead of wrapping a chain around the front axel. The hook was pinned there to use to pull the tractor forward out of the stuck. Or, similar using the tractor to pull backward on a stuck item. Since it's fairly common to veiw the V tread of a tire like those as having more bite turning backwards than forwards.
It's kinda the same principle of having a cable slung along the underside of a tractor that's connected to the drawbar and through a clevis on the front. So if the tractor bogs the cable can be attached to at the front so when it's pulled. It's not pulling on the engine or front axel, the load is being transferred to the drawbar. Set-up like that is common for areas south of me for the large heavy quad track and wheel units pulling scraper pans that run into soft ground and sink. Loggers also did that with some skidders in swampy areas.
Have you any history on this tractor? Looks like that’s a vacuum valve on the manifold the same as what is used for on the old dairy farms. Looks like it possibly spent some of its life on a dairy farm. This tractor would be a awesome survivor tractor
parts tractor......yeah right. I can guarantee you will be parts hunting at le sueur in the spring for both the super and this one.
That is what I would vote for but... it aint my money or time... They sure aren't making anymore of them
Hope the eye check goes good today pal!
the tool box never fails to make me laugh I found some interesting thing in my 1940 5j d2 I I went over that in one of my videos
I will wager this W4 was used building and mataining fence. The hook on the front was used to stretch wire, that little spark plug came from a chain saw, . Those bolts were for hinges and gate latches. He used it to drag a road going material trailer in the fields explaining the ball hitch. The dent is the result of cutting trees off the fence line . Pto used to power a post hole auger. Paper pulley could have powered a portable saw mill . What do you think?
agree
That CJ7Y is a chainsaw sparkplug.
Nice tractor. I have the same year tractor but it is a I4 industrial tractor. Your statement at the end of the video about having a part tractor for the part to fix mine may have answered my question. I have been trying to locate a seat assembly from the transmission mounting plate to the seat. Arm bracket bolt spring whole assembly. No luck finding so far.
Hey love the new video series Squatch. I would love to see you get this tractor running first. You should then put it side by side with the first w4 you got and go over each good and bad point with us that the tractors make for themselves and maybe then your audience could convince you of which one is the best option or you could yourself. Whatever comes of it I can't wait to see a new restoration about to happen.
My 51 W-4 needed starter rebuild and i had to remove belt pulley drive to allow enough room to remove it. Then you must make sure long bolt in housing (beneath fuel tank) is in place before you put back on or you can't get it back in hole. Mine is a little brat, it'll do 16mph down the road and is real fun and maneuverable at plow day pulling a two bottom 14" JD plow on steel. The kids love to sit on the fenders too. I'm kinda wondering about the lights on yours? Mine are top mounted as well with a three bolt triangular flange with a 3/8 or 1/2" close nipple for the light mount. Happy Tractoring! "Squatch", I watch and like all your vids. Rock On!!!
Speaking of paper pulley, did you ever get back the one you sent out for the swamp angel and I somehow missed it?
@squatch253 I go to church with two brothers that are mail carriers and they told me that they can't hire enough people who will work. that job is very physically demanding and most people are not fit enough to do the work. he said they hired 7 people and at the end of the week they had 2 or 3 left. they both said they worked 12 hours and 6 days a week.
Definitely way to nice to be a parts tractor
The stubby spark plug is for a small engine that is like on a lawnmower.
I wonder if the clutch pedal wooden block and spring was to assist a disabled/ injured farmer drive his W4.👍🏴
Would the clutch spring be to avoid rusting the clutch plate to the fly wheel during outdoor storage?
Our old ford 2N toolbox at least had the 1 size fits all nuts wrench of the N series, but also a hammer, and flat head screw drivers to help insert the drawbar pins.
Old spark plugs seem useless, unlike a porcelain fence insulator.
Good times galor.
Thanks for the senic road trip.
Block and spring makes me think there was probably a youngster behind the wheel..
This will be interesting to see which one becomes the parts tractor.
Nice W 4, off subject have you ever seen a tractor with a Coffman starting system?
Maybe at a show?
It looks like you might have a tough decision to make. I look forward to seeing you go through the process of which tractor to make the part’s tractor or maybe you will decide to restore both. Great video Toby
I think CJ7Y spark plugs fit you lawn mower. I have some in the garage.
If my remember correct there was also an 04 in which was specially built for gulf courses
For what it is it looks like a fairly solid tractor and I'm thinking she's going to run just fine didn't see any bronze puddles on the underside anyplace and nothing straining to get out of the insides be sure to check the antifreeze in it up there don't want any avoidable problems. Will keep tuned Squatch with exception of that jamb in the fuel tank it's not a bad looking tractor overall.
I think I’d fix this one before the other one if it runs! I like the old ugly ones myself!
I am glad I watched this video. Some one was trying to convince me to send my W-4 to the scrap heap. Know anyone in the MB/ND area that is looking for one? I am thinking MB would be to far for you to come if you were interested. I am still not sure I want to let it go, but interested in finding out what kind of interest there is in it. What is the standard tire size of the rear wheels? 13-26?
I’ve got 14.9-26 tires on both of mine, both on 13” rims 👍
Wow , first snow already ???
Good choice big wire keeps the cranking speed up and the current draw at a low level. I like a minimum of 1/0 wire on a 6 volt system. I had to go to 1/0 as I was already using #1 wire on 12 volts.🤷♂😉
Two-headed battery cable for two batteries in parallel?
I'd like to see you keep both, a lot of W4s got sold here in New Zealand they aren't rare at all but I've never seen a super W4.