i will have closer pictures tommorow,i did power wash and remove the engine so far.thanks to everyone thus far for replying to my questions

1863 pictures
 

here is a few pictures of the rust from leaking battery

more rust pictures
 

spent a few hours today tearing down the 1863 further assesing things.

Looks nasty,how is the fender pan?

amazingly enough its good,it even shined up with the buffer

I had an 1864 in that shape, or worse. I found a 1641 with a bad engine that had good paint on it and swapped all the parts over to 1864.
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Much easier to do that than chip through all that rust.

I plan on parting this when I get time. It runs good, it has 900 hours on it. Look at post #17
http://www.onlycubcadets.net/forum/s...506#post302506

i had thoughts of doing a swap,depends what i find.....

I had a similar battery problem with a 782D I had years ago. I washed everything down with a baking soda solution to neutralize the acids that were still on the parts before I painted them up.

sadly most of these parts are beyond cleaning and painting. thanks to a member here i got a nice used frame and dash tower