Update 9-5-22- Eviction of bees and gravy

 Labor day weekend!  

The time to rest and relax, or get armpit deep in a project that you thought would take half a day which makes you reconsider life choices.  Mostly on taking of radiator caps. 

We started a bit later in the day Monday.  I talked about starting Sunday and was hit with a wave of laziness and thought "Monday should be good enough".  I just need to change the sediment bowl screen, change a couple of fuel gaskets, maybe rebuild the carburetor.

Also and I'm going to check the radiator and...

ohhhhh gooood gravy
Gravy, was about the consistency of what I saw. It was majestic.

 

We pulled everything off and flushed out the entire system.

The radiator core looked worse than it actually was.  I was able to do a reverse flush which came out mostly clear.

Not a horrible ordeal but we had to stop before we put things back together because we are going to do some sand blasting on the tanks.  We also needed to buy new gaskets for the system which I have to order.

There is going to be some patching of our pipes as well.  I'm not sure what that patch is going to cost but I'm going to run it into the RDO Equipment Pasco Shop to see what their opinion is. 

Luckily the fuel system went together well and the entire carburetor is rebuilt. Those pieces went together like butter and we were able to find a rebuild kit for cheap on Yesterdays Tractors.  They do have rebuild gaskets for the 


MEANWHILE, in the couple of weeks since we worked on the Mabel Mae the Yellow Jackets have moved in and made a home. Hundreds of them and they would not take no for answer.  Even after 20 minutes they were hanging out around the tractor for NO REASON.  Go AWAY Barbara! 

They were EVERYWHERE.   

But that's OK, they were evicted from their mobile home 

That cheesy joke costs extra people...