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TEENAGER'S FIRST TRACTOR RESTORATIONBy Dan "Head" PetermanR.R. #2 Webster City, Iowa 50595 "I'm fifteen years old and I have recently restored a 1949 VAC Case which was my first restoration project. It was purchased two years ago from a junk man for $25.00. I restored the tractor from the ground up. The engine was stuck, but once we got it home and off the trailer we did some mechanical work to the distributor cap, pull started it and it started right up! The mechanical work was fairly simple. New valves were put in. The seized-up transmission was taken apart, cleaned, and put back together. 1949 VAC Case All the rust-pitted and grease-infested sheet metal was taken off, cleaned, primered, wet-sanded and painted a nice shiny coat of Flambeau Red. The whole restoration took me 260½ hours and one year's worth of time. ...800 of 894 characters shown.
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