Repainting a tractor? any ideas/experience

jdmar · Jan 29, 2004

Nice job VON, and thanks to all for the info. I am real happy to hear the block should do just fine with heat/paint cocern. And I really want to try the tire paste soap--sounds perfect for making a tractor look decent and not spending forever doing needless dissasembly.

Now I do have to be honest here...my wife (who wil be the main user of this tractor for pulling the gang mowers) wants the Yanmar painted like the John Deere. Sorry folks it is going from faded and a bit rusty red/grey to new green and yellow. I'll send before and after pics in several months if y'all don't hate me now! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Soundguy · Jan 29, 2004

To be honest... I saw a yanmar 1500 painted JD colors about a year ago. It wore them well. I also saw a ford 8n with those colors... now that was a clash...

Soundguy

Whiskey · Jan 29, 2004

Jdmar:

Like soundguy said they don't look bad at all in JD color's, infact there's a couple on E-bay now to look at

SPIKER · Jan 29, 2004

jmr:

yes the trusses were on-site fab: though I didn't put up the main structure, I'm only 1 guy with a few fair weather friends and 2 brothers who work too much to help. I had a local amish crew errect the main setup and I'm doing all the finish work myself. with 1 brothers help.

also look here

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=buildit&Number=369107&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=all&fpart=1&vc=1&PHPSESSID=

it is a rust remove info form other page. has a very cool way to remove rust! it should not effect slightly painted material only the rusty parts of it!!!! .

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Renze · Jan 31, 2004

Me and my brother have repainted about 5 or 6 tractors.

We buy old Zetors to refurbish in winter time. On these Zetors, we usually take the bonnet and fenders off, these are sprayed red. The main tractor body is sprayed in a dark shade of green.

Because the fuel tank and dash is mounted over the steering column, we leave that in place and tape it up with old newspapers when the main tractor body is sprayed dark green. The fenders and hood are sprayed individually in the orange red colour.

The wheel rims are sprayed individually, in white colour. to prevent paint from contaminating your tires, put some grease on the edge of the tires, so that you can scrape off the grease with paint after the spraying.

When the wheels are off, we put the tractor on wooden blocks or oldfashioned milk cans. (the heavy milk cans they used 40 years ago, before tank truck transport was introduced)

We clean the whole tractor with a pressure washer, and only the sheet metal parts are grinded with sandpaper.

Henro · Jan 31, 2004

Renze,

Like to see a photo or two of your work if you happen to have one handy... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Renze · Jan 31, 2004

Sorry, at the moment i dont have any pictures on hand.

..Maybe when i have searched the big pile, i find some...

We have resprayed:
Zetor 5718
Ursus C-385-A (the polish copy of the Zetor 8045)
McCormick 523
Zetor 2011
Deutz D50
Zetor 6718

I might have some photos of the D50, 6718 and C-385-A ..??

jdmar · Jan 31, 2004

SPIKER and RENZE, thanks for the info. I had actually just recently found that "battery charger rust removal" a few days ago. i thought is was a neat idea myself...especially for the small parts. I wonder how well it would work in a larger tank with only a smallish charger (? whole tractor at once!?) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif. Hopefully today I will get out to the barn and start a bit of dissasembly.
Peter

tawilson · Feb 1, 2004

"Pressure wash the entire machine and disassemble as little as you can."
That's exactly what I do. Then I mix some Rustoleum with paint thinner and spray whatever I'm working on. You can buy it in factory colors. I'm wondering if I should be using hardener in it too. It seems to work ok, but I'm thinking maybe the shiny finish would last longer. I just want it to look presentable from 26 feet away. Or 34 feet, I'm not fussy.