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Anyway, here we go:
This is what the old man looked like when I got 'im, on November the 1st 2009
This is not far from home, during the "bring him home" tour(which was 90km and took the best part of the 1st and 2 hours of the 2nd november)
New home, sweet home... In the old barn at my father's farm
Christmas gifts anyone? Since I'm relatively poor my father bought me some goodies(all except the truck starter which I got from dad's cousin)
Ford world series Force exhaust.
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My neighbor works as a laser operator, so after some measuring and drawing in solidworks I ended up sending him drawings of these things, to the right are the parts for an alternator mount, utilizing the alternator found in a Volvo 240
This is the 3D-model of my drawbar and upper 3pt lift reinforcement
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Amongst all the other things that got stripped off
December 8th 2009, a bit naked...
Paint really makes a difference
This replaced the original Temp/oil/gen clock, the orange indicator is my turn signal indicator.
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If all you have is two wrecked front cowls and a MIG-welder, sure you could make one that's acceptable?
Twisting, bending, welding and forming sheet metal is one of my favorites... The "bulge" is where my turn signal switch will reside.
Painted, "grill"'ed and lit up, since I would never put a loader on this tractor I placed the headlights wide apart, high up...
A severe case of "frost bite" perhaps?
Dis-assembly of the hydraulic system... or part of it, getting the flow control valve, spring and the "plug" out using a piece of wire loom through one of the bores inside.
The original spindles looked like this, no wonder I thought it was hard to steer straight...
Dad bought me this, the "universal fits all majors hydraulics kit", it lacked a few parts but those weren't that hard to get(and I got lots of O-rings leftover that actually came to use a little here and there)
The hydraulic pump with new seals, waiting to be re-assembled
Drilled and tapped a 3/8 pipe thread for my return pipe
Assembled and painted stuff
Raised PTO in place
The pump and the plumbing is back where it belongs
If you don't have a gasket set, you make them
Re-assembly of better looking parts
"New" old spindles, in much better condition and picked from a power major that had led a much better life(with an owner that knew to maintain his machinery properly)
I got myself the proper SPE4A75S model pump and gave it a little love
Proper hydraulics, at last...
And with good tools the work is a breeze
Changing the pedal shaft seals since they weren't weeping but rather "bleeding", no obvious play in the bushings tho
Changed the PTO seal before filling the rear up with oil
The original seat had seen it's share of action and I had another seat in mind and constructed this
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The parts for it
Welded up and testing the fit out
Regardless of how battered and bruised this seat looks, it's very comfortable and also has electrical heater elements in both the seat and the back rest
Quite some possibilities... and it came off an old golf-course lawn-mower, got it for free, me like lots :D
Drawings of new knobs for the valve chest(for those that wonder what "hitta på en bra radie här" means, in english it would be something similar to "figure out a good radius here")
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And about a week later, machined by one of dad's old work mates
Sometimes buying these connectors can be a royal pain, if you find one that fits the cable you can be sure the screw-hole is abnormally large and the head of your screw will fall through it, that's why I made my own ones from brass and soldered the cables to it
I did off with the broken pipes and replaced them with hard and reinforced rubber hoses instead
3D-model of the trailer outlet bracket
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Laser-cut, bent, welded up and painted
Part of the electrical system's innards
Upper connection for my engine heater
And the lower one
A sensible start button, turn the key on and the button lights up, press it to start the engine and once the alternator starts charging it will dim indicating "Do not press me"
The view from the seat
Paint and a bit of sanding later
The circlips didn't want to stay put and the throttle shaft moved up and down rather than increasing or decreasing the engine speed, so I fixed that up with split pins instead, now it won't budge
Also took the time to fix my leaking return line up, one of the brass banjos was entirely loose and all were leaking, number four injector was also leaking between the "foot"(lower that is bolted to the head) and the "head"(upper hexagon bit) part, so while having all of the pipes and connectors off anyway I torqued it down and it seems to have worked just fine
Reinforcements to withstand forest (ab)use
CNC-machined bolts for the upper part of the 3pt lift...
The heart of the electrical system completed, relays and everything is fused off
Corrected what I regarded a design flaw in the stop control, now it is firm and exact rather than "flimsy"
After being taken for a little trip I shot this photo outside, engine idling, my dog badly wanted to ride with me
Hard-to-melt-candy, we took a good look of the original stabilizer chains and dad and I ordered these instead
Well, steering wheel knob and a "flamethrower", I am equipping my major with thermostart
The rear end is beginning to look like something
A small handmade fuel valve instead of the outlet bleed screw on the filter(previous owner had wrecked the threads anyway), the outlet from this one will be used to fill up the heater tank if necessary
And here's the heater tank as well, two pipes at the top; one from the valve on the filter and one from the fuel return, pipe on the side goes to fuel tank and the long pipe going out the bottom goes to the heater plug
Now we're getting somewhere...
Well, this wednesday(march 31st 2010) dad picked me up these
