it's coming together

[gus]

I've taken a lot of photos along the way. It's all coming together.

I've been working on the photobucket acct and things got moved. How about we start at the beginning... I bought the tractor 5 yrs back and started working on it 3 yrs ago

It got here looking like this:


Then I removed some junk


It had numerous problems, but this


Digging into the problem???










At this point, I got all the way through it to the shop floor...I figured not much left to take apart...3 yrs ago!! Wrong....

I've found many thing to take apart and damn near every one required some work!!

But.. now it's going back together....if my memory doesn't fail me...

Everything was hauled to get sand blasted first (which showed up a couple of cracks that needed fixing) then painted.



To the blaster... there's a whole crawler there minus the engine and tracks.


Painting after blasting..







Clean everything of rust and dirt then paint...even the rock guard cross bolts ...









The track frames were cleaned and straightened and painted. Many broken bolts...ran a tap through every hole when I got the damaged ones out. I was lucky, only those that I could reach both sides of needed to have nuts put on.



Rollers cleaned and painted...



Rock guards cleaned straightened and painted. I added a bolt at the front where most of the damage was. It appeared to be a weak spot??


cross bars and side frames put on...


And, I'll stop here this thing will take too long to load. I'll do a part 2 later just like Hollywood...

[KenP]

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[gus]

My compliments on your excellent work!
Looks like you have a nice shop to work in also.

Thank you. About the time I was headed to "semi retirement" we down sized the house and up sized the shop. I thought it was a fair trade

[Pammark]

Keep the pictures coming. I know from my posts, this group is hungry for pictures and appreciate all the input.

I see several shops larger than the house in the country. All I can say is; you can see where their priorities are.

Some day when I get the nice fancy shop, heated and cement floor; I will be too old and feeble to use it. That is my luck.

Mark

[gus]

Keep the pictures coming. I know from my posts, this group is hungry for pictures and appreciate all the input.

I see several shops larger than the house in the country. All I can say is; you can see where their priorities are.

Some day when I get the nice fancy shop, heated and cement floor; I will be too old and feeble to use it. That is my luck.

Mark

Well, if there's interest, I can start from the begining and go from there with photos. It was taken apart about 3 yrs back and I'm just making time to finish it.

[440 iron popper]

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Well, if there's interest, I can start from the begining and go from there with photos. It was taken apart about 3 yrs back and I'm just making time to finish it.[/quote]

Gus, post all pics you can!

[gus]

I'm having issues with photobucket not uploading photos correctly (actually, not at all). I'll add part II when I can get this resolved.

[Willyr]

If your using Mozilla with addon Adblock Plus, it may help to disable it

[gus]

At this point, I have a few comments and suggestions for those thinking about doing this. What you're digging into is 50++ yrs old and may not have ever been looked at since new.

Before reassembly:

Look into EVERYTHING (thank you for this, Lavoy, you saved my butt on a couple of things I wouldn't have done). I found some sort of problem in almost every assembly. Even if it didn't have a problem, It needed to be cleaned. I found dirt/sludge in everything or some times just hardened grease. Clean and relube everything.

I have replaced virtually all of the bolts (with the exception of the rock guard cross bolts) with new grade 8 bolts. Even those that do almost nothing like the bolts on the levers. Put never seize on the threads. All those springs are 50++ too.
All shafts should be cleaned and polished with emery and relubed as needed. Anything with threads should be cleaned and a chaser run on them if possible then lube/anti sieze as needed. Use new nuts and locks on the old parts.

[440 iron popper]

Very good pics! It's going to be ''factory'' condition. If you sell it one day, you'll deserve to say: It steers good and runs well

Use new nuts and locks on the old parts.

About those lock washers. The problem I found with them is that they often break, leaving a gap between the head of the bolt and the part it tries to hold tight. The bigger the bolt size, thicker is the lock washer and when it breaks the bolt becomes like unscrewed by a few threads... Have enough lock washers that break on a major component (like transmission to reverser) and the tractor could act like a door hinge. I rather prefer some loctite with a flat washer or locknuts.

I hope I'll post nice pics like yours soon instead of broken parts pics!!!

Nice work.

[Tigerhaze]

This was a pretty good discussion about the use of toique washers over lock washers on bolts with high torque values- also a discussion about bolt grades:

http://www.jdcrawlers.com/messageboard/ ... ock+washer

[whiteclipse16]

At this point, I have a few comments and suggestions for those thinking about doing this. What you're digging into is 50++ yrs old and may not have ever been looked at since new.

Before reassembly:

Look into EVERYTHING (thank you for this, Lavoy, you saved my butt on a couple of things I wouldn't have done). I found some sort of problem in almost every assembly. Even if it didn't have a problem, It needed to be cleaned. I found dirt/sludge in everything or some times just hardened grease. Clean and relube everything.

I have replaced virtually all of the bolts (with the exception of the rock guard cross bolts) with new grade 8 bolts. Even those that do almost nothing like the bolts on the levers. Put never seize on the threads. All those springs are 50++ too.
All shafts should be cleaned and polished with emery and relubed as needed. Anything with threads should be cleaned and a chaser run on them if possible then lube/anti sieze as needed. Use new nuts and locks on the old parts.

I completely agree with all you said here gus. I've run into the same thing with mine. Every hole needs a tap ran through it. Bolts broke/gone, the list goes on and on. You take something apart and find a few more little pieces/linkages etc. that need taken apart. My satisfaction level when mine is done will be very high though. Your work looks excellent can't wait until there's a finished product. Good Luck

[andregrondin]

Hi !

WOW what a nice refurbishing job ! the whole thing inside out , very well done .

congrats