Recent content by special t

The Bob cat piece is totally unrelated to the hand me down L245DT I'm now keeping FOREVER. The rest of my family would be sooo jelly if I could tansform pappys old tractor into a mini hoe set up. let me know how much headache this is really going to cause me and I'll get some pics and details...

Just so were clear I may as well start on the total wiring replacement? I kinda planned on it but definitely not without proper info. But I have that now. Pretty stoked right now too because my youngest brother, 12, was suckered into helping me today. Gave him the briefing on the way there he...

Thanks for the response. Kinda hectic for us this time of year. Had to finish up a project on our hydroseeder today didn't have time for tractor. I'll definitely have a pic or 3 posted in the next few days. Apologies in advance but f.e.l.? It has a pretty heavy duty mower deck and is equipped...

Congratulations ott this is the first forum I ever joined. While looking for info on a machine that was pretty much dropped in my lap I came across this forum with someone titling their conversation with "I'm no longer a virgin"... well me too buddy ***129315; the only piece of orange equipment...

While getting started on fixing grampas L245DT I noticed several wires disintegrating... trying to decide how deep i wanna go into bringing this beast back to life. Obvious sentimental value there and it would definitely be useful for loading dirt lifting pallets ect. The mower deck was dropped...

Hello, just joined because my grampas tractor has me searching the internet for a solid 12h. I would appreciate a real person with the knowledge to let me know what my best plan attack is. Is it possible this specific model is something special because it didn't come up easily with a Google...

Trying to make my grampas L245DT operational and most likely fully restored eventually. Its been sitting for a while and has had some "repairs" but I fixed the steering box and got it to crank by the time I got tired of tinkering. The usual electrical/seized parts/dry rot problems seem like the...

My uncle dropped off grampas 70 somethin tractor with no steering. I looked up a service manual and found that the operator manual was much more useful. The only accurate wire diagram out of the hundreds I looked at.(a printed copy in my equipment owned file now) While taking off dashboard fuel...

Am I safe to assume the 3 wire bundles zip tied under engine and to back of roll cage are for the lights? Also the operator manual I found online has 2 wire diagrams but I'm not seeing any differences. Thankfully theres only about 50 individual wires that should be there from the factory...

We called him pappy and miss him a lot. Pretty sure he bought it brand new and it still runs but I'm trying to restore it to at least original operating conditions. Maybe when I have the time and $ I could make it look new as well. Current issues include mystery wires and how to know if...