Re: what would you do with my 47 M?

Posted by scruffyia on June 29, 2005 at 10:59:24 from (206.195.193.254):

In Reply to: Re: what would you do with my 47 M? posted by Brian in NY on June 29, 2005 at 10:29:30:

I"m already tractor poor... ;-)

I have a "53 john deere 70 that was my late grandfathers I pulled up from the weeds where it had sat for the better part of a decade and got her running again. I put a couple grand in her only to find out she still needs a new crank, alot of machine work to the head, new exhaust manifold, and something in the rear end is lightly grinding under pressure...

So alot of it is I"m burned out from working on the JD... I"ve worked on the JD for a few years now and hearing it run brings back alot of good memories on the farm. Just yesterday I decided that I"m going to stop working on the JD until I get a new building up so it can sit in one spot tore down for a couple years and I find a parts tractor (or the one I have become the parts tractor for a better condition one that needs restored).

And more importantly for it to sit until I enjoy working on it again. I don"t know, I can"t explain why, but I just don"t enjoy working on the "big projects" on them anymore. Little stuff like a new ignition system from the battery to the spark plugs is fine. But I feel a sinking feeling when I think about pulling off a head, pulling out busted off bolts/studs, all the stuff that goes with working on a nearly 60 year old tractor.

And on the side, with the arrival of our first daughter, I burned up almost all my vacation time. My vacation and sick time is one bucket of time (PTO) and I really only have enough time built up to be sick (once....). I don"t have any vacation time to take off to work on the M or anything else.

And the evenings and nights are burned up helping take care of the new baby and spending time with her and my wife as well as mowing and stuff that has to be done around the place.

I know it saves alot of money, but I"m just that burned out right now.

On the M smoking, it"s not smoking a whole lot. You can barely see it out of the stack unless the govenor kicks wide open, it"s mainly in the breather I notice it when sitting on the tractor mowing. I haven"t tested the compression but it doesn"t act low on compression nor is it down on power at all. I"m sure the motor would go a couple more years until it smoked like a chimney so just having the clutch done now and waiting on the engine a copule years is an option.

I was just thinking that if I took it into town and got the clutch work done I would have the rest of it done at the same time and be done with the work I don"t want to do. Leaving the stuff I would like to do like add another hydralic connection to the side so I can run a 2 way cylinder off the side (log splitter), new sheet metal, and a new steering wheel, and then maybe an umbrella and fenders, and then some flag holders and run her in some local parades.

I guess the more I talk about it the more I want to have her fixed up. She"s a good old girl!!!

thanks,
Mark

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