Building a unstyled "JD A" Deadweight Pulling Tractor

[NewGuy15]

Hello all! New here, so please give me a break! lol. My grandpa was always into pulling and my dad was for a little while but I would like to bring him back into it. I do not know a whole lot about the John Deere A's myself. I do know that we have an unstyled 1936 and 1938 John Deere A and I would love to turn one of them into a deadweight dirt track puller. I am not sure if these years of unstyled A's are known for being decent pullers (oem gearing, stroke, piston size, etc) so I decided to reach out to you guys for any words of wisdom. I was always told that the later year styled A's were the way to go now a days. Please let me know your thoughts, thank you in advance!

 

[VicS]

Hello all! New here, so please give me a break! lol. My grandpa was always into pulling and my dad was for a little while but I would like to bring him back into it. I do not know a whole lot about the John Deere A's myself. I do know that we have an unstyled 1936 and 1938 John Deere A and I would love to turn one of them into a deadweight dirt track puller. I am not sure if these years of unstyled A's are known for being decent pullers (oem gearing, stroke, piston size, etc) so I decided to reach out to you guys for any words of wisdom. I was always told that the later year styled A's were the way to go now a days. Please let me know your thoughts, thank you in advance!

Just go to the pulls and talk to the winners. You can make most any tractor into a good puller just takes $.

 

[NewGuy15]

Just go to the pulls and talk to the winners. You can make most any tractor into a good puller just takes $.

Yep! Thank you. I guess the late Model A's are the way to go as they have the creeper gear. I am now hunting a single stick John Deere A