What are you currently working on??

[CRF6179]

I have been working at getting all the parts for the Mocraft cleaned and primed, ready for top coating.
I spent part of today making a temporary paint booth. Masking off parts not to get painted. and figuring where to hang 30+ parts to dry and cure.
Just when I thought it was all ready, I looked at a box that was under the seat components, and there were the engine tins, s/g brackets and the s/g.
They will have to wait for a second go round later in the week. Tomorrow I'm spraying the brown topcoat on what is ready. I'll try to remember to take pictures and post hem. Rick

 

[CRF6179]

Today's painting went well. The wife mixed and supplied the paint to me and helped transfer painted pieces to their drying spot.
The wind was supposed to pick up this morning so I pieced together a "paint booth", and moved everything to the lee side of the workshop.
My paint gun was a Harbor freight special. I painted all the little stuff that doesn't really show first for practice. The major tins got painted last.
I do believe that the best coat of paint is on the backside of the hood!! Everything is hanging and drying. I ended up with very little pigment on the ground or on the mask filters.
The paint booth was thrown together from some tubing that showed up in my brothers scrap pile, I think it originally was for a swimming pool.
I was supposed to have hauled it in but for some reason I had saved it. The upper perimeter is 8'x10' with 6' legs. The legs pop off and makes for easy storage behind the shop until the next go round. I still need to prep and paint the engine, engine tins, S/G and brackets, seat hinge and brackets, and the wheels. The wife is going to redo the seat for me, then reassembly will begin.
It just dawned on me that I didn't paint the transaxle. It was sitting off to the side under a blanket and I walked by it fifty times and couldn't see it!!

 

[Traill95]

White pipe was Rex's old swimming pool.

 

[Propane1]

Workin on the Case today. Got our free seat, I got last week from my small engine buddy, on the tractor today. And got it charging. Was trying to fix the old regulator, but no go. It was just on and off like a, any way, I found a regulator in a box of stuff, for a kohler K series engine and put that on. Works now. Had a look underneath today To see what other things to fix. Steering gears worn and slipping some times. So will take that part off and build up with some weld, then shape it. Fairly simple tractor underneath. Fits with me good, simple. Found some snow thrower skid shoes, that I bought ten years ago and never used, hehe , they are even the right lookin tractor colour. So they will go on the snow thrower. Don’t like the hydraulic drive. Won’t stay in place when moving forward or backwards. Have to hold the handle. Some times it will move on its own. But it’s annoying that. Doesn’t seem to be any adjustment for it. I thought the linkage might be adjustable.
So I forgot to take pictures of the things we did and of it on the hoist. But I’m sure your getting tired of me mentioning Hoist.

Noel

 

[CRF6179]

Workin on the Case today. Got our free seat, I got last week from my small engine buddy, on the tractor today. And got it charging. Was trying to fix the old regulator, but no go. It was just on and off like a, any way, I found a regulator in a box of stuff, for a kohler K series engine and put that on. Works now. Had a look underneath today To see what other things to fix. Steering gears worn and slipping some times. So will take that part off and build up with some weld, then shape it. Fairly simple tractor underneath. Fits with me good, simple. Found some snow thrower skid shoes, that I bought ten years ago and never used, hehe , they are even the right lookin tractor colour. So they will go on the snow thrower. Don’t like the hydraulic drive. Won’t stay in place when moving forward or backwards. Have to hold the handle. Some times it will move on its own. But it’s annoying that. Doesn’t seem to be any adjustment for it. I thought the linkage might be adjustable.
So I forgot to take pictures of the things we did and of it on the hoist. But I’m sure your getting tired of me mentioning Hoist.

Noel

Get us some pictures of welding and shaping the steering gears. Rick

 

[larrybl]

May want to do more playing ... (trenching) tomorrow. May need a new battery soon. This will take a charge, but after a week in storage won't start. Trickle charging it this evening.

 

[MFDAC]

Thanks Doug. Ya. Different type of hour meter, and it takes a little looking at it to figure out how it measures.
And the Case is not charging. Need a regulator. Have two used ones, but not the same hook up. Will see tomorrow if we can get one to work. And I’d like to see the amp meter working. I‘m just wondering if wires are hooked up.

Have you had the 55 out lately ? Soon time to store away. Rambler and mustang will be put away with in the next two weeks.


Noel

I'm still just using the '55 for my daily driver, Noel, haven't done any shows or cruises for a couple months now. It don't fit in well with all the shiny chromed up hot rods anyway! I'll drive something else when the windows frost though. Too darn hard to scrape!

I haven't worked on anything tractor related for quite a while, and right now I'm "on call" at work so can't get in too deep on much of anything.

