First let me say I was the Bad person that prompted this insanity, as Lilfoot really wanted the tractor and BH, and by the pictures it did look like it was in much better shape.
Me and Bearskinner took a road trip 16Hours round trip and picked it up.
All the time I was the fool that held out hope that it wasn't as bad on the inside as the outside looked, and really tried to get it whipped into shape before he got here, but fell flat on my backside with work on it and other work.
In my defence when we got to the tractor it was covered in a layer of oil, hydraulic fluid and dirt that covered most of the mismatched, cut, broken, poorly assembled parts up, so initually it didn't look all that bad.
I felt and feel really really bad, because Lilfoot was rather disappointed and let down when he got here to pick it up, think kid at christmas opening the toy he wanted all year, only to find it broken beyond repair ?!
Well lets start at the front of this fine Newer Model B7100HSTD.
Hood bolts...Missing but yes headlights intact, radiator looks like a fan ran into it, but surprisingly doesn't leak, radiator hoses mismatched, oversized, cut, and spliced, radiator bolts and mounts cobbled up mess, one long bolt one short bolt, cut pieces of tire for mounts, broken lower mount. Fan belt that was frayed and worn worse than I've ever see.
The front axle as Lilfoot said, rather odd, 4 lug, but a new style axle with little to no wear that I can feel. tires mismatched, one new on front and rear one old front and rear.
Front axle pin and frame, Worn 3/8" on the frame in the rear hole and 1/8" on the pin on the large side but little to no wear on the small end, castle nut is stretched and stripped.
Another gem is that they has cut and welded on the frame all over the place to attach ????, that will take some clean up.
Engine has been swapped out with newer D850, which when first arrived was seized. I tore into it to only be more and more disgusted as I went.
They installed the flywheel wrong and broke one bolt off and stripped two others, crank will need to be retapped to be useable!
In teardown I found the springs removed from the governor so this poor thing, when it ran, had to run horrible, glow plugs shot, still need to test injectors (not holding my breath on those being any good) and will need to rebuild the injector pump.
Tough tear down as it turned out #3 piston had gotten a tiny bit of moisture in it and rusted up very minorly, but enough to lock it up.
When I finally got all the pistons out, all the rings on all the pistons were stuck, tried to unstick them and ended up breaking one.
At that point I measured the cylinders to see if it was worth rebuilding and discovered there is little to no wear on the cylinders, they were still at factory new specs, it's like the motor never really has ever run?
Wiring, complete shambles, will need completely rebuilt!
Was surprised to find a new clutch, pressure plate, throwout bearing, but not surprised that there was no pilot bearing at all in the crank at all, not worn out just never installed, motor was probably from a mower that didn't use the crank to run a propeller shaft.
HST looks complete but I have not has power to run it, I've got my fingers crossed that it's good.
Onto the rear... WOW... that pretty much sums it up.
Bolts stripped, bolts replaced with oversized SAE, bolts that were the wrong length, but mechanically internally sounds good on static spinning of parts.
Top three point arms are there but one of the lift pins had been replaced with a SAE bolt, the other lift pin was missing washers and loose. the rest of the three point is missing.
Lets not forget to mention the rear hubs, One is in good shape, the other ...yikes, evidence that they had welded it onto an axle at some point, lucky enough it doesn't look like one of these axles, the hub has two broken studs, one stripped stud, and no colters (locks) so it only held on by the set pin and flops around incredibly bad.
Now for the fun:
Most would scrap it...well not me...it's just a challange!
Massive parts are on order right now:
Full Kubota OEM rebuild kit
Doner crank out of another motor.
Thanks to 007kubotaguy, new bolts for the flywheel.
All the OEM hoses, filters, filter screens, orings, and seals for shafts, hydraulics, motor, just everywhere.
Used good rear case (fix all the stripped bolts).
Complete OEM three point.
New hub
Pile of body and frame bolts and nuts and hardware off of a B7100 to replace mismatch or stripped bolts.
Radiator mounts.
That should whip it into shape and then we'll just fine tune it.
I'll still need a grill, side covers, HST cover, Seat and seat mount (Lilfoot took the one on it as it was for the BH), ROPS.
One thing I'm seriously considering changing is the steering to Hydrostatic steering, would make it super nice if it gets a loader later.
More to come...
