1650 Progress

[Lmercer]

While letting the frame dry and the paint to harden up, I decided to paint the bottom of the white parts outside. I figured any bugs wouldn't matter as it wouldn't be seen.

I got lucky and no bugs:









Hopefully tomorrow night we move the frame out of the booth and I can finish painting all the yellow.

[ACecil]

Nice work, I can't wait to see the finished tractor!

[thenrie]

You're killing me! I just got my hydro stripped and ready for primer. I have lots of work to go on the pedestal, hood and front end body parts. Yours looks great! I doubt mine will turn out so nice. At the pace I'm going, I'm not sure I'm going to get the paint on before winter sets in.

[steve59]

Here are some of the modifications I’ve done on my 1450:
• Headlight claps so they won’t twist from vibration
• Chrome Muffler extension
• Engine cradle modification with 759-3952 mounts
• Muffler Crutch
• Muffler box from Extreme Motor Works
• Super Steering Upgrade
• 1” front axle spindles
• Powder coated step plates with stainless steel bolts
• 3 point sleeve hitch
• 1 ¼” receiver hitch
• Rear SMV emblem
• Rear mounted tool box from Extreme Motor Works
• Four 26 lbs. wheel weights
• Carlisle Tru-Power Bar tires front and rear
• 4” High Speed mower deck center pulley
• Dash switch wired to rear 12 volt 2 prong plug for yard sprayer

[Lmercer]

Originally Posted by thenrie

You're killing me! I just got my hydro stripped and ready for primer. I have lots of work to go on the pedestal, hood and front end body parts. Yours looks great! I doubt mine will turn out so nice. At the pace I'm going, I'm not sure I'm going to get the paint on before winter sets in.

Sorry thenrie, I'm not trying to make you feel bad.

I decided to do some white tonight:



















I did encounter a problem on the hood. It was like it has oil on it. I had the same problem on one of the yellow pieces and after it dried, I sanded it and repainted it and it came out fine. I guess I'll redo the hood when I do the front end:





Oh well, tomorrow I'm reshooting the yellow pieces that ran and I'm going to dust the fender pan again as there are a couple of dark spots.

[ACecil]

Thanks for the progress pics.

[thenrie]

Tell me about the 4" high-speed deck pulley. I will be rebuilding my deck next. Do you have a part number for the pulley and does it take a different belt?

Your parts look great. Doesn't look like I'm going to get paint on mine this year, unless we have a warm spell that coincides with spare time for me. My shop isn't heated.

That oil spot on your hood could be from fingerprints or left-over oil on the part, or it could be that your compressor is putting a little compressor oil in your air hose. Do you have a filter mounted on your paint gun? I mount a filter on my air hose and hang it from my belt, and run a smaller diameter coiled air hose from there to my paint gun, which has a water trap filter in-line where it attaches to the gun. Keeps water and any other contaminant out of the paint gun.

[cub149]

Originally Posted by thenrie

I mount a filter on my air hose and hang it from my belt, and run a smaller diameter coiled air hose from there to my paint gun, which has a water trap filter in-line where it attaches to the gun. Keeps water and any other contaminant out of the paint gun.

That sounds like what I need. What type of filter is it? Sounds like a good set up.

[Lmercer]

thenrie, thanks for the compliments. I have put a ton of work into, I'm glad they have come out the way they did.

As far as oil or fingerprints, it's possible but I wiped down everything twice with mineral spirits prior to painting, but I'm obviously no expert.

I have a water separator about 3 ft. off the compressor and a small separator and desiccant drier right at the gun:





I wet sanded and primed the hood today so it's ready to repaint, but I have to wait for the fender pan to dry as I reshot it yesterday to get rid of a few dark spots I had:



I wish the bottom of the battery tray didn't look so bad.

I also reshot all the yellow that had runs and after I had everything cleaned up, I saw the tie-rods that I haven't painted yet. Oh well!!

Even though I planned on waiting a month before assembly, I couldn't help myself to mock things up a bit:







Got to head out of town for a couple of days, so I'm done for a while.

[ACecil]

Glad everything is coming together nicely! Great job!