Achto 27,601 #101 Posted February 25, 2022 (edited) More progress. Did some tin knocking and welding up the excess holes. Have the sheet metal strait enough to be blasted & then it will need some final body work. All of the spot welds holding the fender mount and the pan together had broken loose and a PO had bolted them two together. I drilled the pan full of holes in preparation to weld the parts back together. Tranny cases have been stripped and an extra drain port added so that you don't have to stand the tractor on end to drain all the fluid out. Then I sprayed some self etching primer to preserve them until assembled. Will paint the tranny case after it is assembled. End of the steering shaft was badly worn. I filled the worn area with weld and then ground everything smooth. Used a 3/4 bushing as a guide to ensure that I had the diameter correct. Knocked the rivets out of the two idle pulleys so that I can change the bearings in them. Tie rods were of course worn. I will be putting replaceable ends on so I marked the original tie rods to be cut & turned down for the new ends. Everything is measured so the the tie rods will come out just a little short, this leaves room for full adjustments. This pic shows them close to finished. Edited February 25, 2022 by Achto 3 12 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,592 #102 Posted February 25, 2022 You do alright Dan. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snoopy11 5,714 #103 Posted February 25, 2022 40 minutes ago, Achto said: More progress. I am laughing... Now that I am... mostly done with my build... @Achto... now I can just kick back and watch you work on your 867... Don 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #104 Posted February 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, Snoopy11 said: I can just kick back and watch you work on your 867 I will have some stall's coming up. Still waiting for engine & tranny parts yet, getting impatient. Then the block will have to go to the machinist to have the hole punched out. Going to keep going on as much as I can though. 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,592 #105 Posted February 25, 2022 1 minute ago, Achto said: hole punched You should get @WHX?? Jim to buy you a borerizer. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #106 Posted February 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: Jim to buy you a borerizer. And a crankshaft lathe. 1 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TJ5208 1,824 #107 Posted February 25, 2022 Can you give me an estimate of how long do you think this rehabilitation will take. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #108 Posted February 25, 2022 29 minutes ago, TJ Salyers said: Can you give me an estimate of how long do you think this rehabilitation will take. I was shooting for 5 or 6 weeks, only working on it on the weekends. Don't look like that it will work out though. Waiting on parts plus I'm sure I'll be held up waiting for machining. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,592 #109 Posted February 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, Achto said: waiting for machining What's your Machinist's backlog time? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #110 Posted February 25, 2022 3 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: What's your Machinist's backlog time? About 2 weeks "estimated". Won't take him the block until my piston arrives though. Ordered my rebuild kit the Monday after I took the tractor apart. Parts are coming from Minnesota, I'm starting to think that the only legal way to transport goods across the MessySloppy (Mississippi) river is by using Tom Sawyer's log raft and a push pole. 2 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,592 #111 Posted February 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, Achto said: transport goods That's plenty of time. Wow. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #112 Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) Moving along a little bit. Carburetor and fuel pump cleaned up and rebuilt then both were sealed in ziploc bags until they are installed. Dash panel is sprayed with my rendition of a brushed aluminum finish. I spray the dash with Duplicolor silver wheel paint. When it dries I use Scotchbrite to make machine brush stokes in the paint, taking care so that the scratches only go one direction. Then I use Duplicolor wheel clear to gloss it up. All ready for Terry's 3 piece dash decal set. With any luck I will be blowing some red paint around this weekend. Edited March 4, 2022 by Achto 1 12 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,592 #113 Posted March 4, 2022 Lookin' goooooood. