Posted by Rootsy on October 22, 2007 at 05:55:27 from (24.176.33.123):
I finished her up Saturday and she was on the trailer headed back home by the afternoon. My father bought this tractor (1957 Farmall 350) at auction about 4 years ago. Someone had begun a restoration and had it pretty much disassembled and butchered up. The engine was out of it and in pieces as the owner had tried to remove the sleeves from the engine (apparently without any clue of how to do it) and had broken every bore in the block.
We picked up a Farmall 300 engine (C169) in Portland IN a couple of years ago and got her assembled and running (not that well btw). In July my father and uncle decided to deliver it to me so that I could finish it up and repaint it.
So for the next 2 months or so I spent time replacing seals, swapping out front ends for the swartz WF , rewiring and getting it to run correctly as well as fixing all of the stuff that previous owners had done. I used the heck out of it for the rest of the summer to verify that it was mechanically sound and wasn't going to leak like a lactating heffer.
So anywho after something like 150 hours of labor the 350 is finished... I was told not to make it a "movie star" so I didn't really get over zealous about it but I really don't know how to do anything half arsed I reckon... I've had a lot of folks stop to look at it over the past week... Even a few fellows from the local IH dealership.
She has all of the bells and whistles. Power slip rims, Fast hitch, power steering, wide front, good TA and PTO, 3 circuit hydraulics, tach, yadda yadda. It really is a nice tractor... Runs like a top and the C169 has an overbore kit so it is actually a C175. The LPTO was pretty ruthless on my AC 172 pull type mower though...
(BTW, the paint on the rear tires was already there when she came to me... )
The paint is just regular ole CaseIH 2150 red with a valspar acrylic enamel hardener. The white is the CaseIH 9XX cream white. Nothing special.
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