So i have my car trailer ready to rock and roll and i believe we're going to make a deal the owner's going to be around shortly and we'll kind of go from there, but don't know anything about its issues or history. Neither does the owner of the property is no key in it. Neither i don't see. I want the same as the one that i have.

The other problem is the hydraulics are already down, so we got to figure out how to get them up in the air. A little bit to be able to get it on the trailer, but jason has his kubota on his trailer and he's come to the property too. I'm gon na try to use that for a little bit of uh help to get it on there one way or another we'll get it on there. But this is what we got to work with.

Let's go see what we got for yeah, it's been there tad huh. Well, it's giving us the model sticks full throttle. Let's go see what was going on with that: hey guys and how's it going hey. This is going to be part three of this kubota tractor that i grabbed from.

I want to call it. An estate sale was an abandoned property that the owner of the property was selling. This was left behind on the property and it was in unknown condition. The hood was off to one side of it flat tires sunken in the dirt that kind of thing.

So in the first video we dragged it out of its location, got it on the trailer, brought it home and got it running and the engine actually seemed like it. It runs just fine, i don't see any problems with the engine and from there we went and did a function check. The loader seemed like it worked like it should, and then we got to the three-point hitch on the back, which is this piece back here? Had a rototiller on it that would not go up or down so that possibly is was the failure why the tractor was not being used and why the hood was ripped off. I don't know what the answer to that.

So we found three point: hitch was not working and then the steering was all locked up. I thought they were related, it does have power, steering got the three-point hitch working by taking some of the components apart in the back and cleaning them, and then the steering was actually the steering column going down december. The bearings were, seized up, ended up drilling a hole in the shed and the steering column down below got some lube in. There got some lube in the top between some fire and some lube and working it.

That freed up power steering works and that is taken care of. So as far as i know, all the heavy mechanical stuff does function like it should, but there's a bunch of smalls that really need to be taken care of on it. It's missing: there's a list over there there's a list right there of about 20 items that need to be taken care of so sit tight, let's get into it. Let's get all that stuff knocked out and make this a functioning part of tractor society.

Once again, let me go over my list, real, quick, all right, so it's missing the cross member that curls across right here. This is not here. It's gone altogether. The charging system - we don't know if it works or not.

I do see a bunch of uh wire tie nuts on the alternator. It looks like somebody may have adapted another one to that, not sure. What's happening lights in general, i don't think any of the lights work on the tractor fluids and filters. I have some of that.

We need to go swap that out. It does not have any air cleaner assembly, it had the hose going up and around, but it was missing the air filter all together. The seat lack thereof is just a metal pan. There was nothing left of the seat.

I do something about that: uh, busted and missing lugs. It is missing. There's one missing there, there's one missing there and i think the same on the other side. I think it's missing some of the outer ones, possibly yeah one missing there so we'll address that stuff.

Uh exhaust is kind of just had a muffler just sitting on there not attached flapping around hoses. I don't know what condition the hydraulic hoses are in. I'm probably just going to run it with what is on it. Sometimes they look absolutely terrible, but that's just a jacket on the outside.

It's what's important is what's underneath them and sometimes you'd, be surprised how long this stuff lasts check the gears. I didn't run it through any of the you know. I left the clutch out and saw the tires wanted to move a little bit, but i haven't you know driven the tractor around and uh we got ta do some surgery on the hood. The hood looked like it was pretty, beat up and and whacked out.

That's the way. You know right now, i'm sure we're gon na find some other thing other stuff. That needs to be addressed giver. So i say we start with maybe the charging system.

What we'll do is we'll fire it up and we'll just put a a meter across the battery uh. The battery should be around 12 5 12 7. Without the tractor running we'll fire it up, it should go up to about thirteen seven to fourteen five. Let's see we get i'll, get that hooked up to the battery.

It says 12 7 has its resting voltage and make sure she's not in gear turn. The key on we'll glow it glow plugs are taking a draw. It's as good as showing that the glow plugs are working, give her a second. Let's go fire it up.

That's not good yeah! So all five, let's go! Try it again. It went down to nine volts kind of weird way. I went down the nine though it's kind of like opposite what it should be doing like it's almost discharging. Let's give it one more shot, that's the key turned off and the key turned on yeah just right there why it goes down to no voltage.