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee1977 6,664 #114 Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) On 2/24/2022 at 8:20 PM, Achto said: More progress. Tie rods were of course worn. I will be putting replaceable ends on so I marked the original tie rods to be cut & turned down for the new ends. Everything is measured so the the tie rods will come out just a little short, this leaves room for full adjustments. This pic shows them close to finished. You have those looking good, but you should have gone with heims joints.. Did my C-120 with heims joints 33 years ago and they are still tight. It was my main mower until two years ago. Edited March 4, 2022 by Lee1977 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #115 Posted March 4, 2022 14 minutes ago, Lee1977 said: gone with heims joints No can do Lee not original ... we tend to be purists here and these will last another fifty years or so. Thing is and speaking for Dan this will not be a trailer queen and not a true worker but rest assured it most likely get put in dirt after done. On 2/25/2022 at 1:01 PM, TJ Salyers said: Can you give me an estimate of how long do you think this rehabilitation will take. Only one thing you gotta know about Dan is TJ when he gets on a resto project or custom he gets tunnel vision and and really works it till it's done. No screwin around ...Prolly kills him more than anything waiting for paint to cure. Wished I had than kinda git up and go with my projects. I'm more along the lines with EB's projects.... 2 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee1977 6,664 #116 Posted March 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, WHX?? said: No can do Lee not original ... we tend to be purists here and these will last another fifty years or so. Thing is and speaking for Dan this will not be a trailer queen and not a true worker but rest assured it most likely get put in dirt after done. Only one thing you gotta know about Dan is TJ when he gets on a resto project or custom he gets tunnel vision and and really works it till it's done. No screwin around ...Prolly kills him more than anything waiting for paint to cure. Wished I had than kinda git up and go with my projects. I'm more along the lines with EB's projects.... Those are not original either, the original was one size fits all. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,592 #117 Posted March 4, 2022 5 hours ago, WHX?? said: Wished I had than kinda git up and go with my projects. I'm more along the lines with EB's projects.... BBT is more along the lines with Dan's thinking. She's some kinda handy to have around! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #118 Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) Started out my day by spraying a little paint. I chose to spray white today so that I had time to put my tranny back together. This way the tranny could get sprayed red tomorrow. @WHX?? caught wind that today was the day to put the tranny together so he was nice enough to stop by & lend a hand. Much appreciated too, specially when it came time to put the detent balls in, always nice to have an extra set of hands for that. Thanks for all your help today Jim!!! Should be ready to lay down a whole lot of red paint tomorrow. Edited March 6, 2022 by Achto 5 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #119 Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) Yah but you neglected to tell the boys how we maimed TWO axle seals. I know now what I did then we put a champer on the lead in's on the cases. Just a bit with a hand file before bearings are seated. We really didn't have the right tool for the job but you under ther orchard tree guys know what I'm sayin. On the good side input seal went in with fingers .. one which I always screw up at least two or five times. Dan likes the input seals that Lowell has which are much easier to install than the SKF metal rimmed ones. We shoulda got a pic to explain why. BTW call me Dan ' fore you order more seals. Found where we can order them in bulk and you know how I like to have ten dozen on the shelf...... Edited March 6, 2022 by WHX?? 5 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,326 #120 Posted March 6, 2022 18 hours ago, Achto said: Started out my day by spraying a little paint. I chose to spray white today so that I had time to put my tranny back together. What color are the rims? They don’t look like straight up white. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #121 Posted March 7, 2022 5 hours ago, Sparky said: What color are the rims? They are IH off white. I'm not a big fan of the straight white. 3 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #122 Posted March 7, 2022 How did the red fly today? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #123 Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, WHX?? said: How did the red fly today? Hung the wind chimes that @kpinnc was waiting for & sprayed a fresh coat of red paint on the garage floor today, even managed to get a little paint on my parts. Jim I found another axel seal in my double secret stash ( it was even a secret to me ) After spraying paint I had time left in the day to sand blast my parts that would not fit in the blast cabinet. Next up will be to get the body work done on the sheet metal so that it can be painted. Edited March 7, 2022 by Achto 1 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,828 #124 Posted March 7, 2022 Nice looks like the hood is really straight on the front anyway. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,601 #125 Posted March 7, 2022 1 minute ago, WHX?? said: Nice looks like the hood is really straight on the front anyway. After a fair amount of hammer & dolly work. The grill was bashed in pretty good. It will require a bit of filler yet to finish it out. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
