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Picking up the 52 R With all four tires nothing more than rotten husks, we had little choice but to load it up with a big forklift. First we lifted the front end. |
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Picking up the 52 Then we scooted it onto the trailer. |
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Sitting over at my Friend Keiths For the major work of getting it moving, we took it over to my friend Keiths. There we replaced the tires. |
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New Rims Here we are with new rims, just getting ready to put on the new tires |
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Starting the pony motor I thought I would just see what happens if I got the pony motor running. Even after new plug wires and plugs it would not go. (That is my friend Keith in the background). |
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Pushing it back with the other treasures We used on of Keiths MM's to push the R back out of the way for a while until I had time to move it to my house. |
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That's me At the end of a long hot day (Arizona 112 Degree summer day) I felt a bit discouraged. |
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The Old Pony Motor So I pulled the pony motor off and brought it back to my shop where I could work on it in the shade. |
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View of my Shop This is where I spend my time, in my shop. Little did I know that it would be almost two years... |
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My Daughter I moved the whole thing into the garage and started tearing into it. Thats my daughter with the connecting rod that weighs as much as she does. |
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My Son So of course my son had to prove that he could lift it even.. |
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Back of the truck after a trip to shorty's I made a trip to see Shorty Dear and this is all the stuff I brought back. A front axle and pan, pony motor, block, platform, clutch, drawbar and some other bits and pieces. |
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More Shorty Stuff Just another picture of the load. |
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My Power Washing Setup Not having anywhere else to do it, I setup a powerwashing station hidden in my garage, so my neighbors wouldn't be able to complain. |
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Model R Reduction Gears The reduction gears were pretty worn, with bits of the teeth missing. They were replaced as well. |
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Rusted Out Oil Cans At one point, there was several inches of water in the crankcase, I can tell by the watermarks it was there a while. The Oil Cans were rusted out around the waterline. |
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Removing the Radiator Support I sent the front end support and the lower radiator to be dipped at the same time. When they came back I used a bolt, some washers and a piece of steel tube to pull the pin. |
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Cleaned up side covers Freshly back from being dipped. Both side covers. |
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The Main Case: Ready to paint The rear end and the crankshaft are back in. This was around Christmas of 2001. My dad was down and helped put the sliding gear drive back in. |
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Crankshaft Closeup The crank was in pretty good shape, didn't have to do much besides clean it up and check for straightness. |
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Front View Of Case I must have been in a picture taking mood. |
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Main Case Just before I started taping it up prior to painting. |
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Painted Main Case Several months and a couple dozen hours later. The main case is all put together and painted. I made a cover using the cylinder gasket so I could paint and not get any in the crankcase. |
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Yellow Parts The yellow bits got repainted as well. Several times in fact as I didn't like the first yellow that I got. Wasn't the same as the JD Yellow. |
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Green Brake Shoes Freshly painted brake shoes and the lower radiator housings. |
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Another view of the shop Another view of the shop, complete with lots of fresh greens. |
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Brand New Brakes I really like this, everything brand new on my brakes. Even replaced the brass bushings. |
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Early May 2001 Had the diesel all painted, just need the pony and some other bits here and there. |
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Same date, from the back It is starting to look like a tractor again. |
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From the front I get carried away on picture day. |
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Another shot from the front |
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Power-Trol Pump Had it all cleaned, time to put it all together. |
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Power-Trol Pump This is pretty cool. I found a repair kit with a spacer, new gears and housings. Makes my old pump brand new. |
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Power-Trol Pump #3 You can see the new pump down of the lower right. |
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Power-Trol #4 Using the cherry picker to put the rear housing in. |
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Power-Trol #5 Another shot, this time you can see the new pump. The fenders are painted at this point. |
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Rebuilding the Pony Managed to find a NOS pony motor block, new pistons, the works. The only thing not new was the crank, which I turned .20 under. |
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Pony On Test Stand I built a test stand to run the pony after it was all back together. |
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Pony On Test Stand Same shot as last time. |
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Pony Tranny The pony motor tranny, all ready to go. |
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Painting Control Rods Taken late at night, when dad can sneak out and paint stuff. Gotta love those hot Octorber nights. |
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R Intake Stack The air stack cleaned up very nice. Cannot tell it isn't new. |
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New Pistons! This is what the new pistons looked like. There are brand new, intended for a 720 Diesel but with a bit of boring on the block, fit just fine. You need to use the 720 injectors as the piston design is quite a bit different. |
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Installing the Pistons Installing the new pistons in the block. I had the block shaved .020 to get a nice new surface. |
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The day I started it This was taken the day I started it for the first time. |