Carson's C-121

The pieces added to my painting kit for the 1-1/8" axles and front frame rods, and the pieces added to the motor painting setup, plus the fact of painting outside with the motor and transmission lifting setup could not have been any better.  No paint at all where it does not belong anywhere.  No unwrapping tape, no tape used, a ton less time, and 2 minutes in the blaster and everything is ready for the next one.  

The excitement started after the paint cleanup, starting to put things together.  Everywhere yellow zinc bolts are seen are grade 9 as always around here. 

The 6th pic shows a bag of carriage bolt spacers.  I bought them about 5 years ago because the OD is so small, but the sole purpose I use them for is to keep from marking up the new paint when putting things really nice like this together, especially in tight spaces.  They are just big enough to keep the sockets off of the paint.  When using impact tools this is important because I think all of this nice work getting marred up everywhere there's a bolt is terrible...  If you see bolts without them they were tightened from the other side, or somewhere where they were not needed.  They aren't needed on the wrench side, only on the socket side, the wrench doesn't move and make marks.

A lot of bolts are changed and correctly sized unlike the factory bolts, like in the transmission and other places.  The exposed threads just create a place for rust and make things harder to get apart later.  Plus it makes for a truly finished and OCD look lol...   

Once the motor and transmission were on the frame it was balanced enough to go on the forklift to get to both sides easier and keep going.  7PM again and time to go.  

 

Hi Gene it’s Carson, I saw your post o few pages ago Whalen you first started painting with that rust proof red paint, and saw that you said it wasn’t the right color wheel horse red but it would be covered up. So my question is, are you going to go back over it again in that same rust proof red, or with the wheel horse red?
 

Hey Carson.  

The rust proof paint goes only between things like the frame + rearend, front Tach-a-Matic bracket, etc, and places that were never painted at all from the factory, nowhere else.  The tractors were painted after a lot of things were already put together causing more rust.

The final Wheel Horse red (not an exact mix but close) goes on everything last, like in the last 4 posts when the final painting began.