Elbow Grease

Gonna spend a little quality time bonding with my wire brushes and assorted tools today.

I bought this '51 H a few years ago and was always 'bothered' by it having the wrong seat.

Bought a new canvas pan last summer and it never did fit the old style frame quite right either.

Gotta find me a new shock and with a little time, we outta be back in business. :>)

Allan

Everything came thru just like the doctor ordered.

Finding an original center link with that "wire retainer & chain" is like looking for an Angus calf at night. Plus, I had to buy a new link last year for my 686 and the darned thing came without pins, no chain and it came to $230 delivered, so felt that I had plenty of headroom on this one of yours.

I soaked the swivels with a little penetrating oil last night and it is indeed as you said, "As good as new". That thing has been ‘parked’ for quite some time.

If you’re still gonna be bull-headed about it and tell me you don’t have one, I guess I'll have to buy the bottom pin from CaseIH and it should round out this week’s little dilemma. :>)

Thanks Pard, I’ve got ya on my “favorite sellers” list at ebay.

Allan

No, I've tried it and it doesn’t work.

Now, on the other hand, I've tried Jack Daniels back when I was younger.

Likewise, it also didn't do any good, but the good part was that, I definitely noticed that I really didn't care all that much either. :>)

Allan

I'm certainly no authority on this subject, but as I recall, it went something like this:

To be taken in small doses orally.

Almost immediately and within the hour, you should notice that you are now 7 feet tall, weigh 249 lbs, built like a college linebacker, can dance the legs off every woman in the county while still maintaining the ability to whip every cowboy within three states. At the same time, you have no feeling in your body extremities, whatsoever.

You are now definitely the best lookin' man in history, perfect of hearing, speech, impeccable moral character and knowing all the while that all others in this world are total fools.

You are totally irresistible by women, largely due to the fact that you are now hung better than a Missouri plow mule.

The downside is that one always wakes up the next morning lying out on the front lawn and that the dog just whines and won’t come within 15 feet of you.

As an afterthought, I recall the last time I used this remedy, all of my clothes were also lying beside me on the lawn in a pile when I woke up along with an empty suitcase.

I don’t seem to recall how they got there and I couldn't remember where I left the truck. :>)

Allan

I vividly recall in the summer of 1986, being in a restaurant in Riverton, Wyoming VERY early one Sunday morning.

I somewhat matter-of-factly told a big cowboy what a fool he was for wearing spurs into a public dining facility. He then responded quietly that if I didn’t close my yap, that he was going to paint all the yellow lines in the parking lot with my nose.

I also seem to recall that in Wyoming, cowboys are indeed men of their words. :>)

Allan

Ah say, just wondering..... ..

Did you ever happen to wear your spurs into a resturant? It's hard to make out a face when your eyes are all swollen shut and packed full of asphalt. :>)

Allan

My M has been in the family for over 50 years. I am trying to do most of the work in my garage in Houston. Recently bought a primer gun and when it gets here I will start the process. The tractor is running thanks to a friend's help. Want it to be just about new. Anyhow, enjoy the year that is coming yhour way. Charles Park in Houston.

Next spring when you drop outta the sky in that bi-plane to buy my coffee, like I know you are gonna do, I'm gonna send a perfectly restored seat that came off a '39 H home with ya.

Heck, it even has the correct "holes" in the seat pan :>)

Allan

I probably used the wrong word there.

The older models of Hs and all Ms, (I think) used that 'behind the spring' shock; and that style of seat is IH for sure. They used it for years and years.

In about 1950, '51, (or thereabouts), they started putting the shock in front of the spring on the Hs. People have told me that IH used an out source supplier for these seats, but I dunno.

All I know is that the old style doesn't look right, nor does it bolt up right on my '51.

As far as being "correct", someone else more knowledgeable than I will have to clarify.

Allan

Yes, that is the problem I'm running into. Also, the darned correct seat pan from the later model will not bolt up right.

Allan