Agricultural tractors: restoration and service & repair manuals

How to Restore Your Farm Tractor

This book provides a clear and practical guide to restoring classic farm tractors. It includes hundreds of full-color photographs, proven techniques, and advice from experienced restorers. Tharran Gaines explains each step of the restoration process for many well-known makes, helping readers avoid common mistakes and reduce costs.

The book covers how to choose a suitable tractor, prepare a workshop, and handle major mechanical tasks. These include engine disassembly and rebuilding, working on clutches and transmissions, and servicing final drives and brakes.
Detailed instructions are also provided for steering systems, as well as hydraulic, electrical, and fuel systems. Guidance on tires, wheels, bodywork, painting, and applying decals is included to help achieve a clean and accurate finish.

Additional sections present information on antique tractor shows, demonstrations, and an updated list of parts suppliers. The guidance applies to popular and collectible models from John Deere, Ford, Farmall, Allis-Chalmers, Minneapolis-Moline, and others. With this book, readers gain the knowledge needed to turn an old tractor into a dependable and well-restored classic.

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Vintage and Classic Tractor Restoration

A complete guide to the subject, looking at how to initially purchase a tractor, through private means or at auction, and then how to restore it back to its former glory, as it would have looked when it left the factory.
It is even possible to preserve a classic tractor in its working condition, which has a unique appeal to some tractor collectors and in some ways is harder than a full restoration to undertake.

Practical techniques have been amply illustrated throughout the book, ranging from the simple use of a lathe or milling machine to the making from scratch of various tools useful in restoration work.
Rather than just replacing items such as carburettor, starter motor or dynamo, practical advice is given on how to test and rebuild these compondents back to full operation. Fifty-two practical picture spreads show techniques suitable for restorers of all levels of skill.

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Tracteurs agricoles: Historique, restauration, tours de main et caractéristiques techniques

Collectors and enthusiasts will finally be able to find technical data to prepare, adjust or repair the main components of more than 70 models of agricultural tractors manufactured between 1945 and 1960.
In addition, repair and operating instructions are presented, an original, abundantly illustrated history and also "tricks of the trade" collected from seasoned mechanics.

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Das ultimative Traktor-Schrauberbuch - Reparatur, Restaurierung, Werkzeug

Marcel Schoch is an absolute expert on everything to do with tractors: he can explain the repair and restoration of vintage and classic cars in a way that is easy to understand for any "tractor operator".
Many step-by-step photos and instructions, tips and tricks are his strengths and make the book equally attractive for beginners and advanced users. The necessary tools and how to use them, as well as important buying tips, are also presented in this competent guide.

• The perfect repair book for tractor lovers
• Significantly expanded new edition of the tractor classic
• With many step-by-step photos and instructions for beginners and advanced users

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