Before And After-Friends UTU MM

1206SWMO · Dec 25, 2015

Heres before and after pictures of a friends UTU MM....It came from about 20 miles north of me...The motor was in decent shape so only got rings and a valve job..I took this picture yesterday in his huge shed filled with over 100 restored tractors..

My friend wasn't a MM man but in late 2012 I talked him in to getting a ZB which he restored....Now he has the U,UB,GB,and two R's..He had to admit that they look pretty nice..

Heath72 · Dec 26, 2015

What a huge improvement. I just got my 1951 U running after sitting for who knows how many years. It has 4-3/8" M&W pistons and 4210 heads. Sounds real nice with a repro MM muffler. I wish the decal suppliers would include a decal placement guide for the various years of MM tractors. I've seen many nicely restored Molines with the decals just randomly slapped on here and there. Seems to be a bigger issue with the MM's. Most of the red and green tractors you see at the shows have the correct decals and placement.

Ill John · Dec 26, 2015

Heath, At one time, the Mohrs in Vail, IA published a decal placement guide. Think it's on the MM Collectors site.

The Dukester · Jan 8, 2016

That looks like a real nice job "prettying up" that tractor. I did the same thing to our '47 UTU several years ago, but it looks kinda tired again now, the darned prarie gold paint I bought was not very good I guess...and I think maybe I didn't put on enough coats either. That color was a new one for me, even though I've painted quite a few John Deere yellow wheels. Where really is a good source of the paint for Minneapolis's of the 40's era?

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