another project to get done

Found another 9 series tractor to add to the stable. Dad has added a 1952 wd9 to the fleet got it running yesterday got to get some new fuel filters and flush out the gas and fuel tanks and some tinkering to get it running good radiator leaks going to take it to radiator shop this week all tin work is straight and rust free just needs some light sand blasting to get the layers of paint off it still got the53 SWD9 sitting behind it not been touched in a few years that was supposed to be this past winters project but got put on the back burner due to my mom getting ill and a JD being apart in the shop all winter

Where do you live that you find 9's so easily? I would love to have a WD-9. My B would be gone in a heartbeat if I could find a 9 for reasonable.

BTW, scrap that JD and you will have more money and room for the 9s. :lol:

In ND, southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a 9 series tractor. i've got 7. Two 650s, two SWD9s, two regular WD9s and a WDR9. Around here it's the row crop tractors that aren't as common.
Here's my good 650 and the 9 i'm almost ready to paint.

Dave is from central Massachusetts, about 40 miles from me.

There aren't really many 9 series around here. Many of the agricultural 9's have come from the prairie states and Canada. I suspect the rest of the 9's were used in road building or other industrial applications.

New England, since the 1830's when the midwest was developed, has been primarily diary and orchards with a few local specialties like potatoes, asparagus, cranberries, shade grown tobacco, maple products, and some truck farming for local markets. Sheep grazing was huge in the 1700's due to the rocky and hilly terrain. Row cropping was done in the valleys.

There were not any 9 series or big tractors around here back years ago all it seems to be were maybe farmall narrow fronts or Narrow front JD's and hundreds of 9n's so that is why my father and I like the bigger tractors they are rarer to see in this area we have a 45 I9 now 52 WD9 and a53 SWD9 and a 57 JD820 narrow front and small tractors is all you used to see at gas engine shows now the last few years a few more bigger tractors are showing up and it's nice to see them eventually we would like to find a 4 or 5 bottom plow or 2 to go to plow days. Wardner is the guy I would go to if I have any 9 series questions for me because I think he has forgotten more IH knowlege than I will ever know and to see some of his custom fasthitches and front fasthitches in person is something and the fact that he can seem to create and fabricate up most thing we only dream of for tractors out of what he has in his back yard is amazing. Does anyone know where I can still get the fuel filters for the wd9 and swd9 and maybe a carb rebuild kit or at least gasket set and thermostat this one had a mouse nest in it and was stuck havn't checked IH parts yet figured there was more knowlege here

I know when I had to rebuild my MD carb 8 years ago there was no such thing as a kit. You couldn't really get any gaskets and I am not sure about the needle and seat. I see them in OEM now, but they are outrageous. (At least the needle and seat $100 IIRC) You may be able to get them somewhere else.
If you WD-9 is the same filter setup as my MD you can get them at Case. You can't get the old stype filter that you retain the plates from etc (to my knowledge)

I forgot, if anybody wants to trade I can haul a couple Ms/SMs out to ND and take home some 9s.