so ive been making progress, its been surprising how easy everything has come apart compared to working on cars and vans that have been subjected to salty roads and are decades younger. ive cleaned off the chains with brake clean and penetrating oil to get them freed up. ordered and recieved some radiator/air/hydraulic inlet hoses, new thermostat(old one had fallen apart)
new grease nipples all round. adaptor for and new spin on oil filter, fuel filter, lift pump rebuild kit,new to me pair of rubber tractor lights(i only have one original headlight and its dented if anyones interested its for sale will take some pics)
have removed clutch cylinders and brake master for a stripdown rebuild (clutch slave had gone so will get that working and then have a go at freeing off the clutch before i go too deep)
flushed the water passages in the block, nice amount of butt mud came out ☺ radiator had abit of rusty sediment in the bottom but seems to hold water and is in decent shape(cant say the same for the grill have jumped on it abit so its abit straighter now!)
next job is draining remaining fluids and removing oil/fuel tanks as diesel is leaking from around sight glass and hydraulic fluid is leaking from the pressure pipe(hopefully is brazeable?) and the rubber strips that support them are all perished so will clean/repaint tanks and replace runbbers(strips of tyre rubber should do the job)
what was the origional paint colour of these? deep bronze green?
enjoying working on something where everything is nice and easy to access!