[AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair

[DAVIESW739 at aol.com]

Lyle,
It all depends on what you are  restoring too. If its factory then the paint 
job will not be perfect and the  doors won't always fit and lots of little 
things that get by the final check.  But if you are restoring concourse d' 
elegance then its a whole different ball  game. You have to be perfect right down to 
having all the head bolts lined up.  
There are both ways to restoring a tractor or a car and both kinds of people  
who do it. I like both I like to see the concourse d' elegance but I also 
like  the factory jobs. What I don't like is someone who just sprays some paint 
on and  calls it a restore. There is a Farmall   Cub in town that a person did  
just that, gave it a good cleaning and sprayed red paint all over everything 
and  added some decals to it.  He is trying to sell it but most folks can see  
though the flashy paint job and are passing it up. 
My old 1945 Case LA is a  long way from being perfect as its a job in 
progress between using it on the  farm and slowly getting all the dents out and 
priming it as I go it will be a  while before I can get to the final paint job. But 
when I get there I hope it  looks real nice like Gene D's. does. Of course it 
does have to run good also as  I use it at the local tractor pulls. I was 
plowing up a half acre today with it  for a spring garden, it runs pretty good 
right now hope it stays that way. That  ground was hard I had resort to my two 
bottom plow to just make a full run  without stalling out and spinning the 
tires. It hard to spin 18.4 X 30 tires  with close to 9000 lbs on them but I did 
just that. This Oregon clay can get  real hard this time of year.
Walt