45 John Deere B hydraulic hookup power trol

Is there a way to hook hydraulics up to the power Trol on my 45 John Deere B??? Thanks

If your B has power trol, and not power lift, yes it is very doable. That is indeed what a power trol is for. There are some dummy plugs in the back of a power trol unit that need to be replaced with plugs that will accept a hose end.

I would suggest you do a search here, there may be some past posts with pictures.

Otherwise, a manual for a late B (201,000 serial and up) would cover this topic as well.

If you do have a Power Trol, many install 90 degree angled pipe fittings in the right side of it and put Pioneer Hydraulic Couplings on them and leave the old rear plugs alone...

Just a day or two ago there was a post about a JD Power Lift being improved for height hold by the addition of a Baker Valve ( JD).

So you are in good territory either way..

I don't think they had "Power-Trol" in '45...would have been "Power-Lift" (foot operated) so would need "converted" to run hyd cyl. Power trol doesn't need any conversion ...but take out coupling "dummy plugs" and slide in hose couplers instead.

Actually not as the way to couple is different. The late ones had a relief lever on the right side to let you pull the plugs, the earlier like he should have if it has not been converted over to the new style unit will have a nut (hand loosen) over the insert that has to come out to put the hose insert in and there is a partial shear washer that has to be in there to hold things in. If that washer is missing it will not hold things in place. That washer being a shear washer if you have say a plow behind and it hits something and releases the plow so it does not break things that washer is designed to shear and before you can use the tractor again you have to have a new shear washer (brass) to put in. That power trol came out in 45 and is the same unit as I had on my 46 B and it is different than the 49 B had with the lever that with the pull on the hoses from breaking away to uncouple will release without dammage except you will get a big oil bath with each style. On the 49 it was set up with the pionere breakaway hooked to the side and you did not loose oil, just could not rehook hose with oil pressuer in them. There was a valve that had to be put in where one of the plugs were on the back to switch from remote to rockshaft. This was the same on my late A. Now on mine that is like his I took the plugs out from the back and put the hose plugs in but I routed them to a pair of Pionere couplers so I had the same break away capabilities with all 3 tractors without loosing oil. Dad got that oil bath as soon as we got the cylinder hookup for the B when he pulled the hoses loose with the cylinder holding the header of the combine up, completely empty the cylinder on him. Now a few of the earliest styled B 201,000 up did have the shear washer style system before they got the lever release style designed and into production. Had that 49 B for over 40 years.

i must have a power lift because I have foot pedals. What would I have to do to convert it?

You would need to get a complete power troll box and swap it out. Other than being heavy I don't think it would be that hard to do. What are you wanting to do, run with a power troll? If for a cylinder there are other ways to do that. If you want the ability to stop the rockshaft at any place like if you have put a 3 point for a rear blade on then you do need to swap the power lift box for a power troll box. For that you do not need to change the rockshaft. And I am not sure but I think the Power troll box from any 45 to 52 B tractors would fit. Possibly from an A also. Go into JD parts lookup site and find the B parts book and just start by compairing parts as the gasket that would go on the backside of the box, if that is the same from all models then check the other parts.