Re: (ET) Rust on an E20, repair time...

[David Brandt <ev_dave13 yahoo com>]

The sides are held by 1 screw in the front casting, one in the dash, and 
three through the frame.  Sometimes they have been replaced by pop rivets.

The new side panels Jim has work great.  There may be some misalignment of 
the pilot hole/slots, but that should not be much.  You may have to match 
drill 1 hole on each that winds up being off by 1/2 a hole or so.  These 
tractors are all a bit different in their dimensions, so this is normal.  
All the holes for the PTO and accessory outlet seem to match up no problem.

They come powder coated, so you don't *have* to paint them.  PC is tough 
as nails and it matches the factory color.

Since I hate the dirty brownish yellow factory color, I did paint them, 
with Valspar's "tractor and implement paint".  It seems to work good, and 
I have seen good reviews on it from other forums, too.  Takes forever to 
dry, but you can buy a catalyst to speed up the cure.  (I prefer "New 
Holland Yellow")

On the inside, I put the spray on truck bedliner paint over the powder 
coating.  Should make it nearly impenetrable.

Just give the PC a light sanding and a solvent wipe to prep it for 
painting.

David Brandt


--- On Sat, 7/25/09, Christopher Zach <cz alembic crystel com> wrote:

> From: Christopher Zach <cz alembic crystel com>
> Subject: (ET) Rust on an E20, repair time...
> To: "Elec-trak" <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 11:24 AM
> Well, this morning I had some free
> time so I pulled the front two
> batteries on my E20. These are dead T105's kept in there as
> ballast
> since I run pretty much exclusively on the BB600's in the
> back.
> 
> It's rusted, no surprise. However one of the side panels is
> completely
> rusted on the bottom and I think I should just swap both of
> them out.
> The question is does anyone have any of the new ones? How
> do they look
> and fit? Is removal simply a case of taking out the
> transformer, pulling
> the old sides by drilling the rivets and putting in the new
> ones?
> 
> And what are people using to paint their tractors these
> days? The latex
> I used about 6 years ago tends to peel. I'm thinking a base
> of POR15 on
> the bottom frame, followed by whatever people use on top.
> 
> Thanks!
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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