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Well I think I will let that j engine sit on the shelf. I will get that plate done and on its way soon. Clint is going to be in SC next week and he is stopping buy on the way threw. I will send the brackets with him. They might be like the gaskets thew we may never see them again They will be on the way soon.

Thanks to all for looking but as time was moving on I got the welding gear out, made shaped paper templates , cut the sheet steel and stitched it in . A bit of a faff but got there eventually. 09CB57EA-B035-408E-A74F-0592215D7A02.MOV

Enjoyed talking with you too. My wife is the same way. I just tell her she needs a hobby then she won't care. LoL Looks great! And thanks again for your help. And you might as well just send me that little NOS engine too!

Well i've looked high and low and I can't find it anywhere. I'm normally pretty good at remembering where parts are and I can't recall seeing one since before we moved 5 years ago

You should have grabbed it, wrung it's neck and popped it in the chimera.

Didn’t expect to see this chap looking over my fence at 11.30 am

Yep but you imagine rubbing that lot down priming it all then paint, hours and hour of work and would still cost me money, so why it was away I serviced 2 ride-ons and that payed for it 😄

Had another wild animal today.

Where do I start

I’ve had a massive problem with the bonnet I can see why John Deere went to plastic, this one is fibre glass and the gel coat is none existent every time you flat it strands of fibre glass fall out and it leaves a spiderweb pattern and it looks like big grooves in it I’ve flattened and primed it 3 times now But on a brighter note all my powder coating came back and I’ve started to put the deck back together

This is on ebay It does not look like he ships international but if your interested I would buy it and ship it to you. have no idea what it would cost to ship but let me know. here is asking 15.00 plus 8.61 shipping to me

Had a few hours on the green engine today, it proved a problem to start after cleaning the carb so after fitting new points and plug cap and cranking it with an electric drill petrol started running out the carb. Another strip down revealed a hole in the float so with that changed it finally fired up. Had it running for about an hour with no smoke or rattles so the engine sounds good but still having trouble with the idle so I'm going to fit another carb tomorrow and see if it improve's.

Well it’s in bits

No there’s no rot in fact it’s the cleanest 70s tractor I’ve seen

Nice little project, at least it’s not hanging with rot.

This tractor has got to be one of the hardest I’ve every tried to take to bits, it’s a bastard most nuts arnt captive and you just can’t get at them, you unbolt something try to pull it off and then find it’s welded as well, this is going to be very interesting. 🙄 Can’t even get the engine out without dismantling all the body

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here are a few of my collection very early hayter with Villiers vortex machine no 300 ish cant remember exactly early hayter with split grassbox and crankstart ransomes tornado with Clinton 2 stroke engine very early rotoscythe county sorry there all the pictures are round the wrong way not very good with pooters