Allis Chalmers

Allis-Chalmers ag equipment was bought back in the 80's by Deutz, and were called Deutz-Allis for a number of years. Agco bought them in the 90's, renamed them Agco-Allis. Later on they just dropped the Allis, now are Agco. Parts should be available in many cases from Agco dealers.

Fred
 
Allis Chalmers was a good line. Parts should be pretty easy to get yet for the most part. I wouldn't be afraid to buy one at all.


murph
 
My Brother just bought this one last year and I had the pleasure of digging a 400' drain field with it last September in a word (Impressive in every respect comes to mind)!! It is a MF badged by Agco which also is doing the same for Allis, now under the same umbrella AGCO as well as several others,,,

I really don't thing you can go wrong with any of the AGCO offerings.

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If you are talking about an older model there is lots of new and used parts. I talked to a dealer in Il. he told me that all parts were avaible.
 
Back in 1981, we overhauled our 1958 D14 Allis-Chalmers in our shop. It was overhauled by a dealer in '66 also. We removed the crank and camshaft and sent them out for machine work and exrays on the crank. The crank had a fracture and the cam was down to soft steel, so we went to our dealer for parts. The first thing the parts manager said was "sit down before I quote you your prices"! $2000.62 for the crank and $275 for the cam, bearings not included! Blue Book on the tractor was $2450 at the time! We eventually found a crank, ground and oversize bearings included; and a cam with new bearings, from Wenger's of Lancaster, PA. Wenger's does a large business selling used parts, and kept the old A-C off the junk pile. I sold it to the dealer's nephew in '96 and it's still going strong at the antique shows.
 
my landlord had an AC D17 - until he upgraded to a D19.
both are great workhorses and seem to require less maintenance than his IH 706.

what did you find?
 
price sounds a bit high to me for a narrow front and no loader, but if you don't need the loader, it could be worth what he's asking if it's really in as good a mechanical shape as the ad says. (at least the tires looked good from the pictures - and that's a couple hundred $$'s right there)

they're good machines and easy to work on.
 
HMK, D-17s are rated at 48HP, but most dyno out in the low 60's(ours at 61 on a gasser). Erik's right on -they are easy to work on and built like tanks. The D series also have the power director lever on the right by the brakes that gives the operator a high and low speed in all gears. The biggest drawback is the hydraulics, generally one outlet is all they have unless you have a Series IV, which could operate one 2-way cylinder. $2200 might not be bad if it's mechanically sound. Do you know how many hours are on it?
 
AC were innovators in the industry. We had a 185 diesel w/well over 10,000 hrs. We never had the valve covers off. The only problems we had were with the hydraulics & transmission. Did you know the turbines in the Hoover dam were built by Allis-Chalmers?
 
3rd gear on D-14s was notorious for going out. Ours did, too. We had a 180 that we purchased knowing it would jump out of 4th gear(it hauled manure on the road for a poultry farm-must have been speed-shifted). We had 2 WC's over 13 years, a D-14 for 38 years, D-17 for 30 years, 170 for 25 years and 180 for 16 years and put a total of approximately 33,000 hours on them over 38 years. We repaired 2 transmissions, the D-14 and 180, and did 4 overhauls( on the 170, 180 and twice on the D-14). We ran a dairy and a custom farming sideline, so none of the tractors was ever babied. They were a good value.
 
zionview said:
3rd gear on D-14s was notorious for going out. Ours did, too. We had a 180 that we purchased knowing it would jump out of 4th gear(it hauled manure on the road for a poultry farm-must have been speed-shifted). We had 2 WC's over 13 years, a D-14 for 38 years, D-17 for 30 years, 170 for 25 years and 180 for 16 years and put a total of approximately 33,000 hours on them over 38 years. We repaired 2 transmissions, the D-14 and 180, and did 4 overhauls( on the 170, 180 and twice on the D-14). We ran a dairy and a custom farming sideline, so none of the tractors was ever babied. They were a good value.
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Same here, we had a dairy & the only babying going on was with the calves. 185=no 3rd gear, 180=no 1st or 4th gear. We never fixed them. We also had a 6080, 7010, 7020, 7060 & a Gleaner F-3. Alot of orange paint.
 
That's alotta orange! We had a Gleaner EIII with a 10'3" grain head and a 2RW cornhead in the 70's. Not alot of capacity, but we stored excess grain at the local Agway and consistently had the cleanest grain samples! When we switched to narrow rows, we sold it and hired a friend with an FII with a 4-row head. I was the black sheep of the family-I bought a 1980 White 2-105 in '88. It took Dad a while to warm up to it, but he liked it. Still, if we wanted work for a little bit of fuel, we grabbed something orange. The 180 would chop 1st cutting alfalfa in 2nd gear, low range on 2-2.1 gal/hr. The White wouldn't get the mail for 2 gal/hr!!
 
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