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What does it take to put a 3-pt into a 420 that doesn't have one (particularly the one shown in the "Potential 420 Restoration Ques" posting)? Is it difficult to find a unit to swap in? What about cost, compatibility, etc?

Any thoughts/info/discussion is appreciated.

Well, my brother and I tore into the 420 Friday afternoon and here's how it went. Drained the gas. Smelled like varnish and looked like off road diesel (red). Cleaned out the sediment bowl. Opened up the oil bath air filter. not a lot of oil, but an equal amount of water. Bowl is ok yet. Pulled the ...

Going to see if my brother and I can get the old crawler fired up this friday. It ran and operated fine when parked, but it has been setting for 2-3 years. We'll do the normal things like check the fluids, pop the plugs and make sure the cylinders aren't rusted up, run new gas in it, and bring a cha...

I contacted the owner about the 420. It has only been parked for 2 years and he is willing to sell it. He originally purchased it for $2,100 (not sure how long ago and I asume it worked at that time) and said to make an offer. I first have to figure out what on it works and doesn't work. Once the we...

Well, my brother can line up a hauler, I've figured out a place to work on it, and my Pa says he'll help finance some of the work. Now to talk the current owner out of it.

What a wealth of information, you guys are great. From here I guess the next step will be to converse with the rest of my deer hunting gang/logging crew to see if they will be willing to assist with the project, contact the owner of the crawler to see if he'd be willing to part with it, and then get...

Thank you for all the good info. It isn't nearly as positive as I was hoping, but it's good to hear now before I jump in head first. The serial number on the crawler is 090357. The right steering stick moves like I think it would, but the left one will only push forward. I'm guessing that's not a go...

Here's some pics of the poor ole 420. Thanks for the picture posting info. http://216.104.73.215/jdcrawlers/pictures/images/jd_420_crawler_sp.jpg [/img] http://216.104.73.215/jdcrawlers/pictures/images/jd_420_crawler_front_sp.jpg http://216.104.73.215/jdcrawlers/pictures/images/jd_420_crawler_rv_sp....

I found a 1956 JD 420C that I am thinking about getting in operating condition and using for trail maintenance and pulp wood skidding. We currently use a 420 wheel bound tractor for pulling pulp, but I think a crawler would be a lot more useful and a whole lot more fun. I'm not too worried about the...