Thread: 95 F-350 Make Over

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How about the old PTO driven hydraulic pumps, any of them around that could be put back in service????

Yep.. that's the right color!

Although now I'm spending more on the Yellow / White line than the red!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

How about the old PTO driven hydraulic pumps, any of them around that could be put back in service????

Dave, the problem there is that when you release the clutch, the PTO stops. The hydraulic pump is currently driven off the input shaft. The engine driven one is the answer to cure it though.

Originally Posted by 34_40

Yep.. that's the right color!

Although now I'm spending more on the Yellow / White line than the red!

My friend and his dad had quite the collection of the Minnie's if that's the yellow and white you are speaking of. Cool tractors, but costly to get parts for for sure. Wait, they all have that.

I love mini mo's.. but they are cost prohibitive for me now. My current yeller/white fever is the cub cadets.

Awww, I gotcha. I have a few of those as well. Mainly parts tractors as I'm collecting pieces to build the kids a half scale tractor. Plan was to build a 560, but I'm not sure what model I'll go after now. I am leaning towards a mini A or B JD, but the engine placement kills that. I still might go with a 460 or 560 and I have a 7hp Hatz diesel to put in it also. We'll see. I can't even stay on this ford truck very long to make any big progress.

I know the feeling.. of both, having the time/concentration for 1 topic and then sticking to a plan of what I want to build..

I've got 2 first model CC's a model 73 and a model 169... only the 73 got done so far. I ended up taking on a couple 50's Tiger tractors to rehab for some guys.

Not anything exciting to report on this project. I did get the new tank all finished up. The factory fuel gauge actually works now, and I finally found a fill tube end for it. Now I have to get a fuel rated 1/2" hose for the fill vent. Then I have to get on the body work and shoot it so I can start driving it agian. It won't be long and I'll be missing the 4x4. Oh, too late. I was worried the fuel system would be real hard to prime as it's been sitting so long. It primed really easy and I was glad about that.




I've been working on cleaning up behind the shop, and trying to organize and clean up the shop. It was bad, real bad. I hauled a customer's truck off last week and got all the pieces that were laying in our yard gone with it. I doubt I'll ever get paid from him as he has more stories than anyone I've met. But, I have two of his engines I'll hold on to until he coughs up some money. Man, people these days.....

I also have been working on a new heating system in the shop. Last weekend I purchased an old fuel oil/diesel burning furnace. I'm going to put this in my north bay of my shop. Today one of my black friday purchases was a 17k btu electric infared heater I'll put in the south bay. I'm thinking these will be better than salamanders as they can stink, are loud, and make it nearly impossible to paint with them running. We shall see.

No updates on this one. It's been sitting outside waiting and rusting while I clean up outside and try to finish the inside of my south bay. I did get the new electric heater hung, I almost got my north wall insulated and finished lining it. I started on the north wall of it, which is the worst to do. It has odd placed braces for the trusses which makes it hard to line. I didn't get any time to mess with it lately. This weekend I had to remove the rear wheels, and a fast hitch off a junk 460 diesel I just had to buy 2 years ago. Then I yanked a 5.9 cummins and 47re out of a 00 Dodge 3500. On Sunday I took the wife and kids out for lunch, we ran some errands, then I went to the shop at 3pm. I decided since it was 53* I needed to get my storage unit shelving finished. The problem with that is, my end pieces were sitting under 2 engines and a transmission on my heavy racking outside. I got all that dug off them and started putting my shelves up. Well, I promised my wife I'd take her out to eat at one of our favorite restaurants. They just built a new one by the Bass Pro shop in Altoona recently, and she has mentioned she really wanted to go. It's probably been a year and a half or longer since we have been out just her and I, so I wasn't letting her down. She told me to stay there and finish up and forget it because it was supposed to rain Monday. I told her no, I'd just come back after we picked the kids up from my parent's place and finish. Well we did go to dinner, it was great. I did go back and finish up. I got there at 10:15 and finished up at 12:15. Not too bad. I was using our skid loader to move these engines and I had 3 transmissions to put in here plus one transfercase. All this stuff has been outside under tarps or other creations to keep them dry. It isn't real clean and perfect, but this is way better than it was before. i had my brother come help me put the frame to the 40 back in, and he helped me drag one engine to the right shelf. I had to drag one engine in the rest of the way. You have to get creative when these engines weigh roughly 900lbs as a long block. Luckily I went back and finished as I have been working 12hr days this week, and it rained like mad off and on all day yesterday.

More pictures of the storage box. In that stack of mess, there are 4 12v 5.9 cummins engines, 2 NV4500 transmissions, a NP205 transfer case, and an A1000 series allison transmission. Once I get some help, I'll re-arrange it nicer. All this shelving should make it real nice to get some stuff out of the shop and help out the organization. You can see the Hemi for the 40 in the first lower shelf on the left. The frame and rear end are straight back in the middle.

Stuff, stuff, and more stuff. You are one person that could take a year off to play with his stuff and never get bored.

Originally Posted by Scooting

Stuff, stuff, and more stuff. You are one person that could take a year off to play with his stuff and never get bored.

Yeah I could. Part of my parts storage issues are, some of this big stuff isn't mine. I've got a couple long term customers and some times I get stuck setting on their inventory. That's fine as long as they get used and gone eventually. That 00 Dodge was a customer's. He sold the truck without the engine and trans for $1500. he paid $2000 for it, and now the engine will go in a F-550, sometime? Haha

And here you go in another thread making progress around the shop! Crap, now I feel like a slacker! LOL..

I've done some cleanup around my shop.. more re-organizing and shaking out the mess.. can't seem to remember to take pics! HMmm..

I also moved the lathe after making some room, I'm hoping to brighten up the area 'cause my eyes need the help! So I put the lathe against a wall and will paint the wall white and add a bigger / brighter light.. and I made a base for a new bench , just need to do a top and then setup the small horizontal mill. I just love buying tools/tooling!

I'd love to have a lathe too! I'll post pics of the work I'm doing to my south bay. Once I have it clean enough to present. It's a disaster right now...................

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

I'd love to have a lathe too! I'll post pics of the work I'm doing to my south bay. Once I have it clean enough to present. It's a disaster right now...................

Well if you can post a pic of that.. I'll try to get a pic or 2 of my "re-organization". But I probably won't get there until the weekend.