Hey all,
As I promised a few weeks ago, here's the first bit of what I've been meaning to
share with the group - taking my E20 from "as found" in rough,
nonfunctional shape to a good working machine, with some healthy modifications on
the way. I'll write about the loader build and drum brake conversion in later
emails. Photos of all this are below, and some explanation below. Note the loader
build starts with the photos of cutting a chunk of metal out of the large blue box;
anything after that I really haven't talked about below except for the lights.
Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WEffiGGADUV77G9L8
When I got the tractor, it had been sitting for approximately 25-30 years
and so the batteries were long since dead and gone. I scrounged up three
marginal automotive starter batteries and used those for testing of the
tractor. Testing didn't take very long because nothing at all worked
except the lights - no drive power at all. I pretty quickly decided to go
with a motor controller rather than have the ancient wiring potentially
cause trouble time and again - assuming I could even fix it initially!