1967Craftsman's 40 #51 Posted April 12, 2022 This is all for now, more to come soon....... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1967Craftsman's 40 #52 Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) Hi folks, I got a few more updates on the tractor since my last post. A couple days ago this past Tuesday I got it out for the very first time since I bought it this past December to have my stepdad help me get the battery box off and to also get the voltage regulator off to see what it looks like, because I could not get them off myself as mentioned in post 45. That day after the rest of the box was taken off I brought it down to my fabrication place I am having make the piece for the top of the box. Let's start with taking the rest of the battery box off, which we sadly had to grind both the screw heads down to nothing to get it off...... Edited April 22, 2022 by 1967Craftsman's Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1967Craftsman's 40 #53 Posted April 22, 2022 Here is an update on the voltage regulator, it's off now but 2 screws broke off in the process....... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1967Craftsman's 40 #54 Posted April 22, 2022 LATEST battery box update. As mentioned a couple posts ago this past Tuesday I brought the rest of the battery box to my local fabrication place where I am having the top piece for the box made, I am now very happy to report that those pieces are made and I brought them home today and I think they came out great! Just the littlest things can make a big difference. Now we just have to cut the old rusty pieces out and weld the new pieces in...... This is all for now, more to come soon...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1967Craftsman's 40 #55 Posted May 28, 2022 Hi folks, I got somewhat of an update on the tractor, and there is story behind this one. I took the seat off the tractor a month ago to work on the voltage regulator and the battery box and just left it off to eventually sand it down, primer it, paint it, and have it reupholstered. I thought to myself a couple weeks ago when it was a very warm temperature and sunny day out that "today is gonna be that day", OR so I thought. I was taking the nuts and bolts out of the seat with a ratchet and socket to sand it down with my stepdads DA or dual action sander/polisher, and my stepdad says to "just grind them off it will be faster" so we did. When we grinded the nuts and bolts off the seat we noticed that the crack in the middle of the seat just so happens to be so to speak "bondoed" or patched with brass, I say it is bondoed or patched with brass because we took the grinder and put the wheel on and it did not create any sparks. See 1st photo below. Anyway as a separate note if you look at my 2nd picture, when we grinded the nuts and bolts off the seat there was a non original plate that the nuts and bolts were holding onto. I say the plate is not original to the seat because I looked at the bottom of my 10 horsepower Craftsman seat and it is different like in the 3rd picture, and just to verify if it is like the 3rd picture I looked at my stepdads 10 horsepower Craftsman and it was the same thing. That said right now the plan of action is to...... 1) Sandblast the whole seat from the tractor, 2) Have the local fabrication shop I had make my battery box pieces fix the seat and make the correct piece for the bottom, 3) primer, then paint the seat black, 4) then have it reupholstered in the same pattern as my 10 horsepower seat. Wish me luck! What the bottom of my seat SHOULD be, (photo courtesy of a seller on Ebay 2022)...... 1 Stormin reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1967Craftsman's 40 #56 Posted May 28, 2022 This is all for now, more to come soon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1967Craftsman's 40 #57 Posted June 30, 2022 Hi everybody, Not much of an update on the tractor. I just ain't done much to it lately because I ain't had time with work and working on the 10 horsepower Craftsman and everything else goin' on. Nothin has changed on the tractor since my last post so you maybe wonderin' why the heck I'm postin, well I'll tell ya. This is the reason here below in the pictures, and a special thank you goes to my stepdads brother for this. It's an NOS SW amp gauge from Napa with the bracket, nuts, instructions and everything. Sad thing is it goes to 30 where as the original one to the tractor goes to 10, but that is ok. The plan for this right now is to store it for a spare in case I need it if the original doesn't work or won't shine up when I polish the chrome edges where you will see it, or use it for another project. This is all for now, more to come hopefully soon...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1967Craftsman's 40 #58 Posted December 6, 2022 Hi Everyone, I got a lot of updates on the tractor which I will hopefully post soon, but I just wanted to let everyone know that today is the 1 year anniversary of when I bought it from the member of MyTractorForum. Thanks again to him for letting me buy it before he sold it to someone else, it means a lot. Here is what it looked like on his trailer below before I bought it and started tearing it apart as shown on page 1 of this post....... Here is the tractor a year later below almost all torn apart and ready for sandblasting, and priming, and painting. I can't beleive it went from the above photos to the below photos in just a years time, and I can't believe that much progress has been made in that short of time looking back at it. Granted there is a lot more to do and take apart. I hope to and the plan is to have the tractor completely restored and back together late 2023 early 2024...... 1 Stormin reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
