Hey Everybody!
Got a running 127 more-less done for my dad. Started out with a sad-sack machine that was sitting in a junk-pile behind a shop somewhere... pretty rusty, tires flat, but complete. This is the one that I managed to get the engine going with about a half-hour's TLC. The tank has been rinsed and nut-tumbled out, stripped, primed, and painted. Sediment bowl has new gasket, and carb got a total rebuilding, new float 'n valve, etc.
That particular tractor had other problems- wiring harness was crusty-rotten, and the S/R ratio shaft was seized up really tight... and the shaft twisted-off when I tried to loosen up the friction adjustment.
So I brought home the rolling chassis that Tom Harrison brought to Prophetstown. I moved the running motor over to the rolling chassis, replaced the driveshaft (it'd been sawed-off, darnit!) and replaced a broken-out frame bushing in the aft end of the axle-pin. Did some tightening-up work on the steering linkages, spot-welded a cracked hood brace, and attended to a half-dozen other misc. doo-dads, then stole a battery from an old Snapper Comet, and fired it up for a test forward-and-back in the shop. Runs nice, hydro's seemin' okay. Couldn't take it for a spin... first of all, it's 1AM, the muffler's missing some baffling (probably all, actually), and there's this extra-long wide-frame sitting in the way with a big 'ol diesel blocking my path... and the wife's car on the other side of the door.
Tomorrow, after she's gone, I'll roll the diesel-beast out of the way, and take the 127 out for a quick blast up to Dad's house, and see if he and Mom wanna take it for a test-drive. Needs a different seat, and a few other little things, but all in all, it's a fine machine!