Case 310B taredown/rebuild

[NH Mike]

After many nights of chipping and cleaning, the parts for the front end were getting cleaned and painted.

 

[NH Mike]

Then they were orange! I found that rustolium chevy orange engine paint is almost exactly the same as flambeau red. So I'm using chevy orange.

 

[NH Mike]

The shafts and bushings were way too worn to use as they were. So I bored the holes to restore roundness and turned new bushings and shafts. The shaft is stainless steel from a boat we had worked on. It ended up even better than I thought it would.

 

[NH Mike]

I made new parts for the spindles also. The photos look like they are different colors, it's just with and without a flash. The flash brings out the orange.

 

[NH Mike]

The front end was reassembled and installed onto the tractor. There has been a ton of hardware to clean or replace.

 

[NH Mike]

Cleaning and painting various brackets and parts.

 

[NH Mike]

Removed the dash and steering parts to clean them up.

 

[NH Mike]

Moved the tractor to my fathers shop, this is where I have my machining equipment. Didn't do much work (if any) on it this summer working on it a lot after the move. Cleaned up the fuel tank, radiator, dash etc. and have most of it back together. Getting ready to fire it up.

 

[NH Mike]

Got it running two days ago. It's been about a year and I'm excited to have it running. It sounds great.

I've started on the sheet metal, the dash had a rust hole that I just fixed. Here is the hole prior to repair.