Allis Chalmers Tractor with LOCKED UP engine! Will it RUN AND DRIVE 50 Miles home?

As an Allis Chalmers owner, this makes extremely happy. Last year I drove my 48' WD to the Fair in the County over. 16 miles there, won 2nd in my class pulling, then drove 16 miles home. Almost 5 hours of putting along. It rained on the way home lol. I had all the fun that day.

I'm 65 years old, can't tell you how many "builds" and "re-builds" I helped my dad and uncles do in the tobacco barn using the exact methods you used here. If you lost or broke a part, you found it on something else and put it to use. Thanks for the memories!

My grandad gave his heart and soul to Allis Chalmers for over 20 years and retired in the mid 1970's. You can thank him for that tractor.

Start pedal?

Derek is the man. I had the epiphany during this episode that Derek is essentially the automotive version of Bob Ross, but even better 😅🤘🏻😂🤣

Hey guy who donated the tractor! Thanks for supplying our entertainment and thanks for saving your tractor from the certain death! Wish more people would save their classic gear before it was to late

I love that little Allis, with the split front end. We had two Alliss Chalmers Tractors we farmed with, they were work Horses. A WD and a WC one you had to crank to start. The one you had to crank belonged to my Grandpa.

Gosh I remember back 40+ years ago my grandad had some them Allis tractors on the farm when it was working farm back in the 70’s and 80’s they were 1930’s and 40’s units. Front crank start. They were old beasts then but he had an old timer to work on them back then. Not too many ppl work on them nowadays outside hobby projects.

Personally this was one of the best videos in a long time. Old junk stands the testimonials of time. A feller just do what he knows best. No expensive engine swap, no new fuel making happener, no electrodigicals. Bare bones fuel air spark compression. Thanks Derek, I hope your family has a wonderful Christmas

This is got to be the cleanest tractor I’ve ever seen anybody get for free

Really like the way u make these old tractors live again with what u have laying around and and the mind of a great mechanic. Without spending $3000 to make a $1500 machine work again. Ive been doing the same kind of stuff my whole lìfe. Ive been a certified marine tech for 29 years. Have my own shop over here in central Arkansas for almost 20 years. Its great to see videos of real guys making junk run again. Just to see if they can. Keep em coming!

That alternator addition and resistor at the coil looks like it was converted to 12 volts at sometime in the past. We did our WD45 in this manner and the original starter will spin it over much faster. Those old starters didn't seem to mind the extra juice, as long as you didn't crank them for a very long time. I am an old retired tradesman that was raised on a medium sized Midwest farm. Got my mechanic knowledge for 4 cyl on an AC model c. Rebuilt the engine myself when I was 12 or so.

These last 2 videos have shown how much of a mechanical genius Derek really is I wish I had half the knowledge this man has upstairs

First motorized vehicle I ever drove was a D-14. I was 9 and felt like the king of the world. On a related note, did you know that the only reason Chevy and Dodge didn't follow Ford into the tractor business was because they understood that farmers had more important things to do with their time than to be working on their tractors every day. True story. Sweet little B Derek. Can't wait to see what you do with it.

YES!! The youngster is rocking the mullet. Business in front, party in the rear!

Never a doubt 🧐 that you would get it running 💨

Man, it sure did bring a smile to my face seeing you do this one! First big engine project I ever did was with my Dad and my little brother on an Allis Chalmers B. I was 12 years old, my brother was 10, and the tractor had been my great grandfather’s…It had been parked for 35 years because of a broken oil pickup tube and spun rod bearings. It had the Quonset hut it was parked in fall in on it in the meantime. We were in 4-H and looking for a bigger project than lawnmower engines, so went down the the farm and drug it outta the collapsed shed, hauled it on home in pieces and started the rebuild. Found out the oil pickup tube in these are pot metal, so we ended up making a new one with some black pipe and a hydraulic filter we found at fleet farm. The engine was stuck tight, so we soaked it for months too. Had the crank turned and started putting it back together. Ours was a 1939 flavor, and was crank only with a magneto. Got it all back together a few weeks before the fair (because we took it to the fair as a 4-H project) and I’ll never forget the day we got it running. It was a Sunday, tractor dealer was closed, and the carb gasket was shot, and I mean SHOT. Cranked on it for hours and hours. My dad called us in for supper, so we let it alone and went on in and ate. After dinner, it was still light out, being mid June, I said, “I’m gonna go give it one more shot.” My pop told me there was no way it was gonna go, we’d just have to wait until the dealer opened to get a gasket ordered. Well, being 12 and all, I decided to go give it one more try. Damned thing fired up on the first half crank! I’ll never forget the look on my dad’s face when he and my mom and brother came running out of the house and into the garage. My dad was 35 at the time and had never heard that thing run. We got her painted up, new seat and new decals and took it to the fair in July. The judges didn’t know what to do with us, they were blown away, but no one had ever done something like this, so they gave us one of those big green and gold “over the top” ribbons. We took my grandfather’s Farmall F12 the next year, and now if you look in the 4-H catalog, antique tractor restoration is a category :) I’ve gone on the have a custom car shop in Wisconsin and my brother was a PR man for Hemmings Motor News for a while…and it all started with an Allis Chalmers B 😊 Thank you for all the videos Derek, I really enjoy watching your channels, and this video especially brought all the fond memories flooding back up like that Marvel Mystery Oil shootin outta those cylinders. Keep up the good work and I hope to meet you some day and say thanks - Koop

Best episode of the year!! Felt like old VGG times again, no crazy expensive parts, no special tools and Fabrication...just a guy and his littlest human he's responsible for and an old Tractor.👍🙏

Great to see "Little man" standing there watching and LEARNING from Big Feller.

This is by far one of your best resurrections and too bad there isn't a spot inside your barn for it to stay out of the weather. Great job on this old tractor