Too much weight?

[Dustyah]

I have a 1953 dc3 eagle hitch. Foot clutch, live pto, I have two sets of factory weights, and loaded rear tires, new rubber and tubes, should tip the scales at over 7k if I'm correct, is this too much for this old girl?

 

[Dustyah]

forgot to add tires are 13.6-38 bkt, 10 ply I think, so,like 1200 lbs or so in calcium plus 600 in wheel weights, plus weight of tractor, heavy????

 

[jon f mn]

Sounds about how most were set up for farming when they were the big tractor on the farm. Bout the only
thing different from ours on the farm is we had 12.4/38 tires til I got it. If your going to use it you
need the weight.

 

[Don Rudolph]

Your late model DC will have the 5505 head and at least 4" aluminum pistons, so it should be able to use all that weight for traction. A late model DC is a different animal than the early version. Don

 

[casecollectorsc]

Most times you see DCs in the 55-6500# weight class. Brutus49dc has a lot of experience pullin DCs and can answer your questions.

 

[brutus49DC]

I used to pull 5500-6500 and occasionly 7500 with mine. M&W pistons, Berry cam, U MM carb. Anymore it doesn't have enough power as the sled has had to get more and more aggressive to stop the tractors. Sled's and tracks vary with different areas. Just make sure your chains are in good condition and adjusted.

 

[Dustyah]

Well glad to meet you sir, I'm sure you know much more about these old cases than I, two questions, how do you get a DC down to 5500 lbs, and how do I go about checking/ adjusting my chains, I'm a professional tech at a ford dealer so I'm quite compitant just un wise to these old girls

 

[Don Rudolph]

Sorry, didn't realize you were asking for tractor pulling purposes. We run a DC in Pure Stock, 1st gear only, @ 6250 and are very competitive. Any other classes become all about HP.Don

 

[casecollectorsc]

Any DC without fluid or weights will weigh below 5500#.

 

[brutus49DC]

My 40DC with round spoke front wheels and cut off rears with 15.5x38 tires weighs about 4100 with driver. It's bored to 4 3/8 with an lp head and has 10.5:1 compression. This is for our "stock" class and there are several tractors we pull against that have more power. My 49DC with an adjustable wf and 15.5's on cast wheels would make 5000 but you couldn't keep the front end down. About all you can do outside of taking the trans top off to check the chains is to jack it up with the brake locked and rock the wheel one side at a time to get an idea how loose they are, the guys that broke chains were usually plowing alfalfa with lots of additional weight which also took all of the slack out of the chain making it possible to double it up and break the bottom of the diff. housing, for plowing jd called for 2000 lbs. per bottom