John Deere A governor

[Tim14167]

I have a 1951 John Deere A, I would like to put live hydrulics on it. The easy thing to do is to find a pump that goes between the governor and the distributor, but I just dont want to do that quit yet. Can you take a governor and hydrualic pump from an early John Deere 60 and bolt it on to my 1951 A? I would rather do this and make lines to go to the power-trol. I have also thought about getting a pump from Northern Hydrualic and mounting it on the front and have it come off of the fan shaft. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[BushogPapa]

I don't think running a hyd pump from the front would be advised. It would greatly increase the load on the bevel gears in the governor.

Ask for more info on the idea of changing the Governor..sounds like a plan..

Ron.

 

[Paul from MI]

New set of governor bevel gears will run $700 or more from Deere, and I have replaced them on several of my 2 cylinders. I wouldn't do any thing that would put more load on them. John Deere did make a pump that was mounted between the governor and magneto or distributor, thus not increasing load on the bevel gears. They are not hard to find, so I'd look that way first. There were John Deere conversion kits that allowed the pump to be added for live hydraulics.

 

[Todd Young]

I have a JD A with the hydraulic pump between the governor and distributor. It works very well!

 

[Anonymous-0]

There has been a John Deere A with a hydraulic pump mounted on the gov. housing on Minneapolis Craigslist. Looks like it came off a 60. I think it will work..

 

[Pete in MD]

P/N's for the governor case, mounting gasket, drive gear, bevel gear for fanshaft, distributor gasket,and end cap gasket are the same for the A and early 60.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

The A-R had a pump on the governor. I never understood why they didn't use it on the A's.

 

[dieselfume]

My 51 MC tractor has a belt driven hyd pump. maybe something like that would work?

 

[The Dukester]

I think the best idea is to bite the bullet and find the pump that John Deere made after market to go on the govenor. It takes a lot of hoses and fittings too because you use the original power-trol housing for the oil reservoir and system control, just blanking off the pto driven pump. This pump set-up puts no load on the expensive to replace bevel drive gears that drive the fan and generator.

 

[Leonard Dacus]

I have 1951 A that I put 60 JD. governor housing with pump replaced rocker shaft housing hyd. lines from pump to rocker shaft housing from 60 series, Original power-troll will work fine. big job but works great.