Matt's Raider 12

Trade you for a day or two lol.

Last update for the day, everything is going well minus having trouble finding a screen, one will show up. Decals did come in today. Will prob start on the wiring harness tomorrow.

Looks great, I always enjoy the project when you finally get to the clean stuff, like decals and wiring.

Me too Motor.

I have however spent the past several hours doing something new and getting it to my satisfaction. The dash was looking real good but the light switch was ugly and stuck. I figured I take these apart all the time in cars and rebuild them for people so what's so different about this one... Now that I know how it will be done, the best look for the bezel and have Ivory plastic dye in stock it should go a lot quicker. Now on to something more productive. :rolling

Just some more pics.

More parts are on and the blasting is done, belt guard is done too. It does look like the entire topside hood and rear pan will have to be spot puttied, the rust was a lot deeper than it looked before they were blasted. No biggie lol.

Gonna spend the next few days fixing a neighbors Horse, getting mine out and ready to mow, and trying to round up a final part for Matt's Raider. In case no one here has seen this around the Wheel Horse FB pages, anyone have a Kohler K Series big block grass screen?

I was in the dollar general market today and they had lots of grills and stuff for cooking out....but they also had these round screens for a grill that looked a lot like a grass screen that you need and might even be better........if you get time take a look maybe on line or a store.... :sun

Seeing all those pictures of progress on this project makes me want to get started on another horse. It sure looks good.

You should do another Motor, or better yet, move up here and help me lol.

Other than my prototypes, Matt got the 1st custom plug wire and the 1st custom battery cable set, I'm really happy with the parts and the crimp quality. The battery cables are 6 gauge fine stranded 100% copper welding cable, and the ends are 100% Annealed Electrolytic Grade Copper. All parts for the plug wires and battery cables are also Made in USA. And yes they are color coded, would you expect any less from me...

I need to fill you all in on some of the new projects going on. The cable crimper is a 16 ton hydraulic crimper. It is also 3 times the pressure what I need to make all of the lift cables, working on the parts for those now and some other things.

wow great wires..i say those should handle what ever you throw at them..... ......and also CRAZY weather here today..................

Did you get the blizzard while the sun was shining bright? That happened here today, couldn't hardly see the highway from the shop. Wrong time of the year for this...

The rust pits in the hood and rear pan were a little too deep, 1st coat of flex spot putty is drying now.