Earliest 66?

RBoots

Well-known Member
Here's my 66, S/N 420009, which I believe
would make it the 9th one made. It came
off a hay farm in the UP of MI. I can't
remember for sure, but I believe the
family of the guy I bought it from were
the owners of the tractor since new. I
put rebuilt the engine, new pistons and
sleeves, etc, and I've replaced every
seal and gasket on the tractor except for
the seal at the bottom of the front
steering bolster. Still 6V system. I
rewired it. I'm not a painter, so I just
stripped the paint and left it in primer.
I didn't strip the rims, hood, fenders,
drawbar, or nose cone, but did do most
everything else, probably 75% of it
anyway. Looks like heck, but oh well, I
have other projects I need to get to. I
cut the spot welds on the dash and
sandblasted all of the dash pieces where
they rust and ruin the rear dash cowl.
The tag was in very bad shape, half torn
off, so I took it off and was going to
have a new one made, but then I was
advised to put the old one back on for
originality, so that's what I did.

Ross
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Scooter, I'm not sure, I guess I was just
curious if anyone had one that was
earlier

Ross
 
I had a 66 serial was just 420059 so it was 50 builds after yours.wonder how many days apart that was?
It was like yours belt pully,live pto no hydraulics
 
Suppose that seat was an option back then?
Mine had bad rubber springs,previous owner drilled holes in the 2 arms that came down put eye bolts in the holes and put a stiff spring in .it held my heavy 200 pound carcass up and rode nice
 
I don't think the Bostrum came out until later. I would just about bet that one of Ross's had the early seat and was changed later. I can remember seeing old pictures of 77s with the rigid seat.
 

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