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Honest Bob

After a rather warm welcome I figured I better start a thread here. A little back story, my brother in law picked this tractor up in trade for some mechanical work and it fell into my hands because I am a huge fan of well made items of years gone by. Its got a home made thing on the front holding what I believe to be a bigger battery and some sort of pulley setup for lifting a plow. A home made plow and some sort of pull behind attachment are part of the deal but havent been picked up yet. 

 

Pics from when I got it home.

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Today before a good pressure washing in better light.

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After the pressure washing.

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odd cotter pin placement...

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A little bit of a leak that looks to have been previously *fixed*. 

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A video of it running. 

 

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AMC RULES

Cleaned up nicely...

& runs pretty good too.  :handgestures-thumbsup:

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953 nut

Seems to have been subjected to a bit of shade-tree engineering, but that is now a pat of its DNA, looks solid;  I like it!     :text-coolphotos:

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AlwaysLookin80

Cool tractor. Love the survivor look. 

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Honest Bob

I started tearing things apart. Yay I can open the hood now. :greetings-clappingyellow: Looks like I'll have to source a battery tray as I want to put the battery back inside the engine bay. Anyone know what tractors share the same parts?

 

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These pictures are for putting it back together. 

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Honest Bob

A little progress today. My brother in law welded up the seat for me.

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Then it was time to flatten out the rear end.

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I figured I would be best off using something softer to bend it back into shape so I cut some scrap 2x4 to 11" and clamped it on there goodntight.

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It worked better than I thought it would.

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Still had some more straightening to do. I grabbed a longer piece of 2x4 and a body hammer.

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Good enough for the girls I go out with. 

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This piece was bent as well. Nothing a 2x4 couldn't fix. 

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Honest Bob

Today I tackled the fuel shutoff leak, it was beyond simple to fix.

 

I removed the crusty broken o ring that is in the thumb wheel.

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and replaced it with a 5mm id x 9mm od x 2mm w o ring I had. I feel like its not the correct size but its working for now. 

 

also took pictures of the identification plates. Is there some sort of registry around?

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Tomorrow i'm going to attempt to mow the lawn with the wheel horse for the first time. 

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gwest_ca

There is not a serial number registry as per say but the numbers have been added. Thanks for posting them.

Garry

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Honest Bob

Thanks Garry! 

 

I think I have located the appropriate snow blower on craigslist. Gonna take a look at it on Saturday!

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AlwaysLookin80

Nice job, looks great. 

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