waterinthefuel
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Remember a while back I made a post about how pissed off I was that my dad was selling the tractor we put so much effort into restoring? Well, the guy he sold it to was getting rid of his old tractor. He said we could have it if we wanted it. We went down the hill to get it, the guy jumped on this old rusty looking POS and the thing started right up, didn't smoke, ran perfect. We said, "Put it on the trailer!" (we offered to deliver the tractor to the guys house for free since he had no way of moving it and only lived about 15 miles away.)
Please note, this is a 1974 model tractor with all 4 original tires still on it and holding air.
Well, this is what she looked like when I got her:
Definitely rough and in need of some serious TLC.
After investing about 150-200 hours of labor taking it all apart, sanding it, priming what I could, grinding out a bad spot in the hood and learning how to use bondo, cleaning out old nasty looking grease, regreasing with fresh molybdenum grease, putting on some new hardware from hardware that had broken in two over time, adjusting the chain tension, oiling the chain, this is what I have now. Total cost including brand new decals, synthetic oil for her and a new spark plug and air filter: about 140 dollars. Had my dad not sold his old tractor, I certainly wouldn't have this one!
And no, I didn't put the wheels on wrong. There are two "left" side's. You just can't see it backwards in the first photo. I decided not to have them remounted at risk of destroying the original tires in trying to get them off and back on. I don't know who did that, but it's kind of silly. Still, too much risk in taking them off the rims so she'll just putt-putt along with one tire forwards and one backwards!
In case you're wondering, its a 16hp single cylinder Briggs I/C belt driven tractor. It's a belt drive to one side of the tranny and a chain going from the other side to the sprocket on the rear axle. (you can see the chain drive in the top photo and belt drive in the bottom photo) This one was modified to have a hydraulic category 0 3 point hitch in the back. It also has a hydraulic belly implement attachment, but I can't get that to work nor find any implements for it anyway because it's so old. That's ok, it has room for future expansion if I want to machine shop some metal attachments so I can use it with a grader blade, etc.
Please note, this is a 1974 model tractor with all 4 original tires still on it and holding air.
Well, this is what she looked like when I got her:
Definitely rough and in need of some serious TLC.
After investing about 150-200 hours of labor taking it all apart, sanding it, priming what I could, grinding out a bad spot in the hood and learning how to use bondo, cleaning out old nasty looking grease, regreasing with fresh molybdenum grease, putting on some new hardware from hardware that had broken in two over time, adjusting the chain tension, oiling the chain, this is what I have now. Total cost including brand new decals, synthetic oil for her and a new spark plug and air filter: about 140 dollars. Had my dad not sold his old tractor, I certainly wouldn't have this one!
And no, I didn't put the wheels on wrong. There are two "left" side's. You just can't see it backwards in the first photo. I decided not to have them remounted at risk of destroying the original tires in trying to get them off and back on. I don't know who did that, but it's kind of silly. Still, too much risk in taking them off the rims so she'll just putt-putt along with one tire forwards and one backwards!
In case you're wondering, its a 16hp single cylinder Briggs I/C belt driven tractor. It's a belt drive to one side of the tranny and a chain going from the other side to the sprocket on the rear axle. (you can see the chain drive in the top photo and belt drive in the bottom photo) This one was modified to have a hydraulic category 0 3 point hitch in the back. It also has a hydraulic belly implement attachment, but I can't get that to work nor find any implements for it anyway because it's so old. That's ok, it has room for future expansion if I want to machine shop some metal attachments so I can use it with a grader blade, etc.
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