Got my latest toy home. JD LA plus pics

I posted about a year and a half ago about working on my cousins JD LA. My cousin passed from cancer shortly after I got it running for him. I had the oppurtunity to buy it from his son. Went and picked it up today. It came with a pulley, 1 bottom plow, and a set of cultivators. It runs like a top and when I got it running for him I had the Mag and the Carb professionally rebuilt. It needs a new set of front tires and a new rear rim (or I might repair it if possible). It also needs a new head gasket and a mufler. The tin is really nice besides the lower cowl under the hood is bent to he**.

Anyone now of a good place to pick up some front tires, used rear rim, muffler, and cowl. I know the Ridenour brothers carry a lot of the LA parts and I will be giving them a call tomorrow.

And for the Michigan boys on here are there any places around here that repair rims or will break down the tire so I can attempt to repair it? The area around the valve stem is rotted out as I"m guessing the tires are loaded.
Here is a video of it running last year.


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I am not fond of black and white tractors but that will be a fun treasure for you. With a little time bumping that front tin could look like new. It really is not bent all that bad.

A fun tractor ME miller tire for your tires and possibly the rim. There is a lot of parts on ebay from time to time. Try to fix the "chin" under grill part they are quite exspencive. Implements show up for them quite often to. Also i have a couple of other places you can get parts ( Battery box cover etc) Email me if need be.

To save that rim with the rusted stem hole - break it down and clean and inspect the rim real well. If only the area around the hole is bad, grind it out and weld a full patch on it from the tube side. Grind the weld and fill the other side with bondo, sand smooth. Find another spot on the rim and drill a new stem hole and deburr.

Have two rims run that way for 20 years now.

Nice little project have fun making it shine.I wished I could find a LA for my collection.Sorry to hear about cousin take care of that little tractor.BlaineF

Don't know where you are in Michigan, but Stamm Equipment may be able to help you. They are located in Wayland,Micigan right off 131. Phone # 1-269-792-6204. Open Mon.-Fri. Closed Sat.

that's a beauty

Some years back I had a LA with two rusted out rims. They weren't so bad that I couldn't have patched them but here is what I did.

Went to a salvage yard and picked up a pair of steel center rims off of New Idea corn pickers. Cut that steel disk out, and grind smooth. Then from the tire side grind out the rivets of the rotted out JD rims. Drive the rivets out of at least one of the JD brackets. Use this as a guide to drill the holes in your 'new' rims. Bolting them into the wheel center weld them through the holes that you drilled in the rim. Just keep working your way around till done. You will have rims with the correct ears and only the most thorough of the correct police will be able to tell when you get paint on it.

Looks like it was made for that spot .

Don't know ware in Michigan you are but in Mt Clemens go see Tim Leslie at Leslie tire he brakes them down.

Tim can almost get anything so ask him about the rim. There is also a place up in the thumb that does custom rims for us pullers that could repair that one.

I had a guy approch me a few years back about a 54 cub that had been in a barn for 26 years ! Ya "OK" a barn find ... Well i went and looked and wow it had been there that long and in great shape. Orignal seat, tires , decals and all the things that went with it .

Well it cost me $2500.00 but it is cherry.


I have always wanted a L.A just to add some more color to my collection of tractors and i think there neat looking.

Glad you got it , sorry for the loss..

Jim