And to toss on a couple pics of one of the other ghost tractors I was painting.

So to follow up. I did tear down the engine. It was stuck pretty good. Put it back together with some spare parts I had on the shelf. Working on getting it running now. Got the compressor freed up. Wasn't stuck hard. Hopefully it will work. Couldn't find a head gasket for it so I made one. Crossing ...

52 race gun, PM sent!

Thanks! It's been soaking in 50/50 acetone/ATF since March. Tried a couple times to free it but I think it's going to require tearing down and possibly pressing the pistons out. Tried to stick a scope down in through the spark plug but couldn't get a good picture of the inside. Should have done that...

Fitting for Halloween, I was building my Ghost Fleet! I blasted and primed 3 tractors this round. I preferred gray primer, but all they had was white. It worked well. I painted one of them in color so far, Minneapolis Moline Prairie Gold, Yellow slightly orange. The white primer what nice to paint t...

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Fenders. Unfortunately someone had stripped and repainted the hood at some point. So all evidence of old lettering was gone.

Starting sand blasting

Restoration In progress! Kind of doing it a bit backwards. It's currently locked up but I went ahead and did as much prep work for paint as I could before the weather got bad. Nice to paint outside if I can. Sandblasted and Primed couple weeks ago. The engine is stuck but I have all good blocks, pis...

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It's an interesting piece. Has a full aux compressed air system and air brake controls, tank, compressor, service and emergency air lines. All Bendix-Westinghouse components. Runs off the fan belt. The dual wheels are factory. Has a pintle hitch.

So I'm restoring a 1953 military tractor (used like a tug for air force), Minneapolis Moline UTIL-M, and it has a shielded ignition system. I looked at my 53 M-37 and there are a lot of similarities! Big difference is the tractor has a magneto, American-Bosch. It's a 4 cylinder. The plug wires that ...

Sent. This forum has saved me tons of money in trial an error! Least I can do is toss a few buck back.

Mine filled the air cleaner elbow just like mentioned above when the fuel PSI was too high. Was about 4 1/2 psi. Dialed it back to about 3 and seems good now. I adjusted it with the top off the carb. Needle valve was leaking by and stopped with the lower pressure. It was kind of like that spring on ...

Electric fuel pump?

I put on an electric pump and it was too much pressure and over took the float needle valve. Put a regulator in the line, dialed it back to about 3psi and all is good now.

I just used Loctite. Don't know if I will regret that, but the only screw I could find was an Allen head. And didn't have a hole drilled for wire, and I didn't attempt to drill one as it was a pretty hard metal. I did toss the set screw on my lathe and turned the tapered end so it fit nice. I'm bank...