1947 Farmall Cub project

[cjet69]

Drilled out the spot welds and removed the bad hood. This will make handling the tank easier during the cleaning process. If this tank cleans up good, I will remove the hood from the rust thru tank and install on this one. I don't know if I am making progress or just digging the hole deeper at this point.

 

[CRF6179]

I don't know if I am making progress or just digging the hole deeper at this point.

Around here it seems to be the same thing!
Looking forward to the rest of the restoration.

 

[cjet69]

Cleaned the hood from post #40 up in the electrolysis tank. It has some rust thru at the back of the hood. I think I can cut a piece out of the hood in post #41 and weld into this one.

 

[Propane1]

How will you attach the good two together.
They were spot welded, were they ?

Noel

 

[cjet69]

How will you attach the good two together.
They were spot welded, were they ?

Noel

I'll use the MIG welder and make plug welds to attach the hood to the tank. When I splice the 2 hoods together I will butt weld.

 

[cjet69]

My brother came over with his grandson today to do some work on the engine for this cub. He had his grandson turning wrenches, tapping holes, and torquing bolts. They torqued the rod bolts, installed a new rear main seal, and bolted the pan down. Then moved on to head installation. He is going to try to get back next weekend to install the manifold, carb, and a few other parts. Anyway, this is progress, and his grandson is getting his hands dirty.

 

[chieffan]

Good experience for the lad. My 3 yo granddaughter helped me mount 10 hp Briggs on a wood spliter. Learned that orange stuff is good hand cleaner.

 

[cjet69]

Started prepping the engine for some paint. Pulled the governor off to free up the throttle rod pivot which came off with a little heat. Removed the starter, Mag, and fan and hit it with a knotted wire brush. Got a little more to do and then its paint time.

 

[cjet69]

Looked over the engine and found some greasy area's and decided it needed a second cleaning. Scrubbed it with lacquer thinner and scotchbrite. Followed that with another wire brushing and finished it off with some Ospho to kill the rust. Need to prep the fan and manifold before I start painting.

 

[chieffan]

I have had real good luck using cheap oven cleaner from Dollar General Store. Have to use gloves and eye protection when using it, washed off with cold water and garden hose nozzle.

 

[cjet69]

Finally got around to spraying some epoxy primer on the cub engine.

 

[MNGB]

Looks mighty fine

 

[cjet69]

While looking through the boxes of cub parts that we have I picked up a fan assy and thought the blades looked short. When I compared it to this power unit fan assy sure enough the power unit fan is larger diameter. Also looks like the drive pulley is bigger diameter. Guess I need to clean up another fan to use for this tractor.

 

[MNGB]

Must have been a bigger radiator on the power unit and maybe an alternator?

 

[cjet69]

Must have been a bigger radiator on the power unit and maybe an alternator?

I'll have to measure the power unit radiator and see how much larger it is. This power unit was on our small pull-type combine and was a hand start only setup. No charging system or starter ring gear on the flywheel. The belt on the crank pulley ran the larger pulley on the fan.

 

[cjet69]

Cleaned up the air cleaner and a correct fan assy. I'll get them primed tomorrow.

 

[cjet69]

Primed the air cleaner, but the fan shaft was stuck. It wasn't bad and broke free easily with a wrench on it. Decided to take it apart, which was a good thing. must have had water in it at one time and got a little rusty along with some sludge build up. Ran the pulley/hub thru the sandblast cabinet to clean it up and wire brushed the shaft followed by some emery cloth. Treated all of it with Ospho and will prime it tomorrow.

 

[cjet69]

A few more pics including a couple manifolds and water pipes. Not sure which manifold we are going to use yet.

 

[cjet69]

Bought a pipe tap to clean up the threads in the manifold. We already had this old pipe threader to clean up the pipe.

 

[cjet69]

I've been waiting for a little warmer weather so I could get the shop warmed up enough to paint. I was hoping for a 50°F+ day but today it got up to 43°F which is the warmest predicted for weeks and I needed to get this done. Loaded up the wood furnace and fired up the propane heater and got the shop up to 60°F. Mixed the paint and sprayed some red finally. I still have the fan assy, starter, and a few other small parts to spray.