"Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650)

Looks great!  It's a mud mower, it doesn't have to be a perfect paint job.

since this hood as turned out so well i think when im doing my touch ups on it im also going to take my fenders off and give them a similar job, but less acruate, just stars and stripes that look like they wold meet in the space of the old shifter making a V on the fenders. i think it wold go with the hood really well.

not shure weather to keep the stars the same size, or use really big stars (more work) and have 3-5 per stripe

btw, that shop i was geting my starter rebuilt back, said it wold cost more to get a new housing than buy a new starter. so when i get my starter back im getting one of thoes close housings off ebay.

How much is a new starter?

About 90$ fake knock off starter is 60$
and a got a knock off by accident before, blew up on first start.
now i got pull start, if ebay shroud dose not work i will install damaged starter has is, and will use electric start as a luxury now that i got pull start.

the rain is makeing painting seem impossible. aslo how some the past 2 weeks it seems like this website went from poping to dead?

last weeks pait desaster, got that as fixed up as its going to be without a strip down to the metal and repaint. and yes, thats rain on drying paint, weather and bugs have caused 90% of all my problems


this weeks painting disaster, and the hood looking some what acceptable from 2+feet.


hopeuflly sunday morning i will be done and my stupid cannon camra will let me dump the videos off of it and i can put a real update in here.

Nice work on the fenders.

You've brought up the points as to why I hate painting.  Especially in the winter.  If I were you I'd invest in another pop up shelter or build a shed from pallets and tarps.

Turned out pretty cool looking. Nice work!

thanks, im quite proud of the final result, feel like im driving the FREEDOME mobile around town.

Looking really good dude!  I've been wanting to do something like that in the past.

That looks really cool. Especially with mud on it!

next goal is snorkle, i wold of done it already, but i need to get to a big hardware store, there are none in tractor distance.

this is a best of dinky video.
some one was talking trahs on yuotube called dinky my "pile of sh*t tractor" so i threw this together alittle early. i wanted to wait till a full year of me owning it, im a few months off.

This tractor has come a long way from its humble beginning.

Very nice, I agree with Carl.

i bought a tractor today and i might be buying one tomrrow.

RockeyDA wrote:

i bought a tractor today and i might be buying one tomrrow.

cool I had the same tractor not too long ago, it was a great mowing machine. The plastic hood was weak, but everything else was pretty nice.. People talk crap on the black deck version but I had no issues with it.

a sneek peak for a video to come.

this one is mostly for double cross ranch, i know it aint an accurate speed test. but in this video im still being what i call gentle on the motor and on the second pass i start moving faster than traffic.

some day i will buy a GPS so i can measure the speed for real, when that time comes i might even let my motor run over governor for 5-10 seconds witch i dont think i have done yet on this motor.(i was alot harder on my 18hp oppy because it was the least impressive of my 3 oppys, i did more than floor it for a second or two.)

That is quite fast, but I can't believe that you are getting 40+ MPH on just above a 1-1 ratio.  CarsandCameras had to have a 1-3 ratio to get it to go that fast.

some day i will buy a cheep GPS and find out without a dout.

Well, if you have a friend with a smartphone, you can just download one of many free speedometer apps and find out.