I have two Cletrac crawlers I am attempting to rejuvinate origional. One is a BDH and a HG, so I was told. I need help on the HG which has a 1XK3: 4 cyl. Herculese gas engine serial #2902055A. This is on the engine plate. I Can't find any other info. or plates. Can anyone tell me anything? year, model or whatever? It weighs slighly over 3000lbs with no attachments. It has a bench type seat. Thanks
John
If the engine is the original it is a model HG crawler. It was also built before February of 1950. There was a problem with those loosing the serial numbere tags, plus depending on age or width they were in two locations. Where are you located? If you give more details perhaps we can pin it down a little closer. If you find that the first coat of paint is the Cletrac orange it would also narrow it down a little more.
Thanks John. I cleaned the fuel tank to the bare metal. The base coat is a brown primer and the next color is green, followed by several other shades of yellow and finally a orangish peach color. The ID motor tags are on the motor, right side of the block, just above the oil pan. Other places I have cleaned under washers there is orange paint? Was green a Oliver color and orange a Cletrac? When did Oliver take over green on the colors? Where else might the serial number be of the chassie or bell housing? This tractor is 12 volt. Do you think it has it been changed sometime in the past from 6 volt? Thank-you.
John J
Wll the colors was changed in either 1946 or 47 from Cletrac Orange to Oliver green and the Oliver green is similar to the older Oliver green wheel tractor paint colors. The wheel tractors were made a little lighter about a year before that. At that time the serial number tag was on the right frame rail toward the rear. Is your crawler a narrow or wide gauge model. On the model B in case you have not looked the serial number will be on the firewall on the engine side toward the top on the right side.
If the only green basecoat is on the gas tank, perhaps someone bought a new gas tank later on and painted it orange to match the tractor?
Merry Christmas!
Blake
Thanks John. It appears to have orange paint down deep under many years of other colors. I am in Oregon and few dealers ever existed here I think. What other things have changed over the years to check for new style or old style? The transmition shift pattern is cast into the transmition case to the left of the shifter. Any and all help is appreciated. I changed oil and it is running 5lbs after warm up. Isn't that a bit low? Thanks John