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…and crud!! It came home with me. What is it? A rough 1974 C-100/8 speed. Included a similarly rough 42” plow. What caught my eye? Those new Carlisle All-Trails on the rear. What will I do with it? Keep the rear rims/tires at a minimum and sell the rest. Pics of course..

One of the best deals that I ever had was a LeCar. Bought it for a winter beater, for $50. What great winter beater it was too!! That car would go through almost anything, fact I would purposely miss corners and drive out into a snow covered field to scare the crap out of friends that were riding with me. She always climbed through the snow & made her way back on to the road. Also took it mud running in the spring along with my buddies & their 4x4's, would go any where they went. Only thing that I ever replaced on the car was the rear side window ( it got sucked out of the car while I was passing a semi) Cut out a piece of paneling and glued it to the old seal, worked great. Some time late in the spring I stepped on the clutch coming up to a stop sign and heard a pop sound. When I went to pull away from the stop sign, she wouldn't move. Walked back to where I heard the pop & found pieces of clutch material all over the road. On the bright side, the junk yard gave me $50 for the car.

Black head light bucket???? Well that ain't right. No worries, I haven't lost my mind. YET! I painted it black with a urethane clear coat about a week ago. Why?? This was done so that it could end up looking like this. After the black had cured for a week, then I sprayed it with Moto Chrome paint. If you look at my hook that was red in the first pic, you see how the black changes the out come of the chrome paint. Hoping that with a chrome-ish back ground that the lights may be brighter. ( I think that the factory lights are only slightly better than holding a candle in front of you while you drive ) With any luck the chrome paint and the high out put LEDs will be an improvement. @WHX?? stopped by to drop some parts off for me to work on and ended up hanging out to help me put my engine together. Good thing too, as he caught me making a couple of mistakes. When we were unwrapping parts Jim noticed that some how @ebinmaine's chief mechanic must be endorsing the piston that I'm using. She even has her initials engraved on them. A fresh cylinder & piston with a nice drizzle of Lucas pic. Always easy on the eyes. Knocked off for the day with the engine mostly sealed off to the elements. There were a few trinkets that I forgot to paint so I have to wait for them to dry before I finish buttoning things up.

I WAS going to say to grab the head off the Collasus Project as you would not be needing it anytime soon, but that would be downright COLD on my part!!

Since acquiring a C100 back last November I’ve been searching for a few more attachments. It came with a Brinly bottom plow, broadcast spreader, wheel horse dozer blade, dump cart, tiller, and 36” mower deck. I raise a small garden so the bottom plow and tiller have already been put to use this season and both performed great. Been on the hunt for a Brinly disc and cultivator for a while and over the past month have recently picked up both. Super excited to get these in the dirt!! And don’t worry the disc has some fresh IH white paint that’s currently drying before the reassembly.

Well here's our other full total restoration. Trina's Military Tribute Tractor, "Millie". Started out as an 856 that was sent up by @Herder Adam. Add some @Sparky rims and tires. An engine from a '68 Raider (for a bit). @Vinylguy Terry supplied the excellent decals.

Yes you do yes you do yes you do!

Had a great day getting some serious cleanup done in and near the newly cleared garden (+) area behind the backyard and outdoor workshop building. We had our hiking buddies Kevin and Samantha over to help out in trade of the usual surly attitude and fairly decent coffee along with a nicely done BBQ chicken/veggies meal by Trina. As a size reminder this pic shows Trina in front of the larger of the two piles we burned. We also took a bunch of waste boards and pallets along with many other branches/sticks/brush from the surrounding ground. Here's Trina and her mom working at the smaller pile. They were pulling from the area to the left of and behind the pile clearing brush. Trina about to hand off a grabful of brush to the Mama. I spent a bunch of time sorting out the leaves from this huge pile and plopping the sticks on the burn pile. It was burning fast enough that with only feeding it I could barely keep up. I can't lift anything heavy with my left arm for a bit so Trina and Kevin moved some of the old construction waste to the burn mound. Here's Kevin standing at the last of the fire. Note that the entire pile behind him... ISN'T. There's also quite alot of old woodstuff missing from behind him on that little hill. I've been in this house 17 years and don't remember ever having that area completely emptied. I other news, Trina has taken it upon herself to dam up the new frog pond and raise the level a little. She's been strategically placing stones, mud, and now this yellow birch log to do so. Another excellent day in the life of a Large Bear 🐻🐻.