DAC

 

[Propane1]

Well Doug. Ya gotta like using any 55 for a daily driver. And ya they are hard to get frost off the windows. Hard to say who would get the most looks. The 55 or the shiny ones.

Oh that on call stuff. Jumpins, gives me nightmares.

Last Sunday about 300 to 400 old cars , trucks, motorcycles, tuner type cars and big trucks had a drive by at our local hospital. A twenty year old young fella with cancer wanted to see a few old vehicles before he died. Well he got his wish. Was only suppose to be a few , but word got around and all these people showed up. Sad thou, poor young guy.

Noel

 

[MFDAC]

Well Doug. Ya gotta like using any 55 for a daily driver. And ya they are hard to get frost off the windows. Hard to say who would get the most looks. The 55 or the shiny ones.

Oh that on call stuff. Jumpins, gives me nightmares.

Last Sunday about 300 to 400 old cars , trucks, motorcycles, tuner type cars and big trucks had a drive by at our local hospital. A twenty year old young fella with cancer wanted to see a few old vehicles before he died. Well he got his wish. Was only suppose to be a few , but word got around and all these people showed up. Sad thou, poor young guy.

Noel

Dang that's a sad deal alright! Glad a bunch of folks came to help him on that wish. I got my liking for cars from my cousin who had a '55 Chevy back in the very early 1960's. Unfortunately he died of cancer a couple of weeks before his 21st birthday in 1962.

DAC

 

[dodge trucker]

Had my durango on my lift (I didn't say the word the other guy uses)
Made it easier to replace the factory foglights, I put some aftermarket Hellas in the factory holes and ran the factory wiring to them so the same switch will run them.
In the country with so many deer running around (no street lights) I need all the help I can get to avoid them.
I've gotten 3 in my lifetime including 1 with this vehicle about 5 years ago.

 

[Propane1]

Some pictures of the steering gear repair. Four teeth were worn bad. So son welded on them and we shaped them with a 90 degree air grinder which had 2” disk. Worked out good. Line it all up as we put it back together. The arrow on the gear was off, so we adjusted the drag link to get the arrow to point straight ahead. Should turn about the same each way now. It was turning much sharper to the right than the left.

Got the regulator mounted and it charges now.
Fixed the pulleys for the snow thrower. One was loose.

Oiled up some thrower moving parts. So the tractor and thrower are useable now.

Still need front tires, ones on it holding air but rotten. Need to fix one leaking rear tire, and get a set of two link chains. Front head lights need wiring And fix up. Thrower needs new skid shoes. Needs an oil change. Amp meter needs replacing.

Noel

 

[dodge trucker]

Camping. Just got set up, going to town for groceries and supplies.
Covered bridge fest cancelled for the year but still had reservation for 4 days and this is only the 2nd )and last) campout this year. Less than usual. Still some decent looking garage sales along the way.

 

[Propane1]

Few more pictures.

Noel

 

[Cat385B]

It was turning much sharper to the right than the left.

RH or LH discharge mower deck? It’s supposed to turn sharper (slightly) to the non-discharge side.

 

[Propane1]

No deck with it Cat. I think those decks discharge from the left. Looking at the arrow on the steering gear, turning to the right has 10 teeth and to the left has 9. Picture of the gear, with the arrow, is from the front of the tractor. I think I got it right. Any way, if discharge of the deck is from the left, sitting on the seat, it should turn less sharp to the left and a bit sharper to the right for trimming. But, I have no deck.

Noel

 

[chieffan]

Ya. Different type of hour meter, and it takes a little looking at it to figure out how it measures.
Noel

Actually, those round meters are service meters and are easy to read as an hour meter. White had moving shows it is running. Short hand reads the hours in 60 hour increments on the inside scale. Long hand reads the individual hours on the outside scale. Read the inside scale using the number lower than the hand, then add the number on the outside scale. This one is reading 398 hours, give or take an hour.

 

[Cat385B]

Why do plumbing issues show up on Sunday night?
Ejector pump float hung up, crudded up. Fixed that, then notice while running water pump kicks on almost instantly. Pressure tank bladder must have an internal leak. Still holding, no external leak yet.
So far this year:
A/C condenser
Ejector pump
Dishwasher
Microwave
Stove
Garage fridge
Basement freezer

 

[Propane1]

Lights fixed up. Lenses are bad. But at least they work. I have one reasonable lens, have to find another some day.

Noel

 

[dodge trucker]

Working on nothing. Camping. Gloomy day here calling for rain in a couple of hours hope it misses us or comes later than they are saying

 

[CRF6179]

Saturday I worked at getting a topcoat on several of the Mocraft components. That old swing set with the scroll work across the top bar was real handy. Here's what I ended up with.