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And here's a shot of 'her' at a show in starke florida last weekend.
She's still got the oem 6v electrical system, and it works good.
I had a hard time finding the 4x12 front tires so went with 5x12.. even they were $pendy enough.
Unit had no sheet metal on it.. and that was the bulk of the repair cost. I got a repro hood, and a rear cowl from a slavage yard by mail order. The fenders and battery box/lid came from a farm/salvage yard in CA. Battery box was rusted out on the bottom. Took about 2 hours of grinder and welding to get it back into shape. I finally found a good use for a 110v stick welder and 1/16 rods!
Engine had a studebaker belt on it! It was old and ratty.. What came to more of a surprise was that a local carquest store was able to cross the number from the studebaker belt to a moder 'in stock' one. Boy was I happy.
Unit had one foot 'rest' that some previous owner made. i liked the design, and made a cardboard pattern and made an identical one for the other side. Again.. on that 3/16 plate.. a 110v stick welder and a 5/64 rod worked well.
Those fender I got were 'shortened' at some point, so I took a file and grinder to them and made their contours match. Won't pass as oem.. but looks ok.
I made the starter and choke pull rods ( they go thru the fenders) out of 1/8 rod stock from TSC.. I bent the finger looks around a large 1.25" pin and then tack welded them. One fender had a wallowed out hole where the rod goes thru so I tacked a small washer over it and smothed the edges.. looks good. works better than it looks.
Front steering box was clean and tight.. just needed lube, as wellas the front spindle bushings and front wheel bearings.
I was happy to see that the unit had the oem hydro pump and belt pulley on it. A nice addition.
I made some stand-offs to move the rear cowling out about a half inch to make extra clearance for a custom exhaust 'stack'. I like the look of it better than the pancake muffler.
It came with a woods belly mower that is ugly and rusty.. but actually works. All bearings and spindles are tight and spin freely, blade and carrier is good. It just needs lots of TLC and some weld repairs. I'll take that as a project this summer.
Also.. the paint is from TSC BPS paint, painted using a 14.99 chinese gun a 19.99 air filter and a 89$ chinese air compressor and an old 15$ air tank plumbed in for extra air storage! Not bad I'd say.
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