Restoring old zetor tractors .............

few more pics of the restoration , we had an awfull job to get parts for this particular model as they were only two cylinder and rare enough around this neck of the woods .

hi lads thanks for the comments , yeah she is 1972 ,

Ive spoken to that Joe lad by telephone before , and i did see the article in Irish vintage , very interesting reading indeed

well the saga continues with us as like you said there was a 3511 lurking in the background and when we finished the 2511 we set to the 3511 straight away ,

we were a bit lucky with this one though as she had been owned by two brothers in longford who only used it for light work and going to the shops and mass so it really only needed a good service strip down and repaint ,

few pics ,

so now the bug had really bitten so we had to go on the hunt for the elusive 4511 , these turned out to be scarce enough and we hunted around for a good while before coming across one in galway for sale , she needed a nice bit of work too , brakes , steering , lift , front axle all needed attention but never the less we got there , few pics of before and after .

grrrrrr , computers , i swear i don't know what we did when we didn't have them !!!!!!!!!!!

anyway you get my drift , hopefully you can see the pics ,

so now we have just acquired the last in the series the 5511 and like them all it needs a fair bit of work etc but sure what else would ya be at ??

few pics of how she landed to us after spending a good few years in a field in roscommon ,

we will be staring work on it soon so i will keep you posted ,

thanks , yeah the ould fella has two of them a 65' and a 64 , both in great nick he just never has the time to drive them !!!!

ha ha yeah like i said its a disease , couple of other projects that are awaiting resto are ,

sierra van , one of only two believed to be left in existence anywhere ( only three ever made )

we managed to get the engine freed out but with huge difficulty , it involved stripping her right down and filling the bores with a mixture of WD 40 and paraffin and leaving her to stand for a couple of months !!!! , then we removed the sump and tried to jack one of the piston whilst rocking her in gear and another one of us trying to move the ring gear with a pry bar , lots of stripped knuckles , sweating , cursing and swearing later and she let a big " crack " out of her and i thought that's it she's ****ed now but lucky enough she let go and it seems to be free now , we haven't done much more with it since except wash it but it awaits a resto too , some more pics ,

ha ha yeah i know , the ould fella is going off the head , he had to build a new shed this year to house it all !

few more pics of the " clean up " ....

we had to evict about ten rats nests and i couldn't get the back door open so i had to crawl in through the front and shimmy through all the gunk to chisel the rear door open !!!!!!!!

we also took four heaped wheelbarrows of ****e out of the front and back of it .not good .:(:eek:

again she is still waiting on the welding etc but its all time and money !!!

i got her running well and threw an interior back into it and here's how she looks now ,

:up: nice wee machine that Sean , thanks for sharing ,

well here is another update , i finally got the 4511 running after some fetling , the pressure was on as there was a local tractor run on last Sunday and seeing as the weather was so good we decided to take the three zetors on the run ,

now bear in mind the 4511 had never ran since we bought it over two years ago , i managed to get her going but she was pissing out oil and water from loads of different places , this was on Friday night and the run was on Sunday , next morning myself and the ould fella headed off early to AGRIGEAR in cavan for two new sets of front tyres ,

he has a massive set up there and i would highly recommend them for any tyre or rim needs you might have , when we got there one of the rims we had was rotten and low and behold he had one brand new , it had turned a bit rusty over the years but he ran out the back and put it into a massive shot blaster and brought it up like new , the stud holes were slightly smaller too so he stuck them in the machine and drilled them out then stuck on the new tyre , he couldn't have been more helpful , well worth the trip .

big sprint home to try and get the tractor finished for Sunday , we managed to sort the oil leak handily enough just a few o-rings but the water leak was a different story , after a lot of head scratching it turned out that the next problem was the water pump ,

thank god my ould fella never throws anything away , four water pumps later and we managed to stem the leaking water but it was now 10 on Sunday morning and the run was at 11 ,

we got the three tractors ready and headed off only for the 4511 to airlock , would she hell bleed either , turned out the tap coming from the tank was blocked and the little pipe that sits in it had fallen off so all the crud in the tank was blocking the pipe ,

got that sorted and headed for kinlough with seconds to spare , the run was over 60 mile but all three tractors went well so we were chuffed ,

i have a few photos to share but i nearly ended up with none and a bill for a new I- PHONE !!!

when the 4511 was air locked and i was trying to bleed it i got a phone call , when i was finished i threw it on the step of the tractor and forgot about it , three mile up the road i reached for the phone only to remember where i had left it !!!!

the ould fella was behind us in the car so i ran him back to look for the phone and he found it in the middle of the main road with cars whizzing by but luckily it was not damaged phew .............

anyway enough raving form me here are the few pics i took .

thanks for all the kind comments lads , yeah im keeping my eye out for a " crystal " , maybe even a six cylinder one !!!!!

in response to your post mo-chara1 , if you ring barlows in England they will post you the chrome you need , they were the only ones that we could get the chrome from , its expensive enough for that particular piece £85 sterling i thing not including postage but it really finishes the tractor off .

here is a link to their web site

http://www.zetorspares.com/

hi colm , thanks for that lad , yeah we are going down with the three of them .

another update lads , we finally got her finished at last , here are a few pics ,

thanks mate , ah sure its only an ould hobby for us and it keeps the ould fella out of the pub lol .

heres a few pictures of our next awaiting projects ,




its a 5611 that has been abondend under a tree for over twenty years , when we got it the back and a nd the engine had siezed solid but when we got it home we discovered that the handbrake bands had siezed onto the brake hubs so we jsut cut them off and got her free , we then pulled out the four injectors and sprayed in a drop of wd40 into each cylinder and gave her a gentle tow and whey hey away she went , stuck the injectors back into her and fresh drop of diesel and she runs like a small watch , the cab is red rotten and will need extensive work or replacing we haven't decided yet .