Before starting - take pictures of EVERYTHING from every angle. Most stuff will go back together in an obivous way - but there's always one or two items where you'll really appreciate a good picture.
Start a spreadsheet and make a REAL budget. You might be surprised at how quickly the costs add up on all the little parts. Doing it in your head usually leads to underestimating.
And right from the start - you really need to establish a goal for what you want for an end result.
I struggled with that - the tractor we just did was never intended to be a show tractor - but I kept wavering, thinking it would be nice to make it perfect...
I finally had to make up my mind that it WAS a work tractor - and kept reminding myself of that for every decision.
I also would not have wanted to do it without a sandblaster. You don't NEED one - but I found the sandblaster invaluable. But you really do have to be extremely careful with where the sand ends up.
If you sand blast parts, power wash grease first - thick grease/dirt wastes a LOT of sand when blasting.
I also think painting everything together would have been a better plan than painting parts individually like we did - wasted a LOT of time, AND paint.
We painted one part here, one there... Would have been better to prep everything and paint all at once - and in place when possible.
Keep nuts and bolts loosely in place when you take stuff apart. Don't just drop them all in a bucket as you go. Saves a lot of time later.
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