Let me get a little bit better. I don't see us having an issue we are on dc or on auto. You just try relocating our ground a little bit and try to one more shot. I would have thought it would have just stayed the same.

It really seems weird that it would have dropped off to nine volts, because there's not there's nothing on a a diesel that runs. It does not need the power you take the battery right out of it. Let's go. Try that one more time i got the directly on the battery 12 volts yeah, it's not charging yeah we're, not charging okay, we do not get a charge light.

Neither so when you turn the key on we're getting oil light, but we're not getting a charge light. Just quickly, let's go do all the stupid stuff. Let's go check the fuses real, quick, make sure it's not an issue there and possibly i know on on certain air cooled vw's. If the charge light does not work, the charging system will not work, so it could be possibly part of it or it's just you know other issues.

Let me give a quick look at the back of the alternator. I don't think that is how that's supposed to be so yeah. That would definitely be an issue right there. Let's go pull that plug back and see.

What's going on, we also have wires that aren't even they're not even connected to anything. We need a wiring diagram for this thing yeah. I definitely say at least two of those are already ripped out of there. It's like this one's yanked out too, and they made some kind of quickie connection to try to hook some of this stuff up.

But what i have is another tractor: it kind of matches this one. So what we do is go get that tractor and we'll use it for copying some of the other pieces. You can actually get the the cross brace if that's the same, we'll make it from that and have a better visual what it is and might be able to copy some of the wiring right off of it. So this one i've owned for about 20 years, but a great machine, don't use it much during the summer other than you know, pushing some piles around and everything mostly for snow removal between the greater blade in the back and the bucket on the front.

But we're gon na go bring that to the shop so that it has some stuff that we can copy off. Of that is missing that right there go give her a cold start, see how she does probably been back here. A couple months during the summer is usually not an issue. Let's see we get and blow it.

The charge light doesn't come on this one. Neither this one says it has 804 hours on it, hey they actually think that's real. I think the attack still works on this. That's your glow light right.

There see we got it getting the water out of it well to get the hood flipped up. We need to take this bar off, so let's get rid of this anyway, because you want to make a copy out of this and we'll get the nose up and take a look at that charging system. There we go. Let's see if that's close to fitting this.

These could be all bent up too, but i think it did once we replaced the ends that was all hammered and bent up on that tip, but at least we got a copy to work off. Of that light. I got overhead us over above us is screwing us up. It's making the camera go all flippy see if that just helps us any all right.

So we got. Let's just wait to see it's like three wires going in on that plug and then a big heavy lead coming off of that side. I don't seem to remember the the one on the right, but we got a color code there, so we can know which one goes to which pin. Let's go back there and we'll dig a little bit and see what we got going on and see.

If we can go at least copy what we have here and if it will come to life, it's all kind of butchered up. It's got some kind of black wire running over to what was red. I'm gon na go dig out that plug whatever is left of it and i think we're going to get rid of all these weird looking jumpers. Maybe we'll slip this back a little bit and try to get some new connectors on there and probably get rid of that plug all together, because i don't have one it's going to fit that and that looks like it's all, busted and corroded.

How much left of that huh? Let's get rid of some uh, we'll leave this one hooked up for now. That's the main power wire coming out. Let's get some of this fiasco out of here should probably disconnect the battery would be a good idea right now, but it won't that one that one now we're back to the original three wires. I'm gon na go write down the color codes where they went on the plug on the other one.

I think i might be able just to work with what we got right. There just put three terminals right on it. No, no. I got them reattached.

I didn't. Do the hot lead yet and i haven't packed it with any grease for corrosion. Let's just go see if the charging system works. Now the resting voltage is 12.68.

Let's fire it up come on baby. That's why the voltage is lower. Give us some rpms yeah. No difference still not working, it's underneath his little fuse panel.

Let's go see. Actually these got a little, not even fuses, they're just little wires. Let's go take a a test, light across those and see if those circuits are working. What's this spares and it's left up to spare yeah, that's one right there, all right! The key is still on see if any of these light up and that one works so that one's working going across that one has nothing that one has nothing.

