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Slowly making some progress on the tractor. I put the new fuel pump on Sunday, today I turned it over. After a couple cyles it popped and fired. It runs great. Revs and idles down real smooth. I need a battery, I started it today using my 160amp fleet charger on quick start. I took it for a test drive and what a difference between this and any other gt I've operated. This feels like a smaller version of a big tractor. At work we have a jd 460 and the clutch, brake, trans feel very similar.

I started using a rubbing compound on the hood and fenders I have a few other tricks to make the decals pop too. At work I found a set of wheels and Firestone terra grips with hub caps too. I cleaned up the chrome and the tubed tires hold air. I like the look and tread on the old tires much better than what's on the wheels now. Next up scraping, painting the deck sharpen the blades and grease the bearings

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Wheel-N-It

That's a nice looking 312. How many hours are on the meter?

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Red144runner

Thank you. Around 800

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Retired Wrencher

Red144runner        :WRS:    Howdy neighbor. Looking good. It is always good when people come over from the dark green side and into the light.   So what are the tricks you for decals???  Enjoy your new tractor.

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TDF5G

Mighty fine looking Horse you have there.

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Red144runner

For the decals, and any vinyl/rubber based material there is a lot of options. I've never been happy with the results, mothers back to black works ok. I asked my dads buddy who owns a body shop what they use on the cars. Very simple. 50/50 mix boiled linseed oil and paint thinner. It works incredible. I've used it to freshen up plastics on sunburnt chainsaws and on my new 4runners black trim. Wipes off your paint and I haven't hurt anything. I'll do some before and afters on the tractor

As far as the green side goes. No thanks. We have green stuff at work. The 4610 tractor, a 14 and 15 series and a new 60" Zturn mower. The 14 and 15 are always breaking down and the z blew up a pto clutch at 450 hours. I'm slowly trying to replace with toro. Gonna take a while but we will get the ugly green and yellow out

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