Worked on replacing oil seals today.
Axle seals aren't too bad, pretty straight forward. The Hi-Lo shifter seal was a bear because it's tiny, about the size of a nickel. When I pulled the brake pulley, I put tension on it with a 3 jaw puller, hit it with kroil, let it sit for about 24 hours, and repeated. On the third day, I lubed it up, put more tension on the pulley, and was starting to walk away when it popped loose. I'm glad I put the nut on before I stared, I think it would have shot across the garage, it had quite a bit of tension on it. The seal itself wasn't too bad.
Now that the oil seals, rubber seal, and gaskets are replaced, I shouldn't have an issue with oil leaking out of water leaking in. I need to grind my broken bolts flat so I can drill and tap them, then I can prime and paint it and get it back in.
Looked at my free tractor a bit, the rear rims are the same, so I'll eventually wire wheel them down, paint them, buy another pair of Deestone ags for them, load them and put them on if it doesn't plow well. I don't mind doing that except for buying another set of tire chains. I'm gonna try the 2 link spaced v-bars I have, but I'm worried about using them on ag treads. I saw the duo and diamond style are for deep treads, starting at $125 per set. Not sure if I'll need duals or not, but it sure would look cool, lol. With a wider stance, I could possibly reduce some of the weed eating I do now, which is about 3 hours to do my main bank.