Johndeere3720
Padawan Tractor Learner, Advertiser
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- Bobcat T62, MT55, E42R, E10, John Deere 4100
Excellent job! Cant wait to see it back in Yanmar red. :thumbsup:
YM336D Restoration thread - Part two
- Thread starter Domush
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Domush
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Great "resurrection" ..... you will have looking so nice you won't want to use it
I'm a bit worried about that :laughing:
I'll have to live with taking a photo of it before I use it for the first time and referring back to it when I wish to recall why I spent so much freaking time working on it.
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Domush
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It has been a few days, but I haven't stopped working. There simply hasn't been much obvious progress. Mainly a whole lot of coats of paint. It seems single coats just scratch right off at the lightest touch, so I'm going for 2-3 coats.
Also, this is taking way more paint than anticipated, so multiple trips into town have been needed to re-buy supplies. Town isn't exactly close to me here in stixville
I painted the roof white in the hopes to keep the interior bright on those days where I cruise along into the dusk. I may add some LED light strips to the interior in the future, if needed. The white should make nice ambient light without killing night vision too badly.
I removed the front from the hood in preparation for the new headlights and mount. At first I was going to be lazy and only paint the outside, but seeing as I have it removed..
It was precarious, but both rear tires are off at once for painting. Otherwise I'd have to reload the paint gun with multiple colors, which would be annoying.
The hood had some major dentage going on, and I was going to leave it be, but there were some rust holes I wanted to fill, so out came the sander and body filler.
A better angle of the dents, after some rough pounding out. The filler should be enough beyond this point.
I forgot how quickly body filler hardens! At 90F I had about 1:15 to work with it. Sheesh! This is the section with the rust holes.
Before, during and after shots.
I have a love/hate relationship with body filler. Today I love it.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully be finishing up the painting of the body parts and starting on the headlight assembly and wiring.
Also, this is taking way more paint than anticipated, so multiple trips into town have been needed to re-buy supplies. Town isn't exactly close to me here in stixville
I painted the roof white in the hopes to keep the interior bright on those days where I cruise along into the dusk. I may add some LED light strips to the interior in the future, if needed. The white should make nice ambient light without killing night vision too badly.
I removed the front from the hood in preparation for the new headlights and mount. At first I was going to be lazy and only paint the outside, but seeing as I have it removed..
It was precarious, but both rear tires are off at once for painting. Otherwise I'd have to reload the paint gun with multiple colors, which would be annoying.
The hood had some major dentage going on, and I was going to leave it be, but there were some rust holes I wanted to fill, so out came the sander and body filler.
A better angle of the dents, after some rough pounding out. The filler should be enough beyond this point.
I forgot how quickly body filler hardens! At 90F I had about 1:15 to work with it. Sheesh! This is the section with the rust holes.
Before, during and after shots.
I have a love/hate relationship with body filler. Today I love it.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully be finishing up the painting of the body parts and starting on the headlight assembly and wiring.
From the beginning of this project to now has been most interesting. The starting point was really quite bad. You are going to end up with a nice tractor. I do believe you are a man of patience! :thumbsup:
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Domush
Platinum Member
Thanks for the compliments, fellas. I really appreciate them. I wouldn't have even made it out of the gate without all of your help. I'm sure I'll really need you guys when it comes time to split the tractor in order to remove the bad 1st and 2nd gears. Splitting a tractor just sounds daunting.
If it ever gets below 100F outside today, I'll actually get some work done.
If it ever gets below 100F outside today, I'll actually get some work done.
Johndeere3720
Padawan Tractor Learner, Advertiser
- Joined
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- Bobcat T62, MT55, E42R, E10, John Deere 4100
Wow, great job on the body work! Wanna do my Yanmar next?
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Domush
Platinum Member
Quick update.
I finished the painting the other day. Now I'm working on the new headlight mount and wiring up the new horn and lights (both switches and wiring were missing).
Making the new headlight assembly required some exacting cuts, as not only is it a tight fit with little overlap, but the grill is curved.
I'm also adding some wood siding on the hood itself. Sort of an homage to the old Woody wagons, as it serves no actual function. I'd love to figure a way to burn 'YANMAR' into the wood siding using a nice bold italicized font.
After a couple of coats of poly.
Tomorrow I have to do some web work, but hopefully I'll have a few to add the last few coats of poly and make up a bracket to affix the new headlights to the new mount. If all goes well, Friday I'll be wiring it all up and mounting the new horn.
I finished the painting the other day. Now I'm working on the new headlight mount and wiring up the new horn and lights (both switches and wiring were missing).
Making the new headlight assembly required some exacting cuts, as not only is it a tight fit with little overlap, but the grill is curved.
I'm also adding some wood siding on the hood itself. Sort of an homage to the old Woody wagons, as it serves no actual function. I'd love to figure a way to burn 'YANMAR' into the wood siding using a nice bold italicized font.
After a couple of coats of poly.
Tomorrow I have to do some web work, but hopefully I'll have a few to add the last few coats of poly and make up a bracket to affix the new headlights to the new mount. If all goes well, Friday I'll be wiring it all up and mounting the new horn.
Quick update.
I finished the painting the other day. Now I'm working on the new headlight mount and wiring up the new horn and lights (both switches and wiring were missing).
Making the new headlight assembly required some exacting cuts, as not only is it a tight fit with little overlap, but the grill is curved.
I'm also adding some wood siding on the hood itself. Sort of an homage to the old Woody wagons, as it serves no actual function. I'd love to figure a way to burn 'YANMAR' into the wood siding using a nice bold italicized font.
After a couple of coats of poly.
Tomorrow I have to do some web work, but hopefully I'll have a few to add the last few coats of poly and make up a bracket to affix the new headlights to the new mount. If all goes well, Friday I'll be wiring it all up and mounting the new horn.
I see a new parts supplier in our future - that dash cluster is beyond cool.