To paint, or not to paint

[ebinmaine 74,245]

8 minutes ago, c-series don said:

then it became a full blown restoration! 

 

 

eeeyyepppp.  

 

Happens here too.  

 

No no. Really. Just a quick one...

 

Riiiiiiiiight......

 

 

 

Like my first C160 Automatic.....

 

[thekevin 29]

Here is the current state of mine.  I am waiting on a few more parts to show up for the switch to points ignition and it's currently draining out the gallons of water that was in the transaxle.  I had a fight getting the left rear wheel off last night, it was rusted on the hub.  I got the front tires cleaned up and painted tonight and new tires should be here Wednesday for them.  I am not going to spend any more money on it until I know that the engine is good.  

[c-series don 10,464]

In case you haven’t figured this out already, we here love this kind of stuff !!! 

[thekevin 29]

I am new to these old tractors.  I just have this 69 Raider 12 and a 68 Sears Suburban 12 that I thought I was finished with but now is waiting on me to get this thing running so that I can do a motor swap on it to a Predator 13hp.

 

 

Edited 20 hours ago by thekevin

[ebinmaine 74,245]

7 hours ago, thekevin said:

motor swap

 

Existing engine blown?

[thekevin 29]

7 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

Existing engine blown?

It’s got the HH120 in it and it smokes a lot.  I’m sure it needs at least rings but I am also having some issues with the starter/generator on it.  It charges, but not much and sometimes struggles to turn the engine over.  

[ebinmaine 74,245]

12 minutes ago, thekevin said:

It’s got the HH120 in it and it smokes a lot.  I’m sure it needs at least rings but I am also having some issues with the starter/generator on it.  It charges, but not much and sometimes struggles to turn the engine over.  

 

 

Gotcha...

 

S/G likely an easy fix but the smoking engine ......

 

[thekevin 29]

Good call to paint the dash white, I like that look.  I have new front tires showing up tomorrow so I took the old ones off today to paint the wheels.  That turned out to be quite a battle and there was a lot of rust under the tubes that were in it.  I wire wheeled them and use some rust killer paint on them.  I am hoping that my tires seal up ok and I don't have to run tubes.  I guess we will see tomorrow.

[ebinmaine 74,245]

3 hours ago, thekevin said:

tubes

 

I use tubes in everything except possibly a brand new wheel and tire installation. 

They're easier to get the bead seated. 

 

FYI. We do not have any sort of aggressive thorns like some areas do.