Grandfathers CA

Is there suppose to be one on the right brake??

The days work!!!  As noted above the first coat of paint on the transmission, differential, PTO, hydraulics and belt pulley.

First, cleaned up the rear wheel hubs.  Scraped off the grease and dirt, used a sanding drill bit, this small wire brush to clean up the small areas.  Took it down to the old paint or metal.  Then the orbital sander and hand sanding to finish off the hub.  Top picture is after cleaning with the sanding drill bit.  Still need to sand with the orbital sander.  Below is the other side after cleaning up the dirt and grease.  Now taking the drill and sander to finish up.

Ready for paint

Final coat of paint.  As well, the final coat on the transmission, differential and final drive and final drive tube.  And yes see the seat and spring primed.  Need to see if I can find a new shock absorber.

A bit more rust clean up then ready to finish painting the transmission, differential and final drive.

Final coat of paint.  Looks awesome.  May need a bit of touch up since we are always seeing some little corner or edge that need a bit more.

Also did wire weld a crack in the fender.  Yep did burn through and needed to fill... thus now need to grind off the excess weld.  Then hammered out the dents and sanded them smooth with orbital sander.  Also was also able to take off the remaining rust with the orbital sander.

Also cleaned, sanded and hammered out dents on the other fender, then the hood and platform. Did spend a bit of time bending the platform into shape, since it was bent to remove from the family CA.  We bent this since we were not able to remove the lift shafts due to rust.  Was easy to straighten.  All were then primed.  May need a bit of bondo here and there.

Otherr fender.

Here cleaned and sanded seat with a coat of primer.

Thank you.  Is still fun and very rewarding to complete each step.  I also go in waves with items.  I need to finish this up in Aug, thus the final push underway.  Then I need to catch up on a few other things that I have ignored!!! 

It is fun to buy things .  Then when all parts are ready, you are more efficient when you restart!!

  

Thank you to Lon Saeger who has been a great resource and was able to find me a right sided brake lock.  . 

Here is Lon's web site.  What an impressive collection. http://lonsallischalmers.com/

A little paint and it will be part of the family CA!!

And the right hydraulic hose. Swivel connectors that Steve tagged worked awesome!

Here is the pic of the day.  Was productive and fun to do.  Sat and looked at the progress, which of course involved a couple of IPA's...... just to admire the success of the day!  Was fun!!

On Thursday, we will also finish up the rear wheel rims and hit them with the black paint.

Your making great progress on the CA! Thanks for the updates. You have helped me move a little off center and start some work on ours!

 Regards,

 Chris and Cheryl

Then taped them and put on the first coat of black paint. Will put on another coat tomorrow.  Want to assemble the rear wheels on Saturday.  Thus, may need to use the heat gun to make sure it is dry.< id="idg-io-safe-browsing-enabled" ="" oninit="true">

And yes, some overspray on the gear shift.  Thus, will repaint that black this weekend.

Paint on the right brake lock.

Also just realized that we have not needed any "Oil-Dri" now that here are no leaks. 

I did sand the rear wheel rims and put on another coat of paint.  Also looked around and found a few other spots to sand.  Then a bit more orange paint.