Made some progress today. I installed the modified rock shaft and tacked up the link from the hydraulic cylinder to the lift. I also tacked the frame together for the sleeve hitch to see what adjustments might be needed. I have a few adjustments to make but it is working. Still a couple hours of final welding to do.

Made some good progress today. Finished the engine up this morning. With that done I moved on to throwing a few pieces together on the chassis. Got this far on it & had to quit for the day.

Got the '75 C160 Automatic head reinstalled with a new gasket and bolts. Also added a piece of sheet metal trim to the back of the hood. Looks good and tightens up the connection from hood to hood stand.

The BBT bought a bathroom vent fan a few weeks ago. Her electrician friend wired it in and installed the carrier box. Today we finished up the installation. She went up in the attic, ran the vent hose and clamped it on. I used a couple different tools to install the soffit vent. Now we have a fully vented non moldified and destinkified restroom.

The main reason (ok, only reason) I bought it..I really like the Carlisle All Trail tires. The plan will be go paint up the rims and install em on this tractor to replace the AG’s

Another recent make over. The usual re paint both side covers because of the factory no primer method. Biggest issue was swapping the tranny because of PO letting water into the trans and popped out the cast iron in a few places. Good side was the replacement had the 1 1/8'' axles. Some donated tins @Sparky a big Thank You. And as usual plenty of labor, sanding and small parts replacement.

During a lighting upgrade at the hospital they installed reflector material in the led ceiling lights. Some locations it was too much so they had to come out. Of course I scarfed it!

I know one thing: I no longer want a D250...

Realized I’m 8 pages whine on this thread, and had Mrs. P help me move the non-driving hilo. She spun the tires on Chloe the 953 but we got it rolling eventually!

I've got a running tractor! (and I pulled the wagon out and gave the kids a hayride with the Charger 12) Couple of observations: I spent a lot more money on dead-ends than I intended. A carb kit and fuel pump kit ($60) ended up being replaced with a new carb and a new fuel pump, bought some tools (stripped bolt remover) that ended up not achieving the goal I had for them. However, a new belt did wonders and a used Craftsman drill I picked up at the local resale shop ($8) ended up being my MVP. Tractor was $200 and I think I've put around $200 in to the project so far so the next step is that hydraulic setup and the mowing deck. Both tractors seem to suffer from the same malady, when under heavy load they start to act like they're running out of fuel. They start this patchy sort of surging until I pull back for a few minutes and then apply the load again. This afternoon we had to stop the hay-ride in the middle to let the Charger catch it's breath. The weird thing is that it finished snow season without a problem. I'm definitely interested in picking up that bar hitch but the pin in the transmission case is locked in place, what's the best way to get movement on it?

Depends what's wrong. Bad spark plug to broken crankshaft. I would try to get it running, then decide where the loader belongs.

Boy this thread is but it's good clean fun. I had to attend a training class for Jeep and the instructor had worked in France for Renault. The topic of Customer Service came up and he told a story of a factory rep in France who had a customer complaining about wind noise in his 18i wagon. The rep removed the luggage rack and the noise was gone. Customer asked what the permanent repair was gonna be and the Rep opened the hatch and threw the luggage rack inside the car and said "that's it!"

I was in a Jaguar XKE that had a warning label on the glove box insisting that the windows be rolled up at speeds in excess of 110 mph. Apparently leaving them open could cause the rear hatch to pop open. The Renault 5 would have to be falling off a cliff to hit 110.

That's the look I love, depending on what it takes to bring it back for work duty, that ten is a great worker. Good luck with it, my wife thinks I'm nuts too.

Another approach that I saw some ... 40+ yrs? ago? There was this fella and son that had built up a highly respected back yard machine shop (the kind you DO NOT see anymore) So my son had a little Datsun truck (yes, a real Datsun) that had a broken cam shaft. He had heard of this place so off we went to get the head ckd for any damage. The old guy sez, yeah better let us ck it might have warped the aluminum head..... So he goes over to this large - 36"? flat faced, adjustable ... abrasive? table. (like an oversized disc sander) and lays the head on the dead flat surface around the disc and turns it on and slides the head onto the rotating surface, constantly moving the head in different positions (like figure 8, etc). Do that for 15-20-25 seconds, slide the head off to edge flip it up to ck for high/lo places, put it back for a few more seconds and after bout 3-4 passes its flat all across!! $20 and we went home and put it back together.

