hello everybody and welcome to part three of our restoration today we're on the engine
these beautiful little brigs and stratton industrial plus
all eight horsepower over i've had a few ideas and i've had a look around in our scrap shed for
to see what we can find to be able to sort out the air filter and exhaust issue to be able to lower
this down so that our bonnet can be back how as it should be so we can lower the source here which i
think is going to be reasonably easy because we should just be able to take that cover off
and the exhaust to be low enough my concern there is is it going to be too close to the bonnet
so then it gets hot and underneath so shall we take off that muffler and let the exhaust come
out the side and up like a traditional tractor make it look quite cool i know it's not original
a little flapper on the top going pop pop pop i think it'll be quite neat the harder bit is
the air filter housing so we're just going to whip that off a minute and then we'll have another look
so there we have it we have our nice little carb there biggest issue we've got is the choke lever
obviously works here i've looked around to see if we've got a different butterfly that
we can work into here to have a different one so we can put on the cable onto there instead
we'll make it work we're good enough for that it'll be fine but i think we're going to have
to cut this up to be able to lower that down the way we could do that is obviously replace the
air filter but that clips in here on the tabs on the side nice thing about it the tabs are
all the same spacing so we could lower that down one tab to there which then putting that back on
brings that level down to the same height as the exhaust so that is the same height of the
exhaust then a bonnet is gonna of course close some issues we've got a gap in there
we can fill that in with some we can build that up and put fill it in with silicone running outside
so the airfield will still get us a good seal last thing we want is holes where this should
be an airfield and also at the bottom so that'll be the case we'll put a panel over here and build
that in so i'm going to do that off camera and we're going to build that so that we can
make that work we'll then cut the top of this off all the way around there so we'll lose the top of
that but that will bring that level down so that they're all fitting under the bonnet the flap can
be closed and welded and we should hopefully work out a way to be able to make all that go together
but i'm going to do that off camera you don't want to watch me fiddling around with that do you so
i'm going to do that okay so that's one job i've got to do easy easy stay there right the other one
i'm going to whip that exhaust cover off a second just so we can have a look at that here we have
got a little tiny six mil bolt i don't have a six mil spanner gonna go get one adjustable will do
so i had glasses i can't see i'm blind as a bat you're lucky i can't even do this
by the way love my walkie stuff probably seen all our power stuffers milwaukee drills grinders it's
all milwaukee love it don't worry we know you there's probably some makita fans out there and
dewalt fans and even probably some ryobi fans but anyway it doesn't matter we like milwaukee let
us know what you like why is it on american made products every single nut and bolt is a different
size you get imperial you get metric you get in between you get everything so down here right
we've got a six nil bolt up here you've got a 10 mil bolt or three eighths could have been
whatever i just put in worked and then round here you've got another one find it it's a half inch
what a surprise now i've lost my half inch socket this isn't going great i'll find it bad one
that's quarter inch not 3 8. so we're just gonna find a 13 mil
so we have got that down so that's down to the right level engine
the bonnet engine bonnet bonnet will fit over that and the flap will be able to weld
down and close we've just got to work out that way of keeping that air filter lower quite confident
could be fine and everything that we know the engine runs like a dream so now we're just gonna
quickly strip off all the other bits put them into our piles that
need to be in for shot blasting and powder coating go from there so i'm going to whiz them
off
well look at this budge job look at this eh so like i said before they
wired this switch in so they could use the one on the dash fine for some reason
what the farmer job that isn't that proper farmer job
so we're just gonna cut just nasty horrid looking
we've taken the majority of it off we've we're going to try and take our pulley off got some grub
screws in some deep dark holes on there holding that one or we're going to need to get our air
hammer love a bit of air hammer to be able to get that pulley off us but he's fairly well on there
because if this engine was changed in when was it 97 ish thereabouts and that's been on there
20 plus years so i'm gonna go and do that get the air hammer on it should just walk it off if not
good old oxy settling will be fine to be able to warm that up and pull it off we'll just undo those
grub screws hopefully he says too big still too big too small traction but probably too
much it's a little bit play so what a surprise it's the american engine has an imperial allen
head on there we go engine is stripped down we're gonna get we're gonna paint that black by the way
just cause black is cool absolutely winning color all these little bits are gonna be
all these extra little bits are gonna be black even the fuel tank
bracket is gonna be black that can go that's scrap
and um yeah just clean up the alloy stuff then we're just gonna clean up the engine the best
we can we don't wanna strip it apart it works perfectly as much i'd love to do
an engine rebuild or at least a valve job another valve but we don't need to it's all
good we've seen it it works it runs it starts it fires it smokes it pokes it does what
we need it to do so we're going to leave that as it is by cleaning it all up nicely
also off camera between part two and part three so you could call it 2.5 off camera i've cleaned up
the gearbox with a wire brush and wire wheel i've sorted out all the tin work so that is now looking
pretty swish all ready to go to shop last this next week we are booked in to go and sort that
out we're gonna get everything shot last and powder coated what we're happy with we're then
gonna bring the one thing we're not going to power the coat yet is the bonnet the bonnet is not going
to get powder coated until we're going to bring the bonnet back all shot blasted fit it on make
sure it's right weld it up make sure it all fits and then we're going to take it back and they're
