scored a D2

Lucky guy! $200 doesn’t much anymore. Hope to see the videos of your new score soon. JM

Congrats on the purchase! Keep us updated with the progress.

Excellent score! What a beauty and even has the track frame tins. If you fill the clutch compartment, note that there is no seal between there and the crankcase, so it may leak into it. Do you know how long it has been stuck? If it's just a matter of a small # of weeks, you might get lucky. Dry the compartment, maybe put some dessicant in there to get the residual, get a mapp torch on the clutch plate to cook it a little but not too much to see if it frees up (sorry, so used to going straight to solutioning! You already know all this : )

Thats a nice tractor, especially for $200. Check out Chrisco machinery website for serial number and year. Looks yours is a 1945

 A photo of my rusted master clutch. My D2 is a U series and not a J series but they are similar.  Be aware that you will have to separate the engine from the flywheel housing to repair your clutch.
 [attachment=62704]D2 Main Clutch.jpg[/attachment]

The throwout bearing is just two chunks of bronze bolted together, so the guy should have just unbolted them to free it up. Oh well, it can still be fixed. You won't regret splitting it (too much : ) because if you do the clutch plate, pilot, throwout, then the clutch will be like brand new. Mine is and it is an absolute peach to use. Clutch takes any amount of abuse too with the sintered bronze plate that you can pick up from General Gear

I regret posting the photograph of my rusty clutch. My 5U is the later model and I was able to remove the clutch without removing the engine. I realize that the jknarkal's 3J tractor is different in how the clutch is removed and I may have confused him and others with my photograph... sorry for the confusion.