Some of those other circuits could be like headlights and stuff. Let's go, i don't know if that's a headlight switch or not, and we can turn the key like he only has two positions, so we got nothing on those. I don't know what those circuits are. I would think that that's what they would be, let's see if this one we turn the key off see if this circuit goes out, it does okay, let's try out one for glow plugs turn the low plugs on see if it not that one, neither one's working.

The glow plugs there's a homemade toggle switch on there. I would say that that should be for headlights, so that homemade switch looking around a little more wouldn't exactly say that instills confidence now does it i get those loose. I don't know what they're going to and i do see a couple more: where are they down here? I'm going to say these are probably headlights going to the hood. It's just my guess, but let's look into under that area, see if we can figure out where any of those wires go.

Possibly this might be the other end of. Are they the same colors or these the other end of that no doesn't seem to match? What's this one, the little ones green with a white tracer might be one of those. Let's go. Look on the other tractor, this one's a little different.

This has two positions on the key switch has on and run, and then that would be for the lights and actually see the little uh. The dash light up on that one. That's for the running lights, where the other tractor has a toggle switch. Instead of two positions on the ignition switch - and i do not see those wires anywhere on this one - so that may not help us might be this harness right here, all right.

So what i did was i broke the back. The alternate is the power coming right out of the alternator, so i got 13 volts coming out of here if i probe it right here 12.6. So this wire is no good, there's a break between here and the alternator or the just the contact between there, and there is no good. So it's right at this last wire - that's on here.

Let's go cut this crap off of here, so you can get that hooked up and let me answer our questions all right, so i got them redone, packed all with grease that one's packed with grease that one's packed with grease and for good i'm going to just Pull those off and pack a bunch of grease inside those connectors, i'm going to let it run for a little while again resting everything's off the battery's resting at 12.8, we'll go see if that creeps up on its own. Well, something's bringing the voltage up out of the 12s, so i would say it is working we're going to leave that well enough for loan alone. For now we're going to go jump onto some other stuff and uh get them knocked out. We've got some other wiring issues and lights to work on anyway, but i i'm pretty sure that is functioning generally.

The on a charging system. You a resting battery like 12 7 is a good uh charged battery and then, when you fire it up, you're between like yeah, 13 and 13 and a half and 14 or say 13 2 to 14 should be the running voltage. It does get up there. It just seems like it's kind of slow, get out there again the resting voltage.

Now it has this creeping back down, everything's off, that's just the battery by itself, but when i fire it up, call that a win that battery will run right back down to about the high 12s. I guess i just packed in those connectors with grease. Should i have soldered them? Yes, am i going to no, let's go move on to something else. Let's the engine's already warm, let's go, get the oil draining out of it and maybe we'll start making that front crossmember.

While it's leaking out of the oil pan ready and say that's the first oil change in about 30 years. Diesel does get dirty pretty quick, but that looks pretty nasty. Lisa's got oil in it right ready to swap i've learned my lesson: let it get about two-thirds any more than that makes a real pain. He asked the poor i'd say we swap it out right now.

There we go wow, let that finish doing this thing: let's see what that does for putting up a fight that doesn't have a date on it. Huh, normally i'd fill the old one up with oil ahead of time, but being on an angle like that, i don't think it's going to be worth. It lose most of it yeah a little bit of love. Now didn't it.

I wrote the the hours upside down. The hours and the date on that one there you go not that you can read it i'll, re-put them on this side. Next, one is fuel, filter, big enough, of course, not apparently that's right from the tank i'm going to have to see if there's a shut off on the tank or pinch the line, there's a valve on the tank. Let's see, if that did it, apparently not that valve, doesn't work, go pinch, the fuel line.

How about now that's more like it just pee a little bit and then stop. We got a new one of these, but fuel on a diesel is very picky. You do not want to let it really run dry because it can be a to prime, so we're going to put new filter on it, but we're going to fill it up first i'll, throw a date on that too yeah, that's the valve. I tried turning off, but it didn't work, so i ended up just clamping the line.

I've done four quarts in here: let's go fire it up hello for a second. Hopefully the oil light goes out. That means you've got oil pressure and then the other thing is whether the fuel is going to die on or should not. It should have enough to go prime its way through, but we'll see oil lights out last for a second, we may stutter a little bit.

The rubber up you get an air pocket, the air pocket works its way up to the injectors should know in about 60 seconds or so foreign there. It goes come on recover dying, come on back, throw a wrench on one of the on one of the lines and you crack it and let it bleed might make it on its own. Though gon na rub her up so right there. I think it's got it.

I'm all set we're good. Let's go check the oil level low on a stick. I put four in it looks like five is the magic number that looks like it might be a day or two old too. That's the hydraulic oil for the loader, and this is the reservoir for it.

Let's go take a peek. What we got generally hydraulic oil doesn't doesn't go bad unless it gets water in it. It's not like a an engine where it gets to deposits from compression blown by the rings and corroding it breaking it down. Hydraulical just gets put under pressure, has the job to do and then returns itself.

I think we're going to leave the oil alone for now and we'll wait for when we're running it and it blows the hydraulic line out, but we are going to go change that filter out we'll put a better one of those on at least i think it's Hand tight: i do not want to break off a fitting. Let's go get a good thing on there and something there there and there and for the record here, we did not expect it to want to go right. We got that. Is that the right way.

Of course not, let's get right down by the threads holy moly yeah. I would definitely say that one's been there since new yeah a little on the dirty side, but for now we are going to let it ride that up and date. It too, i want to start playing with some metal work enough of this fluid stuff, so let's go fire it up and cycle the loader we'll get the bucket rotated and get the loader to sit down a little bit better. So we can have access to that.

Crossbeam fire it up there we go. That's the one off the other tractor. If you look at the lip here, it's all boogered up. I have a feeling to probably crash something off the loader and caused it to have a tad bit of issues.

I think we get to probably throw some heat on that we'll get that straight, get the original one to fit. How's this side get the original one to fit and then we'll make up a new one of those get some fire. So i blow my holes here looks like it's splayed out a little, i'm not sure which one probably that one's been and line up that hole that one that far apart, so one of them is kicked out. That one actually looks a little bit bent more, as you probably should get some bolts and make sure that you could probably just draw them in what are they how they mounted right there missing a bolt nope.

I just won for that matter. We just make a new one right, make it a little bit longer make sure all the hardware is on, though there let's get something i don't know. Maybe i could come along or something we'll go around and see if we can just kind of pull these together. A little bit more to like what home position would be.

You don't need that much where we need half inch, maybe a little more be better off working with a tape measure we have. We got, i see just a hair under 27 to the outside. We need to give it about 26 and a half. What do you think our chances are for a success rate of this? I think we go over and see we're probably down to what would we say it was.

It was just 27 right, we're probably at 25 right now, 25 and a quarter see what it springs back to that side's hot. Ask me how i know uh we need 26 and a half. We said 26 and a little over i'm gon na. Do it one more time that should be good, think i overshot it? Probably a little nope 26 and a half right on the money go put that brace back on there.

There we go that one's lined up with the hole and that gap is closed up. The idea is you're supposed to just undo that one swing it out of your way, so you can go flip the hood up. Here's the general idea. Okay, we need to go make one of those i'm hunting in my scrap pile.

I found this piece of angle right now. I don't know: if that's going to be the close, what we can do, the other problem is choose length. I think this is much and we need another quarter, inch width and then the lip going up. So we can cut this in half and then we'll take another one, maybe we'll slice it right down whatever that dimension, that we need and we'll flip it around and weld it on this side.

Let me go see if i have anything a little bit taller. Maybe a little bit more beefy, if not we'll go with that one. The stash yeah, i'm not seeing anything. Yeah, they're gon na, be it's about a little too small.

Yet too. Some crap on the floor also, is that the same or is that that's about the same? Doesn't it i'll check that with a tape measure get this one? That's not enough of it, though that's more the case, it gives us that that wider that longer right there. Let's look at two pieces of that yeah. That was definitely thicker than the other one.

It kind of matches what was on there but we'd have to rip it. You know we just got ta, add drop that down to there, so that has to get cut that much all the way down the length of it and then we still have to go cut another one to make it fit this side. Let's see if we can even need to cut that off, we could leave that on there. We will let's go just, take a peek and set it on the tractor and see if that's going to cause us any uh issues.

I don't know, i don't think it. Maybe the only thing is the hood. Now that was probably back that we're glad you look at the other tractor, so we're going to unbolt that side and it would have to swing, but i don't see that the ends aren't capped so that doesn't really matter right. So we can just get away with yeah, just slice it and then we'll slice, the other one of them we'll have to slice slice, lengthwise yeah, we'll go with that.

You agree too bad we're about there, so we're gon na need to slice off. Let's pull that a little closer to us it's flat, so this would be the other half of the other one. We eyeball that one and we need to get rid of right on the line right there and just slice that off all the way down on that piece, so looks like the heat deformed it a little bit. We should be able to squeeze that back together, though.

Maybe get attack on one end, we'll tack it and then kind of work. Our way across that's got a little bow to. It needs a slight adjustment. I'd say right about there, one more better! Perfect! I tell you: let's see it's a carpenter's eye, let's weld her up so now.

I need to make one of those see before we get too far. Let's go. Try a trial fit make sure we're. That's warm actually feels pretty good, there's really no play anywhere in it.

You can just go, make that little block and whatever which side is square. Definitely that's a better cut. Let's go with that one and we'll call it all right right there, and i say we need a hole right about there. What do you think our chances are? I'm not thinking very good but we'll give it a shot.

Harbor freight, you surprised me. I grind those corners away. I can see the air gap in there. I was gon na butt, it right up against it and then drill the holes.

But then i looked at the pre-made one. It was stood off about a half inch, i'm like why'd. They do that, that's so that when you open it up, it could swing. If i bolted it right to the front, wouldn't have any room to move.

I think this side is almost the same cement scenario, but to get us a perfect fit, i'm going to install it right on the tractor, just tap it right into place and we'll go put a bolt in it and i can bring the welder over i'll. Just get attack there attack there i'll, take it off and then buzz it solid got a couple attacks in here: let's get something too hot. Should we get the impact just loosen it up and should be able to it's got like a key in it and swing it open there we go, i wouldn't exactly say it's butter, but it is close enough. I'm gon na go take that off buzz that up solid and we'll call that a win.

Well, there we go, i got it all bolted down and you just crack this one loose. I made a little bit of play. The hole inside here was too tight for the bolt to lift up, and it's got like a a key is a gap here and it drops down into a hole and just the bolt can lift up out of the hole. So i elongated the the hole in this a little bit, so the bolt can kind of pitch upward and then it swings out of the way so we're good with that, but unfortunately it's getting a little late in the evening.

I want to chill out not make so much noise for the neighbors, so i'll pick it back up. It won't make any difference to you. It'll just seem like a couple of seconds. I think maybe we'll get either fitting the hood or got ta, make battery hold downs and some other other kind of stuff and when the air cleaner, but we'll concentrate about right here i don't know, i think we maybe should go grab the hood and we'll see How that uh kind of lines up with stuff and got ta beat it back into submission? I think it's pretty roughed up again.

It was never on the tractor. When i got it, it was thrown to the side. So i don't know if this thing crashed or maybe this was open and the loader came down it twisted the end of it and busted up some stuff and then did the same with the hood. That's still speculation anyway.

Let's go grab the hood and start beating on it, put it back together, yeah she's, looking a tad twisty on there yeah. I think the whole nose just like crunched in like this. Let's go clean that dirt off. We will start.

It looks angry. It's pissed off. Let's get the dirt off, we'll flip it over start. Getting some of this dent out and we'll start just pushing a little bit see if we can get, however, shape it wants to go back.

Yeah definitely uh take a crunch going that way. Somebody already beat it out once before yeah right there, so i wonder if that bar came off or it just hit something so hard that it crushed right through it looks like somebody did some welding. There, too looks even worse when i flipped it over yeah. So what they weld back on, maybe they put a plate up in here to support it.

Oh maybe it was. This bracket got ripped off the one that it swivels on yeah. That's it! You see the world we'll clean the rest of that dirt out of there. Let's try for he's getting you're somewhat in the right shape.

There's a piece of wood across the front, lifting it up a little. Let's go grab some. I don't know, maybe like a two by four sound to a piece of metal, we'll clamp it on the sides and we'll try to straighten the sides out, get rid of all that wobbly wonkiness to them. Calling all vice grips, calling all vice grips time to return to active duty work with there.

I think we do that get a bunch of them on there forcing the lift down and then we'll take a little hammer and we'll come in start tapping down all these high spots and we'll take it back off, so you can maintain a straight edge. So so so so that's supposed to be 17. I measured off the other hood all the way down and this one definitely splays out we're up to 19.. So it's two inches wider up here alone.

So that's got to come in on each side. I don't know. Maybe a ratchet strap going around it, so this is cut to sixteen and three quarters. That's how much that has to come in on each side and that distance right there.

So i think yeah, probably a ratchet strap, might be your best bet, we'll kind of like draw it together and maybe just do some more hammering on it and should want to go back to its original shape. So um you can change its attitude and get rid of the pissed off look a little. So so, after about three or four thousand taps with a hammer, it is resembling the shape it's supposed to the front still looks all kind of that right. There all looks like it's kind of crunched down like that, i'm thinking, but again it was cut up and re-welded, so possibly the rest of the tractor on the bottom matches that angle.

So i think our best bet right now - maybe we'll just set it on the tractor and get an idea how it looks and how things kind of line up go from there. We can do a little bit more twisting after we get that installed and just slip. It right over, we stuck on, looks good, perfect, closer to the hooks, not terrible. She just looks now just looks confused.

We are down a little where's, the pins, so there's pins in the front end here you got ta get them on. I don't think any more beating on it. We're just going to start making it lumpy, probably taste a couple of other little ones, but let's get the front pins located i'll get this back off, so we can swing the hood up and down and once we get that in place - and we can probably deal With some of the other air cleaner and battery hold down, that kind of thing ended up loosening up that oil line. I re-ran it so it runs low.

It had some kind of weird smashed up into the hood and back around so i changed that it got bolt, it got bolt. We have bolts in the bottom of it and the hood flips up and down like it. Should i'm looking at the angle that that's, i was trying to figure out if the hood was like that or if that is kicked down on an angle, i'm thinking the frame of the loader has got is tweaked to that side. Possibly the tractor is even rolled too.

Maybe that's what happened to it, so i don't know how much we're gon na go get into that of trying to worry about straightening that i do know it's missing a couple of bolts too. That's not helping things! I'm going to run around throw some of those in maybe one for the loader frame right, there's not even in it so that'll allow us to have anything to move if we can get any adjustment out of it. Let's go. Lay it two by four across the front of the loader it'll, come down with a tape measure we'll see how things are.

Let's see we get, let's go from that bottom over at nine and eight and three quarters, so this side is up a hair or that side's down a hair. However, you want to try to compare that, but that looks more than a quarter of an inch just go uh heave on that hood, a little. Let's make a slight adjustment. Smoosh things into their proper locations.

Look better much better! It's all needed! Yeah, that's better! Yeah! I'm gon na try for perfect we're just trying to get it somewhere decent in this correct location. I think we'll leave it like that for now, let's go continue on with getting some of the underpinnings taken care of now. It's got stops on it. It should allow it to stop without hitting the loader frame there.

We go. That's good all right, so we have battery issues to attend. To. I don't know if we're going to get any more room at that, we'll get that battery out of there.

We'll take a look at that tray looks like somebody made that tray the yellow one, that's in there again right front and was squished on it, and i'd like to get a little bit more space for air to flow through. I don't know if that reds their radiators lean in like this seems like there's more that's pretty consistent. It ripped out of there and they had like foam on the edges, because there's bolts right here and here's where the original battery tray was, and they just made something at an angle. I think what probably we'll do is be able to get like a thin piece of wood or thin piece of metal that will maybe fill the gap in here, bring it up to the height of the bolt, so the battery's not sitting on these posts underneath it.

I could probably grind them down a little too. If i have to let me go see, we can whittle out to go, get that and then we're gon na need some kind of hold down. I'm thinking, possibly, we do maybe weld like a nut on the side. Here we come down like a threaded rod on each side of it, but let's get the center piece built first and then we'll put the battery back on and then we'll try to figure out some way to hold it down.

I know what they had before, probably got bungee or something that's pretty good. So we go shopping again for something to hold down and we got a threaded rod here has a decent size. We call it that and a piece of angle just enough to go across the battery. Go with that.

I think there's something like if you cut that down correct width, maybe right about there, and i don't know if we should weld a nut to the bottom and just make like a big bolt out of these and and have them just kind of crank down on Each side of it you take them out, because is it going to be a pain you have to change the battery if they're welded on the sides? Let's try that let's um weld the nut on each end and then on the top of the all thread. We'll cut it and we'll weld the nut to the rod so that the rod turns into just a long bolt and then you just have to unback it a couple of threads to loosen it up. You agree: i'm going to do something different. I don't want to do that.

Actually didn't bother welding, the nuts on the top. I think it would just leave it. However, you want to take it apart. You either spin the whole rod out of the bottom or just take the top off, and i shifted it.

So the battery was all the way forward. It's kind of it's pulling the battery forward, see a slight angle, that's on it and then from the caps and that's going to maintain a bit of an air gap between the battery and the radiator a little bit of air down there. I was looking at the other tractor it's about in the same spot, but i think the only difference is that one's a two cylinder and this one's a three. So i'm wondering if this rat is just kind of pushed a little bit further forward due to the length of what's on there.

Let's look at these wires, they got on and they are just barely going to make it and it's already a repair, there's crappy ones that are on. Let's go grab some new ones and redo that get them a little bit. Longer too, give us a little bit of a play room kind of direct them where we want and do the magic of video two others yeah. That was a little bit more in control.

I'll tie everything up when i'm done once everything's finalized and wires and hoses and everything around where they are i'll, come back with a bunch of tie, wraps and just kind of cinch things into the correct locations. Let's go grab the piece of rubber hose that came up here and see what we can do about getting some kind of air cleaner on it, not quite sure what that tape is doing. But let's go see how that was. I think it went like that.

Do you have the capacity of flipping it around at all yeah that was it? I'm gon na go yank that tape off of there and go see if make sure, there's no damage. Hopefully that was just for we're. Gon na find out, that's pretty beat. I wouldn't think it's anything different, but regular heater hose.

I'm gon na have to go wait on that to go, find something when the store's open kind of go in the back and say go eye ball something from a 78 chevy caprice. It's got the right! Look to it. The only thing i found in my stash was vacuum cleaner hose and i i think heat was going to kill that over time it would hold up to collapsing because it's under vacuum and it's vacuum hose but uh, i'm gon na go like i said, hit the Auto parts store probably tomorrow and walk in the rack, where they're all hanging see. If i can get something.

Even if i could just get something with you know one profile and then we can go cut, it put a connector together and get it to rest away and have it sit you know somewhere over here. I don't even have the correct air cleaner for it too. I got some it, it might be a filter for a vacuum. Cleaner.

I don't know, is this some kind of filter, i'm going to plan on hanging here and keep an eye out at the swap beach for something that can kind of fit for it? I looked real quick on ebay and it was the stock one's like 125 bucks. I'm not putting that into that just the way i am anyway, i would have liked to have gotten further along. I was hoping to make this the last video on this tractor. Getting everything knocked out, but we still got a few things to still take care of.

Let's go check our list and see what we didn't did not get done. So we got. The crossbar is taken care of charging system lights. We didn't get filters and fluids, we did air cleaner, we didn't do seat, we didn't do busting missing lugs, we didn't do exhaust we haven't done hoses.

I think that might be hydraulics. Is that we're looking into czech gears? We haven't road, tested it yet and bend hood back, so we're still got a ways to go. These are smaller items to take care of, but we still got one two, three, four, five, six, six or seven items, that's not even including what we find after we. You know test, drive it and move some stuff around, but we got pretty far.

We got all the fluids changed, we got the electrical system working which i don't even think was on here. Uh charging the battery hold down is set, the hood is squished back into shape. We got the bracket made for the front, so it closes and goes back in its factory location, so hopefully one more and then we'll call this uh a win on this one, but for i think right now we're gon na go wind this one down guys thanks For hanging out with me just have a little fun and um yeah just bring a little junk back to life. I enjoy it and apparently one or two you like doing the same too so until the next one.

I will see you soon, uh! Oh, let me just add one thing i got a busy week coming up next week, possibly i may i have another series on something else. That's already filmed. I may jump into that and then throw the final video of this one a little bit later and don't get all crazy. If you don't see it the last one but uh, i will get it knocked out, but i do have, i think, two or three videos on another item that will either be the next thing coming along.

If this is not so it's kind of up in the air what we're gon na get and see on that one, but till then later you.