My official LT12 Rebuild/Repaint Thread

Well, I'm off! :congrats:

I tore the thing down quite a ways today, she's pretty much just frame and wheels.



Down to the frame!





The 1254 is now serving as cart puller for now,


Even took some paint off!


I got these done today, tomorrow I'll do the seat pan. That'll have me sore!


And I even put a coat of primer on to boot!


Now, I only did the undersides, or faces that won't show. My hood that I painted has a bit of a sandy feel wherever I used primer. I eve did a test on an area with and an area without primer. The area without came out nice and smooth. What do I do to remedy this?

Got some stuff pulled off yesterday and wire brushed. I primed them today, even sprayed some red! There's rustoleum paint on sale at Menard's for 2 bucks a can that's supposed to have primer mixed in. Is this stuff any good?









Very happy to be done with the seat pan! :fing32: The second biggest part on the tractor. There's the frame channels I guess, those are going to take some time.

Also, I need the rear hubs! Badly!! I'm pretty sure I have to cut 'em off. So, if you have 2 (4 would be better) PM me.

I got a TON done today! I finished painting the seat pan, bottom fender piece, driveshaft, couplers, shift pattern, center saddle cover, lower dash, and parking brake lever. I also cut a hub off and it went pretty good, I'm not happy that I had to, but it was the only way the thing would come off. I'm going to have 4 more made at a local welding shop, hopefully they'll be cheaper than the OEM part. 50 BUCKS ON PARTSTREE!! :swow: For 1 stupid hub!! Never gonna pay that much!

Also went to Menard's today and got some self-etching primer and more paint. They didn't have Regal Red in the sale items though :madpc:
What the heck, what're ya gonna do? So I just bought some of everything.

Pics:







Got my ammo box toolbox off to work on tranny internals:


I need your opinion, should I leave my ammo box with the "homemade" look or paint it the same?


The shop when I was all done:

Ok, just got off the phone with the machinist. He said he could do the 4 hubs for $35 a piece, maybe better because I am getting 4 and there's no rush. This is getting to be a bit more spendy than I wanted, but oh well. It's a wonderful machine and I love it! But I already have more than it's worth into it...

$45 for machine
$110 for rear tire
$90 for starter
$90 for new front tires
Probably close to $50 in paint/primer
Approx. $30 in misc odds n ends/oil
2 new hubs, $70
New bearings will probably be around 7 bucks a piece
Have to get slime for other rear tire ???

Everything I've put into this is probably close to $520, waay too much in my book but it's all water under the bridge now
Plus, after this resto, it'll last me another 20+ years.

I have finally found out where all my money is going! :trink40: :hide:

Then there's the OTHER Snapper that'll get redone as well :sidelaugh

I found this stuff, says it won't rust out a rim.
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I looked it up on amazon:
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Going to parts city today, I'll see if they have some there.

Well, yesterday was a great day for me, I got the rest apart! I found that I could drop the gearbox/axle straight down instead of pulling it through. That saves me an axle hub. Now it's not a totally complete job, but good enough for me. Plus, nobody looks in there anyway. I'll just clean off the grease and sand down what I can and give 'er a shot of paint. It's not like sheet metal or anything.

Where'd my tractor go?!?




I am a bit intimidated on how many bolts I have to remember where they went


I did find a wire wheel for a power drill and used that to grind paint and rust off of one rear tire


The shop when I called 'er quits:


I have a wire wheel for our big Milwaukee grinder, and I will do most of the frame rails and big pieces with that, but I'm really hoping that Parts City will have a small one for the Makita.

Hmm, I guess I don't have any pics of the latest batch of painted parts, but I will. I now have both running boards, 1 frame rail, 1 wheel, and a bunch of little internal parts painted. It looks like that's all that's gonna get painted this week, as it's supposed to be a chilly week in the upper 40's and lower 50's. Not ideal for painting. I will hopefully get the tranny assy. cleaned and ground to get ready for painting. And hopefully I'll get a nice day to grind and prime my other frame rail.

Okay, after looking, I found that I DO have some pics of current small parts, but the frame rail and running boards are now on the trailer with both sides painted with 2 coats of beautiful red paint! And they turned out GREAT! Nice and smooth.

This is with the Krylon paint. Looks better on the picture. I have since replaced it with some Rustoleum that looks MUCH better


Bunch of parts I ground with the drill press:




These were only painted on one side at that time:


Ok, THIS one is with a coat on the other side. I'm finding pics I didn't know I took, lol