Rebuilding my 100

[litlmikeyl]

Was able to spend all day working on the Cub. My sheetmetal was blasted a while ago and has since sat in a box and began to surface rust. I spent the day getting that taken care of so I can shoot primer & sealer tomorrow. Fixed a few welds on the fan shroud too.

Re-Ground Tank & Blasted Tank Rest


Burned-Thru Welds on Fan Shroud


Welds after being ground down


Ready for paint!!

[Methos]

Mike that's looking great!

[ACecil]

Awesome job, Mike! Look sharp.

[jbrewer]

Shoot all that shiny metal with clear acrylic and you could be the next star of Pimp My Ride !

[litlmikeyl]

Spent another full day with the Cub on Sunday. Was able to shoot the etch primer & sealer on all of the motor sheetmetal and the block too. Turned out as good as I hoped for. I'll shoot the color & clearcoat when I can do everything at the same time so I can have the same shade throughout the tractor. There are more pictures from the day (I took a bunch!) and they are up on my Photobucket page. There's a link at the bottom.
















http://s1102.photobucket.com/albums/g456/litlmikeyl/

[Methos]

Very nice Mike! Keep up the great work!

[ACecil]

Good job, Mike! Thanks for the pics.

[litlmikeyl]

A bit more progress. The motor is back together with no gaskets & put back in the frame so I can fab up the items for the hyd. lift system and work on some other things. Thinking all thats left is the steering & the lift and then I can blow everything apart again and paint it for the last time.

The steering has me baffled. I need to replace the tube that the steering shaft is in and can't figure out how to get it out of the gearbox. A front wheel bearing doesn't fit in the top of the tube (the tube's I.D. is too big) and I want to replace it with something else. Any suggestions??

[ACecil]

Looking good! The 100 is coming along.

[litlmikeyl]

It's been awhile since I've posted an update, so here's the scoop so far.

- Got the motor & associated sheetmetal painted & cleared. Waiting for some fasteners to come from McMaster Carr to get it back together. Also waiting on a new flywheel as mine jumped off the crank while the motor was sitting on the engine stand and it landed on the floor. Broke a few fins off and now it sounds different; a dull sound when you tap it with a wrench. Thinking its cracked internally. Not going to chance it.

- Ordered & received a bunch of parts from Chris to put the tractor back together. As always, better-than-excellent service in regards to my order.

- Ordered & received a sleeve hitch, lower brackers w/ears & some hitch plates from Aaron. Everything except the hitch plates have been painted and finished. Oh my gosh, you talk about quality. He called me to say my order would be late because one of the brackets wasn't good enough for his standards. I patiently waited for it all to come (very short wait) and was more than pleased with what arrived. He will definitely get my business again.

- Took an old pair of coarse-spline axles that were laying around and drilled out the lug holes, ground down the welds flush on the hub plate (on the tractor too) and cut off the splines and turned them into stub axles to hang weights on.

- Picked up a 55 gal. poly drum with a resealable top (it hang the metal band to capture the drum & top together) to use as an electrolysis tank. It's just sitting now, haven't done anything with it yet.

- Haven't started on the hyd. lift system as of yet. Will get the tractor in usable condition and build that on the side so I can swap it in when its all done.

My picture folder for the tractor has increased in size by roughly a third (there's over 200 pictures in there now) since the last time I posted, so here's the link to those.

http://s1102.photobucket.com/profile/litlmikeyl

Enjoy fellas.