going to then powder coat it then in a beautiful goal that we keep mentioning and that will
sort that out but i don't want to get it all powder coated and then find out actually james
you've got to cut this bit weld this bit or make an adjustment now for the fit properly i think
it's going to be best to do it that way round although it's a little bit more travelling but
it'll look good on camera and that's what it's all about not original on the mother but when
we're on the mower when we're testing in part one you saw me flipping the old um governor over here
like that to make it rev because i'm a child sometimes
but i think it's going to make sense to have a foot throttle on it rather than a hand throttle
hand throttle was great because it used to have a mowing deck on it you needed to rev
a certain amount of reps we're not going to have a mowing deck on it we're not going to
have a rotavator on the back or anything else powered it's just going to be a tractor a tug
a trailer puller however many other names you can call it that's what we're going
to do so we're just going to hand the foot throttle so you can drive along change gearbox
that'll be fun whereas if you had a hand throw it's just all
revs and no fun so cool that's what we're going to do there we have the engine in bits as far as
we need to go we're going to clean it all up sort it all out shot blast it paint it
sticker it do what we've got to do and right so that's the engine that's all we're done
let's move on to something else and here we are so what we've got now is all the bits and
pieces that need some work we're not just doing a paint restoration we're doing a full restoration
anyway so we've got lots of bits that need some new little wiggly
bits and pointy bits and bearing bits and
bits anyway so we've got bits that need extra work bits we need to take to the
workshop to take apart bits that need new track rod ends look we've got a
it's got like a wiggly knob on the end it shouldn't be it should be more like
that one doesn't wiggle so much but they're all going to be replaced if i can find the proper
ones the right size whatever we'll make it fit but we need some more of them track rod ends
tie rod ends i don't know what they're called there's probably some technical term track rod end
track rod end that's the one so we've got other bits here all needs cleaning up this is the brake
bit i think on that yeah so it's got a little brake pad on the end there which looks a bit
mushed so we're going to see what we can do on that whether we just let
layer up some nice dishes leather or i'll try and get some leather from somewhere or maybe take my
belt off and use that who knows we'll work it out and there's another bit leather on that better
brake bit which goes around the old clutchy bit which is on the gearbox on the end of the
gearbox still that clutchy bit goes around on the gearbox there that brake comes down and grips it
so that needs a new bit of leather there someone's replaced it once before with a few rivets
we'll do the same but just a nice new bit on there so brakes need re-leathering
and all of the linkages this is the mower linkage we're still going to put it back underneath
in one form or another underneath and then we've got the old dubrimo what's it which
lifts it up we're still going to put that back on because i think it looks quite cool
never know you might need it one day just for a bit of leverage on something anyway we're going
to get all that cleaned up we're going to spray that by hand because even with a heat gun i don't
think we're going to get that off considering it's been there for 57 years did we decide 57 57
right the main pulley on the main drive driveshaft is you ready for the bearing movement
movie movie so yeah we're going to take that apart and pop a bearing in there somehow i don't know
but we need to get that off fast and that's going to have to be i think we're going to have to heat
and quench that off and get me old air hammer on the end of it to walk her off it'll work uh
steering bar and gear opinion whatever you want to call it is on the end of that get all that
cleaned up nicely not obviously paint that because it's got a slide back up through the steering
slide back up through the steering bit column column i'll do to go on there uh the battery tray
needs a new bit here because they've got a rust on there so we're gonna have to tidy that up a little
bit clean everything up on the wire wheel make it all look pretty and then obviously this will go to
get shot blasted next week um any bits of mist we've got a bit of linkage which is obviously
something that someone has made up cobbled together had a bit of fun with the drill
to make it make it go as well as planned and we'll try and make a better one
but we'll get there uh does it do more trackward ends on there that's on there
that's on the pedal that's from the pedal a bit that's what makes it
do something so that there's a new one on there um these are these just need cleaning up these
are the little wheel bushes that hold the front wheels on which came off really easily with an
allen key however many years ago that was anyway gearbox gearbox transmission baseplate we've
scraped off all that lovely what do we call it lovely brownness i think i use this to turn
under there scrape that off that's gone so no longer see of our lovely mushy stuff
underneath and clear that up good news i've saved the gaskets off the gearbox
transmission can everyone stop questioning me on whatever gearbox or transmission is both depends
where you're from anyway so that is the one off the top that goes on the top of the transmission
and that's the one off the bottom but i'm going to save them they're cool they work they're good
otherwise i was going to have to use silicon because there's no way i'd find that again or
forgot anything else no i think that's it so we're going to clean all that up saltwater now i'll show
you what i've done in part four five six seven eight nine joking there's not gonna be that long
but you got some shafts everything out clean all up make it tidy so that is the end of part
three i apologize it's only been a little short one some of you might like that but
hopefully it's been funny and informative so off about what we're doing where we're going
where we've been where we've come from and i'm gonna do the rest off camera on here
not the rest of the project but the rest of getting all this sorted out get a little
wobbly and wibbly bit sorted cleaning it all out because you don't want to see me sweat and dribble
and swear on camera i'll just show you the results so i'm going to see you in part 4. see you laters