Some work has been going on over these last few months on the tractor, I got the old brass plates and gave them a clean up fixing them on with the correct hammer in rivets that they were fitted with originally, I think it finishes it of quite nicely,
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I am most disappointed I have set the plate for the loader somewhere safe and now cant find it, I have turned the shed upside down to find it with no luck,
I have replaced the rear reflectors that were fitted with led lights, this took some head scratching as the dip and main beams are in separate circuits, a couple of relays under the dash, some more wires run in taking the earth wires back to a main earth rather than the body earths used commonly,
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When I had the dash out I thought I might as well get the indicators working, then there was also the broken parking switch which could be put to good use,
Starting with the indicators, the old switch came separate to allow the connections to be cleaned up, the flasher unit was defective, the first replacement one I bought did not work, after many hours of trying to work out why, it was because the bulbs were not drawing enough watts for it to heat the bi-metal strip up to allow it to make and break giving the flash, opted for a relay type and it works a treat,
I thought it might be handy to have some rear work lights, some pondering over where to mount these best, opted for making some high mounts tying in with the indicator brackets, replacing the old broken parking switch with a new one for these lamps,
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I was lucky enough to get a 9" bucket from a friend which was from a JCB mini digger, needed to change the brackets making up new ones, this was a size of bucket which I was looking out for as it is such a good size,
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Chris