Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT A new lease on life: 30x40 schoolhouse conversion

[jollygreengiant]

Maybe your can came over here after the war after it was “liberated” from a shop.

Can you fill the trench before cold weather and just leave it open where you need to make connections?

We have a thread here on “show your oilers”. Take a look and post some of your glamor shots.

Show your oiler cans

I've always been a little intrigued by oiler cans. Aside from being indispensable on the workbench they often look so interesting. I have to stop myself from buying them when I see them at flea markets, I almost brought home a 2 quart oil can the last time I was at a flea market. As much as I...

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I did manage to get the trench filled in, but likely won't get it hooked up this year.

That's an interesting idea about the can, I never thought it could be that old.

Wow, that is a lot of trenching for the rainwater. I'm really interested to see how it turns out.

I really should have rented a trenching machine for the day. The ground was very hard so it was very hard digging with the loader. My knee isn't 100% and it really didn't like the constant clutching I had to do.

 

[Prospecter]

FWIW, I rented a trencher machine for the day, and ended up doing must of the trench with my front loader.

 

[xtremek]

Looking good there. I need to go check out the oil can thread, so I'm glad you brought it up.

 

[jollygreengiant]

FWIW, I rented a trencher machine for the day, and ended up doing must of the trench with my front loader.

That was one of the reasons why I didn't go the trencher route. And it turned out to be quite valid, I dug some pretty good size rocks up with the loader.

Looking good there. I need to go check out the oil can thread, so I'm glad you brought it up.

I went back in that thread a bit, and wow there are a lot of different styles of oilers that I didn't know about.

 

[jollygreengiant]

So I'm a bit behind on updates and I've been trying to catch up on posting them but staying in chronological order.

I think I'm going to make an exception for this one.

We welcomed our second child into our family last week. My son!

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Congrats!

 

[OutlawDrifter]

Congrats!

 

[zanyad]

Congratulations!!!

 

[xtremek]

You win!!!! Very cool. Congrats to you and yours.

 

[jon72vega]

Congratulations!

 

[Chrisb62]

Congratulations, nothing is better than another child!!

 

[Ford52PU]

Great news!! Congratulations to you and your wife.

 

[JJC]

Congratulations

 

[jollygreengiant]

Thanks everyone!

 

[bugnut]

Outstanding Congratulations!!

 

[iced98lx]

Woohoo! Congrats ya hoser!

Best thing that has ever been gifted to me is children, I'm sure you'll find the same.

 

[Mezz2006]

Congratulations!

 

[jollygreengiant]

Well I'm currently nap trapped so seems like a good time to do some updates lol.

I decided to move things around a bit in the shop. This wooden shelf unit is to the right of where my workbench and toolboxes are. I decided to swap it for my new to me hardware cabinet and my chemicals cabinet. The chemicals cabinet used to be at the other end of the shop from my workbench, which made for a lot of walking. This layout is much nicer.

I've also been trying to tidy things up as I did this, as you can see it's a bit messy.



And the new layout. The old wooden shelves are going to be used for outdoor/garden stuff and less frequently used tools. It will be going where the chemicals cabinet was by the big door.



I had a job that called for the use of a drill press, so I drug out my Dad's old one to see if it would work. It fired right up!




Discovered on a camping trip that a bunch of the caulking around the windows on this trailer had cracked. Put it in the shop when I got back so I didn't need to worry about it getting rained on before I got it fixed. My 3rd door came in handy again.




Had some landscaping work done. They took the slope out of the ditch so that I can actually mow it now. And they put down gravel for next year's shed project.



Made some shelves for the baby's room. These turned out pretty good for just being leftover pine boards from the shop siding.

 

[jollygreengiant]

Here's a photo dump of some nature pics that I thought were really cool.

September sunset from the front of the shop.



Frosty morning on this wheat field.




The beaches of lake Huron. The water was about 20⁰ in late September.



And here's a bunch of the northern lights from the backyard. This was from that solar storm back in early October, and this was by far the best northern lights show I've seen. It started around 7pm that you could see it on camera but it was extremely faint to the naked eye. But around 10pm it really increased in intensity to the point you could easily watch it with the naked eye.

 

[murd]

The northern lights have been crazy around here this summer as well.

 

[OutlawDrifter]

Great nature pics, thanks for sharing!

I've been cleaning and rearranging in my shop the last 2 days...gaining, I think

 

[captain14]

Great pics of the light show and shop upgrades.

When are you allowed to take the new guy out and introduce him to the shop?

 

[PhantomEB]

Love this thread!

 

[Ford52PU]

Great progress and pictures. We even saw the Northern Lights in eastern PA. I had never seen them live before it was beautiful.

 

[dmittz]

Sorry if this is a little belated, but Congradulations on welcoming your son to your family!

 

[jollygreengiant]

The northern lights have been crazy around here this summer as well.

Great progress and pictures. We even saw the Northern Lights in eastern PA. I had never seen them live before it was beautiful.

Maybe it's happened before and I never paid attention to it but I have never seen the northern lights until this year. Won't hurt my feelings if it becomes a semi regular event!

Great nature pics, thanks for sharing!

I've been cleaning and rearranging in my shop the last 2 days...gaining, I think

I would love nothing more than to get this shop properly organized, but that's going to have to wait until I can get the inside finished. I don't want to get cabinets/benches/etc installed only to have to take them down again. Oh well, someday I can get it actually organized. For now I just try and keep it functional.

Great pics of the light show and shop upgrades.

When are you allowed to take the new guy out and introduce him to the shop?

Oh he's already been out lol. Though not for long, it's getting cool here.

Love this thread!

Thanks!

Sorry if this is a little belated, but Congradulations on welcoming your son to your family!

Thanks! Hopefully one day they'll both be hanging out in the shop too. Though his older sister already asks to go out to the shop. There's something fun about working on a project while a toddler zooms around you on her tricycle lol.

 

[jollygreengiant]

Does anyone know what these are? There was a whole bunch of them in different sizes that came out of my new hardware cabinet. That cabinet came from the estate of a gentleman who used to build and work on organs, so I'm assuming it has something to do with that.

 

[jollygreengiant]

I was getting tired of the tractor being so hard to start so I decided to dig into that project before winter got here. Of course it snowballed as soon as I touched it lol.

I'm sure that's making a really good connection....



This is the clutch pedal. Just a bit of wear where the linkage attaches to the pedal. Should probably get that fixed before it let's go.




I've known these where in here for a bit, time to fish them out.



Turns out there was another one hiding in the other side of the tank. You'd think the previous owners would have learned not to do that after the first time they lost a spout into the fuel tank. But apparently it took three times to figure it out lol.

 

[xtremek]

That's absolutely hilarious!!! What are you going to do about the clutch arm?

 

[jollygreengiant]

That's absolutely hilarious!!! What are you going to do about the clutch arm?

He's alive! You have any snow over there yet?

I sent it out to a local machine shop. I don't have the tools or the skills to deal with cast steel.

 

[Juiced06GTO]

Congrats on the little guy!! Just trying to get caught up on the guys I was following and saw the post! The fun begins with two, just wait til a third comes along and you have to switch to zone defense! (I've got 3 boys and it is constant states of chaos lol!!)

 

[burger]

Damn man that tractor's lead a hard life! You can fix it though! How the hell did that many gas spouts end up in the tank? All of mine have collars that screw to the can.

 

[jollygreengiant]

Congrats on the little guy!! Just trying to get caught up on the guys I was following and saw the post! The fun begins with two, just wait til a third comes along and you have to switch to zone defense! (I've got 3 boys and it is constant states of chaos lol!!)

Thanks! Yeah it's already fun with two, I can only imagine what it will be like when he's bigger let alone 3 of them lol.

Damn man that tractor's lead a hard life! You can fix it though! How the hell did that many gas spouts end up in the tank? All of mine have collars that screw to the can.

I really don't know how they managed to do that, let alone three times. It certainly has had a hard life. I'd like to think that this will be a nice easy retirement for it but there's things it needs done that I'm not really getting to. Like the wiring, the only thing that works is the temp guage and engine rpm. It really needs gone through and re-done but I just don't have the time for that right now. And fixing the breaks would be nice too. But about all I can do with it right now is whatever it needs to stay running and functional.

 

[captain14]

You will have some time in about 25 years…. Don't know if it’s before or after the Avalanche tucked in the back.

 

[jollygreengiant]

You will have some time in about 25 years…. Don't know if it’s before or after the Avalanche tucked in the back.

Yeah....that's another thing I need to deal with. I think I'm moving towards a certain option in my head, but I haven't decided fully on that yet.

 

[jollygreengiant]

OK, so the main reason I started work on this tractor (this time) was to fix a fuel leak that was making it very hard to start. The leak itself was actually the gasket in the head of the fuel pump; you could watch it drip while the tractor was running. The pump itself wasn't hard to get out. The hard, well not hard but intimidating part, was removing the pump and reinstalling while keeping everything in time. This was the first time I had worked on something that involved engine timing so I was a bit nervous. But I did manage to get the pump out. This is the access cover to get at the pump drive gear. It made access for removal easy. Removal was a bit tricky as I didn't have the right puller. I ended up putting the nut back on but just flush with the end if the pump shaft and hitting it a few times with a brass hammer.



You can see some of my marks I made in the pic, I basically marked everything so that I could match things up for reassembley. I also managed to not drop the key from the pump driveshaft into the engine cover during removal, so that was a win!

And here is the pump itself. I sent this out to a local injection pump shop to have them reseal it.



While waiting on the pump I tackled a few other things, some of which I listed above. I also took the oil cooler off to fix this leak.



I didn't get a great pic of it but you can kind of see in the pic above how gummed up the cooler was. Fortunately I had a lightbulb moment and used the hot water spigot I plumbed into my garage to turn my little electric Stihl pressure washer into a poor man's hot washer pressure washer. It worked really well.



Back on the tractor, and waiting for the pump. You can also see that my wonderful red floor is fading with wear lol.

 

[dmittz]

Nice work on the tractor repairs, once you get the pump back i'm sure it will run great!

 

[xtremek]

He's alive! You have any snow over there yet?

I sent it out to a local machine shop. I don't have the tools or the skills to deal with cast steel.

Yeah, been a busy fall working on momma's She Shed and working with my better half. No snow here right now, though we've had a couple of light dustings. Next time you need to degrease something, spray it down with Dawn Powerwash a couple of times first.

 

[jollygreengiant]

Well I got the pump back, and managed to get it installed without dropping the key for the driveshaft down into the front cover.




Had to take some time and deal with some more wiring issues.




And then that little b*****d Murphy had to show up again...

I was trying to get this tractor put together on a weekend, as they were talking about a lot of snow coming our way on the Monday/Tuesday so I needed my snow blower in operation.

With that being said, you'll understand why I uttered such an amount and variety of curse words when I did this.



Those pieces on the floor are the remnants of the glass fuel filter bowl on the tractor. I decided to change both filters since I had to bleed the whole system anyway. But of course, there I was on a late Saturday afternoon after all the parts stores had closed with a big snowstorm coming Monday. And what did I do? Let the filter bowl slip out of my hands and hit the concrete floor.

Well after a lot of rather loud swearing I started to put my brain back in gear and see if there was a way to get the tractor functional. Fortunately this tractor has two filters so I could run it on only one filter, but I needed a way to join the two banjo ends together and bypass the broken filter. A whole bunch of copper washers, some big metal washers that I had to drill out, and a long enough bolt got me this.



And it actually worked! Not great anyways as it leaked a fair bit of fuel, but the tractor was running. And it was just in time, we had no snow on the Sunday at suppertime. Twenty four hours later this is what we were up to:



ETA: Well, sorry guys. For some reason I can't upload more pics. I'll try again later.

 

[larry4406]

Anneal your copper washers to make them soft and try again.