MASSEY FERGUSON 135 ( MF 20 INDUSTRIAL ) FULL RESTO

greendragon3

pablo128 wrote: »

You could offer to restore old Jacks FOUR HUNDERD EXCAVADER! LOL. :pac:

jesus id say that yoke is well shook be now !! didnt he sell it to "Dakota" Fred when they got kicked out of Porcupine Creek ??:cool:

scudster

greendragon3 wrote: »

ha ha thanks lad , funny you should say that , i had a fella approach me a while back wanting to do a fly on the wall time lapse type documentary similar in concept to American chopper of all things and he wanted to present it as a pilot to the discovery channel , he said no one was doing anything yet regarding tractor restoration and they would go for it !!! i said we would think about it

Do think about it. I'd be a fan

pablo128

greendragon3 wrote: »

jesus id say that yoke is well shook be now !! didnt he sell it to "Dakota" Fred when they got kicked out of Porcupine Creek ??:cool:

I think they tried to borrow it back a series or 2 ago and it blew up on them!

SmartinMartin

greendragon3 wrote: »

ha ha thanks lad , funny you should say that , i had a fella approach me a while back wanting to do a fly on the wall time lapse type documentary similar in concept to American chopper of all things and he wanted to present it as a pilot to the discovery channel , he said no one was doing anything yet regarding tractor restoration and they would go for it !!! i said we would think about it

Go on, I'll give you my goldbelly for it!


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greendragon3

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Go on, I'll give you my goldbelly for it!


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no problem , id love to do her up for ya , i see you have the original roll bar waiting to go on her too .

greendragon3

update time again guys , so the tractor is split and i took some pictures as promised , you can see the wear on the clutch shaft so ive been trying to track down a new one and if that fails i can get one made .

greendragon3

we got some new parts delivered up on Saturday evening including an original Lucas horn button and some real nice " proper type " hose clips and the sought after brass bush that holds the elusive rubber boot onto the brake cable on the rear hubs , ive been informed that this has come from America and was the only one in stock anywhere !!!!

greendragon3

so we will be a few days waiting on the parts so that we can put the tractor back together so i decided to get stuck into the Duncan cab and get it stripped down ready for wire brushing and shot blasting .

greendragon3

there is some heavy pitting here and there in the areas where the water might lie but overall she is very solid and a great base to work from , i cleaned some of it off with the 9" grinder and wire brush and it came up surprisingly well , you will notice in one of the pictures that she has an original " rod " operated wiper motor , it would be nice to source one of these and keep the thing as original as possible , the owner has been on to someone that still has spares for Duncan cabs so fingers crossed .

greendragon3

so its another update guys , today was spent wire brushing in earnest , lots of little parts to be done individually , on a side note im using a full face mask and i changed the filters yesterday after a month and the amount of stuff that had gathered in the old one was frightening .

greendragon3

for those that are interested we only use " knotted " wire brushes from Jefferson , we have tried numerous different makes over the years and they all tend to shred themselves after very little use and you end up with a belly full of shards of wire ( got one embedded in my hand one day , such a job to get him out ) , you can work the Jefferson ones right down to the nib with out a bother .

greendragon3

so i tackled the " little " parts .

greendragon3

while the brother got stuck into the back end of the tractor .

SmartinMartin

Is the owner going back to the original yellow?

mickdw

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Is the owner going back to the original yellow?

I have my eye on a late model 135 myself. Rough enough shape now but is a late model and has the right duncan cab on it from new. I believe it has that exact seat that in going into this one too.
Wold love to do it in yellow too as it was yellow before it was red.
What would the parts spend come to for a full rebuild like this one roughly?

greendragon3

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Is the owner going back to the original yellow?

yep original yellow , ive ordered 8 litres of it from sparex ,had to come from England so i ordered enough to have it all the one batch , should be here tomorrow .:)

greendragon3

mickdw wrote: »

I have my eye on a late model 135 myself. Rough enough shape now but is a late model and has the right duncan cab on it from new. I believe it has that exact seat that in going into this one too.
Wold love to do it in yellow too as it was yellow before it was red.
What would the parts spend come to for a full rebuild like this one roughly?

haven't a clue yet mick as there is a lot of tooing and froing with parts at the moment , ill let you know when we are nearing completion , good luck with your resto if you decide to take it on .

SmartinMartin

Excellent, if I ever get around to mine I'd definitely go the original yellow route too.

greendragon3

mickdw wrote: »

I believe it has that exact seat that in going into this one too.

should have the seat back from pj kerr in laoise on monday so i will get pictures up for you to look at then .

BigWill

You can get a new motor and box kit for landrover defender from paddocks spares for small enough money and just small mods to make it fit. I think no mods needed if you use the tube you have, done it years ago to Massey steel cab.

BigWill

Try this
http://www.paddockspares.com/rtc3867-wiper-motor.html

zetecescort

BigWill wrote: »

You can get a new motor and box kit for landrover defender from paddocks spares for small enough money and just small mods to make it fit. I think no mods needed if you use the tube you have, done it years ago to Massey steel cab.

put one for an old type Mini in a Duncan cab a few years ago. I guess someone like Lucas supplied the same motor to a lot of British car and tractor makers

Nekarsulm

Did you get the brake rod end brackets sorted?
Saw this in the local yard this morning. Don't know if it's the same or not.

greendragon3

wow nice find , i wonder if that's off of something bigger or newer than a 135 as i see a remotely operated PTO lever of some sort on the side there , it looks like the same brake control rods though !!!

greendragon3

hello all , im back after a wee hiatus , myself and the wife were ten years married last weekend and she whisked me away for a night to the farnham estate in cavan , the brother has been slaving away on his own while i was absent so i dont have a lot of pictures to share but we have mostly been cleaning flat out and ive tried my hand at a bit of sand blasting yesterday too , this turned out to be a fecking nightmare because i got fairly coarse grit silicone based sand and it wouldn't go through the fecking nozzle on the blaster so i had to modify one from an old air connection , it worked alright but was a bit heavy on the sand so it didn't have the desired effect i was looking for , anyway you live and learn i guess , i will be better prepared the next time ,

anyway the first few pictures show the new clutch pedal/shafts ( we had to get the longer of the two made as it was not available from stock ) and brass bushings fitted and the tractor back together .

greendragon3

and my foray at sand blasting !!!

greendragon3

ive ordered a few different size tips to control the sand better and i will have another lash at it soon , i really wanted to get into all the corners and impossible to reach areas on the cab especially where i cant get with the wire brush !

greendragon3

and finally for today we have nearly finished the wire brushing on the tractor itself so we threw the wheels back together and got her ready to be rolled out for one final quick wash and De-greasing on Saturday !!

emaherx

greendragon3 wrote: »

wow nice find , i wonder if that's off of something bigger or newer than a 135 as i see a remotely operated PTO lever of some sort on the side there , it looks like the same brake control rods though !!!

Perhaps something newer, I think anything bigger would have disk breaks for the main foot breaks and just single drum breaks for the hand break.

greendragon3

evening all , just another wee update from today , i was wire brushing the cab and the brother was at a few of the smaller bits including the tank , its slow monotonous work but what can ya do , has to be done !!!