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John Deere A - What's It Worth?

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Bryce Frazier

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Hi all! I have decided that I am going to try to sell my John Deere A to help pay some bills. I am not all that sure what it is worth, so here is everything I know!

JD A 493376

It is an early 1940, and it still has the 4 speed transmission.

Sheet metal and cosmetics are 8/10 (other than paint)

Clutch pack seems to be in good working order

It has very little compression, but we are thinking that it is a stuck valve.

The sediment bowl and fuel lines are missing

It has 11 x 38 stamped steel rear wheels

It will have to have a full set of tires...

I can try to get a picture of it, but I don't have one at this point! Where is a good place to start? I was thinking about asking $1000 and trying to get $6-700?
 
In my area, you won't get $1,000 but would likely get that $600-$700 pretty easily. Just very little margin of money on those tractors.
 
I'd spend a little time to get it running and then you can sell it better and for a little more.
These old Deere's will usually run if not stuck.
A stuck valve can be freed up with some time and some penetrant oil and tap on the valve to work it in and work the valve back and forth by tapping it down and a pry bar to bring it back up.
 
Ya, thats what I was thinking... I am going to pop that valve cover off, and just see what I can see.... It turns over really nice, but if just feels like it is free rolling, and I can barely distinguish the difference between a compression stroke and an exhaust stroke??

I think that it has to be a stuck valve, but who knows!

I have a spare sediment bowl, and I can make a fuel line for it to at least make the big tank work.. If I can do that, and dink around with the carb a little bit, I think I could probably get it started!

Oh, and here is a picture mom took that I had forgotten about...

Left to right: 1950 G, 1945 GM, 1935 B, and the 1940 A on the end, don't look to bad from that far away huh?? :)

Oh! You guys might also like to know that I have a completely rebuilt head for my 35 B coming home Thursday! Should be able to put it on, put everything back together, and be set to go!

We ended up buying a complete engine/tractor gasket set, 4 push rod tubes from H and J Machining (AWESOME guy!) and a carb kit, as this on was pretty well wasted....

Thanks Guys! Bryce
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Hmmm, thats interesting... Where abouts do you live? Or where did that tractor come from for that matter! I am in North ID, but the tractor came from Eastern WA... Want another one? :) Bryce
 
I'm in eastern ND, my grandpa's uncle who lived and farmed in NW Minnesota bought it new and it has been in the family from day one. My grandpa ran it a lot in his younger days and said it never spent a night outside always parked in the "tractor shed" at his uncles. The farthest field was 3 miles away and it still came home every night. My dad broke that streak about 10 years ago when he couldn't get it started so he and my grandpa pulled it around for awhile and gave up on it until I got to the farm the next day. Needless to say I wasn't happy that a streak (though not a big deal to many) had gone for decades was broken!

If I were closer I'd maybe be interested but I bought another tractor last weekend that I haven't told my wife about so I better pass this time

Still in work clothes and will stay that way as long as I'm alive, there's no possible way to recreate that character/patina.
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Looks identical to mine, except for the rear wheels.. Mine is a hand start too! Looks like a great machine!! LOVE the history on it!

I like to say that mine, the good running/driving ones at least, always get put away for the night... I hate seeing equipment left outside... If I could afford it, I would have a big enough shed to put all of my stuff in!
 
What is the SN of your GM? I also have a 1945 GM that was sold new off the John Deere Experimental farm at Moline Ill., according to Deere's records.
 
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