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I bought this older Steiner. My plan is to fix it up, give it a paint job then work it. The p.o had said it leaks real bad oil and smokes bad and he only used it to tow cars up his steep incline driveway, He had said the tractor was never under any cover for its hole life just sat in the open. But had said the guy he got it off put a new engine it?
I had bought the tractor it had such a bad oil leak the hole tractor was coated, and had its own smoke cloud that would follow you around.

I had give it about 3 different engine degreaser baths to see where the leak was coming from but it still would hardly clean up. But it was better than it was. I had put on my spare mower deck that i have for my newer Steiner and i mowed with it.

Seems the oil leak was the crank seal, I pulled the motor gave it some more engine degreaser baths. After the motor is simi clean I can see all newer gaskets hiding under the covers/ Pull the covers and see written in crayon (REBUILT IN 2001) Turns out the had put a wrong crank seal in it when they rebuilt the motor. fixed that, no more oil leak.
Now i started to give it a paint job, Painting it with Valspar IH red, from TSC. I only painted the hood so far and the wheels.

I building a snow blade for it to, i am using a rusted up cub cadet blade. going to cut the wear edge off of it. then weld a newer but longer edge on it then I'm going to put aluminium over the blade part and bolt the two together so i have a smooth blade part.

New fast hitch built for the blade

 

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I want one. 4x4 right?

Yes its a 4x4 with hi and low range, The price on these are not cheap. If you find one. I paid close to 6000 for my newer used Steiner 4x4, it came with a bunch of attachments and had a new rebuilt motor, before that I was at a auction and a another Steiner went for 6500 and was not near the condition as mine and it only had a mower. I think a brand new Steiner costs around 11,000 with no attachments just a basic tractor. now this older Steiner i paid 600 for it. But these tractors are high valued in my area

you can just about do anything with the tractor, Changing a attachment on it takes less than a minute if that.

 

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Update Painted the the rear trans axle
Camera makes the red look like pink but its red

sanded the rear box and spot primed

masked of the middle part of tractor

primed fully

might spray red tomorrow night

 

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sprayed red last night

rear box and seat put on tonight

hood put back on

waiting for the decals to be made, and all that is left to to do is engine tins and front axle area for paint which is going to be a nightmare with all of the hoses and cramped spacing. I need a new camera my old one makes the red look like pink and fuzzy

 

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On my 420 i have the 3 point, but plan on making one for this to. As for high centered never had it happen yet but i did get my 420 stuck in a mud hole, had to get the backhoe out pull it out.

 

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Little update
The old steiner is done for the most part painted the mower deck for it. So i got board with it and bought two more Steiner projects and picked up another mower deck and a stump grinder.:trink39: Steiner #1 came with a 20hp Onan not running, dealer couldn't figure out why it would not run:dunno: so they sold it for cheap, turns out they had no gas in it. pour some fresh gas in it now purrs like a kitten.:trink40:
Steiner #2 came with a Kohler command 22 with a blown head gasket, fixed that its running good now.

 

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I have a old Steiner as well. I have no idea what model or year but the briggs 18hp has a manufacture date of 1982.



If anyone has more information on this steiner I own, like model I would sure be glad to know. Also you said you were getting new decals for your steiner. Where were you getting those from? I would be interested in getting some for the day I re-paint again.

If i were to guess a year i think early 80's is about right, Because i noticed that you have the newer style transmission hydro motor that mounts on the front of the housing. Unlike mine that mounts into the side.

For the Decals i had a local sign/sticker company make them all i did was take the sticker outer dimensions (length, width) and then took a picture of the old sticker and then they made a new copy that looks similar to the old one. I only had the decals on the tool box made, i didn't have a hood one made because it did not come with any and didn't have any pictures to match up to.

 

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update picture of the Old Steiner outside and the new stump grinder

 

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I like that stump grinder! How much do one of those cost?

I believe new is around 2800, the one I bought only had about 1 stump cut with it, bought it at a auction 1/3 of the the price new. I already chewed one stump up already. does a great job, very handy.

If you didn't know that, Some Steiner and Ventrac dealers do rent attachments out for public use on the users Steiner, The dealer i bought my last two Steiner's off of had Steiner and Ventrac attachments that you could rent out.:fing32: