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Bill Smith
12-28-2003 11:38:24
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Re: Painting bolts on tractor? in reply to Justin, 12-27-2003 13:14:09
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My thought is to paint them. If you are restoring, then you should be fixing anything that is wrong before painting. Knock on wood and you won't be needing to work on the tractor for along time (thus not tearing the paint up on the bolt heads). By the time you use the tractor long enough to need some repair work done, you are going to have some paint damage on tractor whether it be scatches, chips, or even fading. At that point, who the heck is going to care if the paint on the bolts show a little abuse. Some factory original nut is always going to say, this was painted and this was not. Here is my opinion. The paint job in the factory was done on a mass producing level. That is why you are going to see items that should be painted, unpainted and items that should of been unpainted, painted. If the factory could of cost efficiently fixed the problem, they would of. In other words, it was cheaper for factory to put in some unpainted bolts here and there (not sure where all at myself) than to have some body painting them before installation. It would of slowed down production probably too. Well anyway, I say take the time and do the little things to make the paint job better than it was from factory. I mean do the things that was not done at factory because it wasn't feasable. So be sure to PAINT all those bolt heads, and leave I.D. tags and plates, hoses, hose clamps, wires, belts, tires, light lenses, spark plugs, gauges, rubber on steering wheel and manifold, and muffler, UN-PAINTED. I personally think it looks better with a few items painted black. So I painted p.t.o. shaft, axels, knobs, and metal on the lights black. Not sure if the letters, or the background on the Farmall emblem is suppose to be black (the rest unpainted). I believe I painted the letters black but that could be wrong. So anyways, my two cents worth with be to do a better job than factory, but no need to go overboard with the customizing.
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