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Niel, Michael sent me an email and an invoice. I am just waiting for him to confirm that the invoice is for a copy of the signed one and the other copy as well. I have looked on Amazon for several weeks to no avail so thanks for the link.

All sorted.

I will email Michael as my first port of call. Thanks Andrew

Neil, thanks for the web link. I have registered but can't seem to load my trolley. Am I missing something obvious? Andrew

Page 103 got to be good to have three copies......

Nigel, thanks. Much appreciated. Andrew

Iain, Thanks again for the contacts. My email address is amidgley66@yahoo.co.uk I am definitely interested in the air filter assembly and can wait happily until you unearth it! You got a very interesting collection and you will certainly be a very useful chap to have on this forum. Cheers Andrew

Hello Iain, Welcome to the forum and thanks for some very useful pointers on my Bolens. I have the front cover for the engine and a damaged petrol tank. What I am looking for is an air filter assembly if you have one spare? I am also on the lookout for a mower deck as well? I am sure I will come across a few more issues. Cheers Andrew

I got a seat but it's knackered and will need replacing at some point. I was on EBay USA last night and even my model is a bit of a rarity over there so may now consider doing a sympathetic restoration once it's up and running. I have ordered a few bits and bobs so far. I am now on my first day of my holiday (hurrah!) and just been told our electricity bill for the last quarter is just under £1400....... Fortunately our supplier will investigate this anomaly and told us to enjoy our holiday! I told my wife that this is a case in point about not running an electric car due to these expensive problems; far better to run a thirst guzzling V8 engine......

The butterfly nut on the rear wheel is supposedly a diff lock! Apparently the operator just reaches over and switches the knob from the comfort of his seat. in my case, it will need freeing up with heat and liberal spraying of WD40!

Richard, no worries. Cheers

Thanks for sorting out the photos.

In between jobs today I had an opportunity to pressure wash the tractor and to give it a wax wash as well. are some photos of it after it has been washed. I will this evening give the tinware a wipe over withan oily rag. Not sure why the photos are upside down?! they not

As I fear (and as everyone knows on the forum) this is highly contagious and I feel the urge to buy another one.....

Yeah I am going to wipe the body work with an oily rag once I cleaned it off. I will find out if my brother went; I would have thought he would as it's a stone throw from his mansion..... As I fear (and as everyone knows on the forum) this is highly contagious and I feel the urge to buy another one.....

At the moment I am concentrating on getting her up and running and mobile. A part of me like the rat look, as our cousins across the Pond would say! I will have a better idea once I cleaned her off but she certainly need some work to halt the rust. I may dismantle her and have her shot blasted but that's another day. How was Sedlescombe?

I had a very productive few hours on my Bolens. She is structurally sound as I thought she would be; they certainly made robust tractor. I freed up the hand brake lever and the gears changes with a positive feel as well as the low and high box after liberally applying WD40. I pumped up the tyres to ease moving around the garage adm greased up the front; only one grease nipple was blocked. The PTO was also greased up and now turns freely. I will pressure wash the tractor another time. So far I need a battery, an exhaust, a set of front tyres and frustratingly part of the carb is missing. Also need to rewire the tractor as the loom is completely shot. Where is the best place to buy these from? Also if any Bolens owners with a similar tractor to mine could post up some photos of their engine bay so I can see what's missing and what goes where. So far a very satisfactory into in garden tractor ownership!

Nigel, many thanks for sorting this out.

Here's 2 photos of my Bolens tractor as bought. I will take better photos of it once I move it out to be pressure washed. There is surface rust but she seems solid enough and to appease the wife she will now be reprinted in appropriate colours to make her less of an 'eyesore' ive turned them the right way up, NIGEL

We got torrential rain coming tomorrow .......

Cheers for the colour. The 'red' colour is for the wheels, well they are on mine anyway!

I can recommend Paul Jenkins from Heathfield (Devon) to be a courier. His number is 07525900797

That's one great looking tractor and a good resto. What the name/code of the white and the red please.

It's here! Too dark to see the details. Will update with photos as bought. First impressions; a solid and heavy lump of Yank metal.