@SylvanLakeWH… I got it! I started jumping switches while I had another member on the phone (if he wants to break his anonymity he can). It turned out to be the PTO switch. Just ordered one on Fleabay… Thanks a million for the quick response!

I'm usually home by around 4:30, feel free to stop by.

The 121 would be a dedicated loader…

Get it running. You'll want a dedicated tractor for a loader....

By his pics belt doesn't look bad. This problem seems to have cropped up when the trans was swapped. He mentioned one of the hubs was sliding on the axle in his other thread. I want pics of the axles and hubs.

Hey, I volunteered and have no regrets.

Don't have to! All us married guys are rowing the same boat! LOL!

A swing and a miss - strike 1 "Franco-American Motors" is what I had seen it referred to .... Bill

Last Horse I got was just because it had a nice set of steel weights on the rear wheels. What I paid for the whole machine was about what the weights were worth. Of course the machine has joined the stable and has become a sweet 312-8 (K series, so early) go-to plow machine! With the price of gas, it might be my primary mower this year. Those 12hp machines sip

Happy Wife happy life - that simple.... don‘t ask why i knew this..😎🤫

Now it‘s worth at least more than 6 hundrets of that value. Because of the chick magnet - is still on it , even today... 😂

Dig that patina bud!

Time and space is money in a shop.

That's 100 times better than the Roach Coach I brought home last year!

I've used a piece of tempered glass on a towel on a table. This time I'm using a piece of flat steel. What grit do you start and end with? I've usually done 80 til close then 120, 180, 220, 400. I've never been less than 45 minutes between setup, switching paper and cleanup. The head I just got done this morning is the worst one I've had yet. It was out pretty badly on 2 opposite corners. Been using 120 grit (no 80 on hand). 80-100 fore n aft strokes. Turn 90⁰. Repeat. It's been at LEAST 2-2.5 hours work on this one. Off and on for weeks. Several thousand strokes for sure with no exaggeration. This morning I finally switched to 80 grit for awhile and obviously that worked much faster. Then 220. Enough for that one ... I'd bring them to a machine shop but all the local places want 50 to 75 per head. Not happening.

for all the heads covers I ever sanded, I spray paint them flat black, and sand with a piece sandpaper with a glass block. All the ones I did rarely took more than 10 minutes of hand sanding to get them flat again. Plus the you have the head gasket. Yes I try do things right but I am also not building a spec airplane engine either.

The outside of the head surface is going to see a lot more abrasive than the inside. Think of it like pulley sizes.

Eric: MAYBE - I am not a fan of circular motion to get something flat - as in bodywork - you use a linear flat sander for that. I AM a fan of the tried-and-true method with wet or dry sandpaper, used wet, and moving the head in a figure 8 motion. Why not take a head from the "Parts Department" - one with a half stripped out spark plug hole - or some other less than desirable defect and have at it??? (In the old days at work we would have to do a sample of no less than 30 to gain confidence in the outcome of a statistical analysis study ....)

The management have shared plans for the concrete balcony floor to be tiled this spring to make it more usable in the summer. Bought the tiles and materials and as soon as I take delivery I will be laying 600mm square tiles onto the level pad. When will I ever learn about that woman and her scheming?

You must already know that the LED bulbs a vast improvement over the original incandescent bulbs

After the OT at work today I came home and wired the taillights, put the seat pan and the seat on… On the video… wait for it… Are the Work Horses short frame tractors ?… seems like I’m awful close to the steering wheel, and the seat is adjusted all the way back… IMG_0633.MOV

Very nice, I'm certainly interested to hear how that moto chrome works out! Since your almost done, can I drop a couple of engines needing rehab off at your place!

I know how embarrassing it is to admit to having read instructions but it happens to all of us now and then. You are a better man than most for having admitted it.

Trust me Mike, you needed it! If you bought it for the tires, I'm guessing you got it cheap. Win-win in my book!

And the inside of the 1100's are painted. A lot less surface area to rust with most of the gearing is under the oil. I know one place people over look when it comes to water in oil..... the original packaging. Back in the day I had an issue with water and it was in the 5 gallon cans we purchased. The cans we stored outside in the weather and the sun would expand the cans. And if it rained there after, the can would slowly draw the water laying on top down inside through the pour spout.

I'm with Bill & Gwest. It might be difficult to apply even pressure as even a very slight deviation of the angle when spinning will make the edges uneven, To save time start with a more aggressive grit and work your way down. (Down in size of the actual grit size but up according to the number grit).