My Honey's 657 Repaint & refresh

[ebinmaine 67,483]

Other than a little more scraping on the engine block we are done removing old paint.

WOO-HOO !!!

Ordered a full sticker set from @Vinylguy and some more parts from @A-Z Tractor.

 

We both spent some time today scraping and wire brushing and then Trina did a little bit of priming and painting.

 

We ended the work session by bolting a couple things together!

 

 

 

 

 

[19richie66 17,504]

You guys are kickin on that thing. Gonna be nice!

[JPWH 6,033]

Looking good. The paint you are using for high heat is good stuff as long as you follow the directions for heating it up. I have it on three stacks and for about 3 years now and so far good.

[ebinmaine 67,483]

13 hours ago, 19richie66 said:

You guys are kickin on that thing. Gonna be nice!

Thanks man!!

More assembly happening today.

Trina's getting very excited to see it back as a tracta again...

 

12 hours ago, JPWH said:

Looking good. The paint you are using for high heat is good stuff as long as you follow the directions for heating it up. I have it on three stacks and for about 3 years now and so far good.

Thanks Jay!

I'll double check the can but I don't recall seeing any special heat instructions like on others.... 

I was prepared to oven bake it but it didn't say to do so.

 

[ebinmaine 67,483]

Today Trina spent several hours wire brushing the front wheels and got those primed and a coat or two of paint on them.

She started to work on one of the rear wheels and basically just ran out of time.

 

ASSEMBLY HAS BEGUN  !!!!!

 

 

 

We both worked on assembly of the tractor down in the nice cool cellar.

Mocked up the seat and how it's going to sit but we will be changing the base mount.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tractor boy 239]

Things are looking good @ebinmaine. I’m assuming this will be a hard worker? -Tractorboy 

[ebinmaine 67,483]

2 minutes ago, Tractor boy said:

Things are looking good @ebinmaine. I’m assuming this will be a hard worker? -Tractorboy 

Very true, yes.

It'll be put to work on our acreage towing stuff around.

Wood mostly.

Stone, rocks, gravel, etc too.....

Moving the splitter around.

 

My bigger Tractors will do the same thing but with more weight.

 

[dclarke 4,032]

Lookin good, Eric! 

[ebinmaine 67,483]

Just now, dclarke said:

Lookin good, Eric! 

Thanks Den !!

[Chris G 3,296]

I agree with what others have said. It is looking really good so far and you guys are seriously trucking right along on this resto

[ebinmaine 67,483]

This evening I spent an hour or two trying to clean the fins out on the engine and scrape down the block a bit.

 

Trina spent about the same amount of time or even a little more finishing up wire brushing both rear wheels. Then we put a coat of primer on them.

 

 

 

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,315]

20 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

This evening I spent an hour or two trying to clean the fins out on the engine and scrape down the block a bit.

 

Trina spent about the same amount of time or even a little more finishing up wire brushing both rear wheels. Then we put a coat of primer on them.

 

 

 

What will the final rim color be? The almond color (I hope)...not a fan of white rims on a WH  . 

[BOB ELLISON 2,981]

Eric I hope your not like the guy that assembled a car in his basement but couldn't get it out.

[ebinmaine 67,483]

1 hour ago, Sparky said:

What will the final rim color be? The almond color (I hope)...not a fan of white rims on a WH  . 

No sir. Me either. Or my honey. Her choice was almond as well. They are actually almond as of now. Pictures forthcoming later.

 

Engine, rims, seat. All matching.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, BOB ELLISON said:

Eric I hope your not like the guy that assembled a car in his basement but couldn't get it out.

 

Ummmmm......

 

 

Uh oh.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA !!!!!

 

No worries there Bob. French doors headed out of the basement on to the back deck. We installed both...last year.

 

[ebinmaine 67,483]

 

For the record, the color that we are using for the wheels, engine and seat is Rust-Oleum 2x Ultra cover Navajo White.

 

Rear wheels.

 

 

The new front tires arrived in the mail today. Here's one for comparison next to one of the original  front tires.

 

 

 

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,315]

That color choice on the rims looks great!

[stevebo-(Moderator) 8,330]

Navajo white is a great match

[ebinmaine 67,483]

We put the engine on its bracket and mounted it to the frame last night.

Couple minor challenges with a broken bolt and other stuff but oh well.

Installed carb (twice because I forgot to attach linkage the first time...) and breather, too.

Would have done more but sometime in the past one of the nutserts broke away from the fan shroud so we reattached that and left it to dry.

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,483]

We spent a few minutes looking at the charging system and wires on the tractor tonight. It seems that a previous owner decided that they did not need to repair the diodes, one of which is bad, and the two AC wires were directly connected to the positive of the battery.

 

We will rebuild the wiring harness and add a solenoid and new 5 Pin switch tomorrow.

 

Added a couple engine outer pieces and the air filter tonight.

 

 

 

[dells68 7,498]

Looking sweet Eric and Trina!

[posifour11 723]

Repaint, my sweet bippy! 

[ebinmaine 67,483]

5 hours ago, posifour11 said:

Repaint, my sweet bippy! 

Hahahahaha !!

 

Ok... meticulously repaint?

 

I guess both of us are a bit thorough....

[ebinmaine 67,483]

We might be kind of excited.

 

Trina picked up a HF manual tire changer yesterday and we're trying that out this morning.

I'm really looking forward to fiddling with it and understanding how it works.

I'll dismount and mount some old tires first then the 657 rears...

 

Hoping for final assembly this weekend !!!

[19richie66 17,504]

Turning out great Eric! Give Trina a big high five for me ✋

[ebinmaine 67,483]

4 minutes ago, 19richie66 said:

Turning out great Eric! Give Trina a big high five for me ✋

Thanks Richie!

And will do !!!