MF 14 rebuild

I did a rebuild on this MF 14 a couple years ago. I put a video together . I wish I could find another 14 or a 16 and do it again

Massey Ferguson 14

hello, I'm about to do a overhaul on a mf10 tractor sometime this summer. I just picked it up couple months ago and has the mower deck with it. Everything seems to be in decent shape and all there except the SSI coil on the engine.(another issue but I have found a fix). But I was wondering if you had any tips/pointers on the best way to repaint the whole tractor. Like anything that gave you troubles or something you wish you had done differently?

I'm planning to paint it the industrial massey yellow to match our two mf3165 tractors as if it was their little brother Haha. We needed him to do the small stuff that our others were a bit overkill for like hauling firewood, spike aerator, and other tasks that are to much for our riding lawnmower but to small for our tractors. And this guy also came with mower deck so we could also use it to mow as well but mostly we wanted it for the heavier hauling that these newer riding mowers rears cant handle.

Oh btw nice pics in the video looks nice can't wait to get mine started...

The most aggravating thing for me was definitely the painting. Once I had the tractor in pieces, I took several pieces and had them acid dipped. I would recommend it if you want to spend the extra $100. When all the sanding was done and ready to paint, I talked to 2 body shops about painting the tin work. Neither was interested. I ended up painting it with spray cans. I used Van Sickle brand paint. Available at our local farm supply store. It is a good color match, but, takes a long time to dry. It will be dry to the touch in a couple days, but even after a year, could be soft enough to easily scratch with your fingernail. It's been over 2 years now and I think the paint is finally hard. The main part of painting with cans is to paint in MANY, FINE, coats. You will do some scratching during reassembly, there is no way to avoid it. I rebuilt the deck a year later. Once it was disassembled and parts ready for paint, I did find a body shop willing to paint it. $400 I ended up painting it with cans also. Good Luck. Greg

what's the deal with the acid dip? What does that accomplish?

Im a "jack of all trades master of a few", and I feel that I'm pretty good at painting old equiptment. I have always sand blasted my stuff with a lil 20gal blaster($30 craigslist) filled with river sand that I sift with an aluminum window screen stapled to a 2x4 square. Haha. But I use a gravity fed paint gun that hooks to my air compressor. And I always mix my paint with with hardener and thinner and it dries pretty quick like maybe 12hrs and you could touch it and 24hrs you could practically eat off it. And it forms a hard glaze like surface once its dry, kinda like a porcelain dish feel. So that's how I plan to paint mine. I'm a poor boy that likes to scrape by on projects with as little over head as possible but with the best outcome possible with what I got available to me. But I don't really go cheap on the paint part hints why I got a paint gun so I can mix my own premium concoction. And that sandblaster was the best investment for my old equiptment restorations that I have been tackling. Takes paint off pretty good just have to refill blaster a few times for bigger projects.

But I'm very curious as to what the acid dip does for the project. It seems like a very expensive way to get the paint off.

and for my paint brand I dont really discriminate. I mostly use the stuff available at my farm and tractor store, majik brand for tractors and equiptment. And I mix it to these specific ratio for my paint gun: 12oz paint. 6oz acetone. 1.5oz hardener and that is my secrect concoction to great paint jobs. And I usually only do 2-3 coats depending on what I'm painting but for a tractor and stuff that gets bumped and abused I do 3 coats.

All I have available to me is my 2 car garage. I don't have a shop, a sandblaster, or a paint gun. This is the one and only project of this size I have done. All the "toys" wouldn't make sense for one project. If I had a shop or barn to do this type of stuff, then maybe I could justify all the goodies.

The acid dip gets rid of all paint, decals, and rust. Takes everything down to bare metal. Completely.

hmmm sounds fancy. What exactly is the acid that makes that happen? Do you know?

Since I have stepped into the sandblasting realm, small step with my setup of coarse haha. But I have looked up some other stuff online, they make a dry-ice blaster that basically freeze dries and removes dirt,grim,grease,oil, and whatever else without hurting the metal. But of coarse it's like a 2k setup to even do it. But the dry ice is pretty cheap stuff. I bought some to freeze shrink a part for another project.

But the river sand is 45 bucks for 5 tons in my dump truck so it's pretty cheap as well and that will go a long way.(for me anyway). Also, my small blaster is only 125psi max and my air compressor cant keep up so it does a pretty light duty job. so it doesn't pit anything but I can let pressure build up and hit it full blast to get heavy deposited areas so it works good for me and doesn't cost much. If you do random painting projects it's a good investment. But you will want a bigger one haha.

btw I dont even have a garage. I have a nice gravel driveway and some old mining conveyor belts for my portable "shop floor". You dont need a fancy shop, but it would be very nice Haha. I'd like to have a shop with a mechanic pit in the floor for working on trucks and tractors.