Project "Snow Drift"

[Oldskool 6,582]

At a snail's pace today but still making headway.

[Maxwell-8 4,270]

8 minutes ago, Oldskool said:

At a snail's pace today but still making headway.

What paint and good work can accomplish, looks great! 

[Oldskool 6,582]

13 minutes ago, Maxwell-8 said:

What paint and good work can accomplish, looks great! 

It sould be all in and hooked up tomorrow. Maybe a test drive on sunday. Temperature permitting 

[Handy Don 10,613]

It looks very cool. Which engine did you settle on?

Gonna be plenty cold here in the NYC burbs for the next few days, and even a few inches snow in the forecast for Monday.

[Oldskool 6,582]

1 hour ago, Handy Don said:

It looks very cool. Which engine did you settle on?

Gonna be plenty cold here in the NYC burbs for the next few days, and even a few inches snow in the forecast for Monday.

It's still a OHV Briggs. I ended upgrading to 18hp from 16.5hp. The next few days are looking cold here too. Minus digest with the windchill tomorrow. It snowed 2in here today. Thursday is supposed to be sunny and 40 so I may wait till then. Not to say I wont open the garage doors and drive it out only the back it back in again.

[Oldskool 6,582]

I made it this far today.

[Handy Don 10,613]

4 minutes ago, Oldskool said:

It's still a OHV Briggs. I ended upgrading to 18hp from 16.5hp. The next few days are looking cold here too. Minus digest with the windchill tomorrow. It snowed 2in here today. Thursday is supposed to be sunny and 40 so I may wait till then. Not to say I wont open the garage doors and drive it out only the back it back in again.

Yep, 18 oughta be enough! I like the buckboard-style seat suspension, too. 

[Oldskool 6,582]

Just now, Handy Don said:

Yep, 18 oughta be enough! I like the buckboard-style seat suspension, too. 

Thanks

 I was trying to keep it from looking to clunky. Sometimes less is more.

[19richie66 16,944]

A most impressive build...... one of the more interesting I have seen on here in quite a while.   carry on.......

[rjg854 10,745]

top notch 

[Tractorhead 8,611]

It looks like out of a single cast,

perfection fit in Style.

 

Be curious how first ride will be.

after all that Work i’m sure, it just can be a Success.

But you know the Rulez...

 

or better Videos.. 😇

[Oldskool 6,582]

Just now, Tractorhead said:

But you know the Rulez...

 

or better Videos.. 😇

Oh there will be a video. Maybe 2 or 3

[Oldskool 6,582]

So I'm going back and forth with the color of the air filter housing. The color it is now or flat black. Any thoughts?

[SylvanLakeWH 24,155]

Looks great as is!

 

[wallfish 15,931]

4 minutes ago, Oldskool said:

color of the air filter housing

The Army would have painted everything green.

 

[Pullstart 59,735]

7 minutes ago, Oldskool said:

So I'm going back and forth with the color of the air filter housing. The color it is now or flat black. Any thoughts?

It’s got paint on it now... so get it running and change it later if you so chose 

[rjg854 10,745]

18 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

Looks great as is!

 

Agreed

[Oldskool 6,582]

16 minutes ago, wallfish said:

The Army would have painted everything green.

 

That's what I was thinking too. 

[ebinmaine 63,168]

Another vote for green...

[Handy Don 10,613]

1 hour ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

Looks great as is!

 

[71_Bronco 1,072]

I vote black, give a little contrast.

 

I'm surprised you don't have a second one kicking around you could paint black and try it on, with the amount of spare engines you have kicking around 

 

Very nice so far, excited to see the finished product and the videos of it tearing up the snow 

[Oldskool 6,582]

9 minutes ago, 71_Bronco said:

I'm surprised you don't have a second one kicking around you could paint black and try it on, with the amount of spare engines you have kicking around 

The problem is, this one is a custom design for this application. It's the only one I have. 

[Oldskool 6,582]

While waiting for it to get warm enough in here to paint I thought I would just screw around a bit. Considering this is a WWII era type build it probably should have a 6 volt battery. So this is my quick version of that. If it holds up, fine. If it doesnt, also fine. No love loss. A piece of dash from an old Murray mower and 3 oil quart caps and some Loctite mechanics grade adhesive. The battery had to be cleaned anyways.

[DennisThornton 4,769]

12 hours ago, Oldskool said:

That's what I was thinking too. 

Needs service decal later on.

[Oldskool 6,582]

1 minute ago, DennisThornton said:

Needs service decal later on.

Good thought. Wonder what that would look like?