slow but steady progress on HD16

Hello Friends

Between taking the old girl out to snort and push over a few trees in one of my fence rows, I continue to replace and repair parts for an eventual completed HD16DC reno. Wont be show quality like many shared on this site but for me it will be just enough to have everything working as it is supposed to and have a reliable runner.

I am putting back on the battery boxes that I had redone and they turned out like new. Very happy with them. Shooting final pain on them as soon as I get a warm non windy Michigan day. In prep for that, I made a new bracket and battery hold down set up incorporating a battery shut off switch. I like how it turned out.

I cut angle iron and primed and painted it and am bolting to floor of battery box and then running 1/2" bolts through the outside of the battery boxes so they are rock solid attached to the floor/fender and able to be used for pulling yourself up onto tractor. I will share those when I get the boxes ready to attach. Here are are the pics on the battery hold down set up I did. 2x8 boards are same width as the batteries. I used 1/2" threaded rod and bolted to the fender and up to the bracket. The bolts hold the threaded rod tight, and the wood board is locked in. I have heavy foam pads for under each battery for final install. Pads were what I use for inside horse boots so if heavy enough for a horse to stand on, should be good enough of the batteries.

I was also finally able to get dash lights and new headlights wired and working perfectly. Had to rewire the entire harness to get good connections. Original old wire split and many cracks.





Have a great week everyone.

Sugarmaker wrote: I liked you comment about pushing trees over that is one of the first things I did when I got my TD6 working! I think it is just part of owning one of these type of units, trees are in danger! BTW Battery hold downs looks very good. I like the idea of the battery shut off too! Regards,  Chris

   

Thank you Chris. Some great AC folks on this forum suggested and a shut off was stock for this tractor.

Thanks to Cal, Rick, Coke, aCMel and others. This is a great site.

Dan Hauter wrote: Good work.  Hope you enjoy rehab work on your HD16 and the old girl treats you right.

So far she is a real lady! Lol

Looks like a good fab project. I think I have a bungee holding my battery in place and the way they rock and roll sometimes that is probably not enough! I will need to add something like to the list of things to do. 

Well dang Jerry,  I will have to fix mine now.   Orginal hold downs are long gone but the extra oil jug , track wrench, gloves and random broken tree parts hold the batteries pretty well.

Edited by CAL(KS) - 16 Oct 2018 at 1:56pm