1973 110 john deer puller

this is the one that I posted that my wife had fount and got for me so far I just order parts for this build it will be built as a garden puller


my round fenders came in today

Full blown puller build?

Looks pretty awesome with the older fenders mounted up!

Really looking forward to seeing this build, I've been thinking about building a B-110 puller myself lately. What all do you have planned for it?

Looks sweet! What all are you planning on pulling with it? You may want to delete the vari drive, when I'm pulling super heavy loads with mine (like 2-3 tons) it'll start slipping.

Double W Cross Ranch wrote:

when I'm pulling super heavy loads with mine (like 2-3 tons) it'll start slipping.

What are you trying pull around that weighs 6000lbs??

A 2wd Ford F350 that's stuck in the mud.

Hmm, sounds like interesting operation... Not something I would make a regular practice out of, haha.


Are there any engine plans set in stone for this one? I know you mentioned a diesel in your other thread, I didn't know wether that was a for-sure thing.

Y'know if that ol' Kohler is nice and healthy, it'd make a darn good pulling engine. If not, a good ol' K341 with a custom head could take it's place.

The plans at this moment is get the kohler 10hp runing. I tryed to fire it up yesterday the motor but no luck. But it has such good compression it's not funny but at the moment the points was not working so I ended up ordering a electronic ign for it.

I still plan on going with a 10hp diesel but will probably be after the first of the year

I'm looking at building a 3 point hitch for it

Add some rear ag tires

Fresh paint/dress up a little

Will be a puller but the fancy stuff won't come till part two of this build

But for now my kids will pull stock class with it

Well, the later year 110s, especially the ones with the super overcomplicated blade engagement and the starter, they have a magnet and coil inside the flywheel. The coil commonly goes bad, and the OEM ones are super expensive (like $120), but you can buy Tecumseh ones that are much cheaper (I think I paid $24 for mine) and they work just fine if you use a shim. But you're in for a bad time getting to the coil, having to tear the front of the engine off and then pull the flywheel off, and you also have to unwrap the stator to pull the coil off, meaning you'll have to rewrap it in order to have a charging system again. It'd probably be less work to just convert it to a 12v ignition.

It is set up for 12v and has a coil sitting up front

Yeah the mag coil under the flywheel was a less common thing only seen on some of the 8hp tractors. All the 10hp ones will use the conventional 12v automotive type ignition system, my 71' does and the later one we used to have also did.

Hmm, that's strange.  How does it charge?  The manuals say that all 110s after 1970 were under the flywheel coil ignition.

Well they would've just had a standard charging stator under the flywheel.

Nice 110!

me and the kids started cleaning it up a little

Frame looks cherry!

Well started on the top plate still have some triming to do but it's a start

Well I got few mins more today to cut out and make the belt cover in the top plate

Got little time today to re shape a old tractor spring I had took out almost 6 inches

That green looks awesomely toxic!!

Dang man, you're actually making me rethink my 110.  Like, a lot.  Haha

Well not much updates been working aloft
But I did install new belts after I got the rite ones they was not bad I ended up with a 67 rear and 40 front drive belts I adjusted the var drive

I also swap the Kohler motor out for a hh100 tecumseh motor I had because I hate points

Order some 26x12x12 ag tires for the rear

I'll post pic up next time I work on this truly thanking about building it into a trike

But it will be getting a hidraulic 3 point class 1 hitch so I can use my grade blade on it

From what I've heard about the solid state modules in those Teccy's, you'd be better off with breaker ignition, hahaha.

Nah it should be alright really, I think the only real issues were when you accidentally hook 'em up wrong. Then you got problems.

Well I went back to the kohler after I seen how much a carb is for the tecumseh i had a new carb but the factory gov wouldn't work with it so I slap the old kohler back on

Now I have a few wire ?

The two ac wires on voltage regular go to the charging system behind flywheel the b side of the voltage regular goes to 12v pos rite along with coil wire

Does anyone have a key cylinder pin out so I know what goes were because factory harness is shot