It has been a while since I posted on here. I have attached a few pictures of the progress we have made. Finally looking like something. We have discovered that this tractor has been cobbled together for years. Mismatched bolts, fine thread nuts crammed onto course thread bolts and the list goes on and on. I found a loose bolt inside of the water pump housing. Who knows how long that had been in there!
I included one picture from our first weekend of teardown for comparison...
I included one picture from our first weekend of teardown for comparison...