New to me tractor?

[JimSraj 429]

Another thing to add to the checklist for ‘new to me ‘ tractors. Remove the tins that surround the engines. Check out the mouse nest material I removed from the 312-8 that followed me home last summer. 

[BBQVultureWings 91]

  The wiring of my new to Moo-Wah C-145 with rusted out deck & a Snowblade that followed Moo-Wah home Sunday night has been used as a chew toy by rhodents. You probably saved yourself quite a headache getting rid of that. It is Shocking what those little characters can do to evrything....

Edited October 23 by BBQVultureWings
to include a picture

[Easton Rich 251]

That stuff catches fire, it happened to my 418a

[ebinmaine 67,393]

5 hours ago, JimSraj said:

Remove the tins

 

Absolutely necessary. 

 

It should be on the list in the thread we all made. I'll check it later.  

 

 

 

[Ed Kennell 38,113]

Clearing the air flow on an air cooled engine is as important as checking the fluid in a liquid cooled engine.

[953 nut 55,156]

I have made it a practice to put a tarp over any newly acquired parts tractor and set off a bug bomb while it is on the trailer. Kill the critters before they get into my shop.

[ebinmaine 67,393]

9 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

Absolutely necessary. 

 

It should be on the list in the thread we all made. I'll check it later.  

 

 

 

 

@JimSraj

I looked on the "new to the herd" checklist.

 

We've mentioned looking for hay straw or debris sticking out and we've mentioned blowing out the engine sheet metal with compressed air. We didn't exactly write down that we should absolutely remove engine sheet metal on every tractor.