For $500 you get. . .

Well, with the good comes some oops.
See if I remember how to post pics. . .

Here we have a "Strong Box" 6V battery.
Deader than a post I suspect and not going to waste time trying to make it work.



next pic is a bit strange. Isn't the tool box suppose to be under the lid? Loose wire anyone?



next pic is possibly an undersized batt cable that grounds out on the lower dash bracket. Barely. With the same loose wire that still needs a home.



next pic... A light switch and the home for the loose wire. Just great. I also get to tear this toy apart to eliminate the "Canary" yellow paint. Throughout.



next pic is uh... Steering arms!! To go along with the stiff steering (upper bearing? Blown bearing cage inside?) the steering arms are not straight across from each other.



next pic is the remnants of a steering wheel.



next pic is a shiny carb. Supposedly a part (in the carb?) took 6 months to order and then upon installation it broke.
The hand throttle is loosey goosey also.



next pic is a grease stain on the side if the bell housing that needs a hole drilled in it.



next pic is a Sherman Combo needing assembly and now had a future home.



So I have yet to pull plugs and oil the cylinders. Drain the clean looking oil, new filter, new battery, turn engine by hand first, crank over with plugs out, drain off gas tank. I should have already done that. Oops. Change out trans fluid, fill with 303 I believe, uh...
File the points, check the gap real fast and turn the key.
After cleaning off the excess oil that blows out, install the plugs, new ones that are not rusted and fire it off.





Last pic is a leaking brake drum. I can wobble the wheel on the axle shaft and see clearance. I guess I have another 8N around here, 2? 3? that will be donating parts towards this machine running again.
Suggestions, opinions and laughter accepted. I even braved the wife's scorn when I told her I bought another tractor.
Now to figure out what implement I will put behind it.

Just finished putting some blades on a little 3 pt disc. It is yellow, mostly. Would look good behind Tweety.

You got one heck of a deal there! As to the tool box issue, having it mounted on the rear fender instead of under the hood does make it easier to get to your draw pins and hitch clips when you are hooking up implements. Once the toolbox is removed from under the hood when the voltage regulator was replaced it is a lot easier to mount it in the space where the tool box was than where the voltage regulator normally sits. When I bought my 1950 8N it was missing the tool box but had a regulator mounted in its spot. I have since moved the regulator to the correct spot and installed the correct tool box. When I was living on the farm in the 60's and 70's we had both a 9n that had the tool box mounted on the fender and an 8N that had the under hood mounted tool box. The 9N box was a lot easier to access.

Bruce, the initial cost of that 8N is quite a bit more than $500 once you "un-peeve" the wife

Hiya Arlen.
The wife desires me to sell this once it gets running.
Yeah.
That might not happen.
I suppose you could buy it and take over the mountain for a resale.
I just found a slight bump in monthly income and sale of that machine might be in the future sometime.
Once I find a brush hog for it.
In another year or two. . .three. . .
Well dear, you said you wanted to learn to paint. . . .Here ya' go.

Fixin a 5 ft hog right now. Can stop and sell it to you and let you fix it and paint it to match Tweety.

Think I will hold off on that a few days. Tweety needs to run first. I did drain the gas tank down and it has a black film inside the tank.
Looks like I get to pull the tank out to really clean it out.
Your email is supposedly not on file for this site.

That might take awhile. I am looking at another machine right now. She ought'a flip on that one.
But if she doesn't. . .

Well dear, you said you wanted to learn to paint. . . .Here ya' go.

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LMAO! :lol: