Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

[David Bliss]

Years ago bought a scrapped Chinese tractor that had only been used for three years and then stood unused out for another eight and robbed of a few parts to keep another on the go. I bought it to repair and thought how bad could it be, it was really bad and still is as get a good day and think its ideal and does my things I want it for but just get things failing some is from its past neglect in standing out mainly its build quality, so had a gut full of electrical things fail and replaced with new Chinese but they fail or don't work as well so found just replace with old Lucas parts. Its lost oil pressure a few times once was away from home with no tools, luckily had some grips and unscrewed the relief valve and found a lump of plastic gasket stuck to the ball so quick fix then the sender unit failed and then the clock so this time just fitted a warning light with a pressure switch, cut back out of the clock and fitted a bulb unit in, only thing was welding the very thin tin gauge back on, so fix was much cheeper but fiddly but the old mig with the gas valve removed helps in stitching thin tin as more controllable in wire feed without it. Previous 58