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I think it was a CT177 I hired to fetch my tractor … good trailer .. but I wouldn’t want a shipping container on it 🤣

I had started to look at those and was initially leaning that way .. Cost wise though - a new control box plus a dynamo rebuild is still a lot less money than the Tudor alternator…. Where I’d then also be wanting to change from an ammeter. Plus then there is the originality bit … I am going to be trying a different starter motor… but it would be good to limit what I change where I can. Original is nice if it works ….and that dynamo has worked for it (to some degree) since 1958.

I’ve been thinking about this - standard delivery wouldn’t work for me I want it in a field. A bale trailer and a telehandler are the obvious choice if I can coordinate arranging it all ..

I missed this - great news that your 110 will live again 😊

On to the next thing …. I have noticed is that there is something no right with the charging circuit. If you watch a multimeter across the battery it reads just the battery voltage .. which does creep up a tenth of a volt at a time. Im no expert on dynamos, but I think it should have more than that coming out the regulator / control box. I popped the wires off the dynamo and checked the power terminal, against earth, for its voltage. It should be 2-4v. I got -1.2 hmm. Made me thing it wasn’t polarised - so I kept it disconnected and put a jump cable onto the battery positive (it’s -be earth) and brushed it against the dynamo’s field terminal .. got a little spark .. and that got rid of the minus sign. Even building the revs really high only got it to about 1.7v. Then I ran out of time .. though I did clean up the terminals a bit when I wired it back up. If I can connect those two terminals together .. and measure voltage from there to Earth I should get up to its full voltage A up to 20v (as it’s no regulated)… so I think that’s the next test. Somethings not right from what I’ve already got though. It’s about £80 to get the dynamo rebuilt and about £25 for a control box. Still nothing from dvla unfortunately.

With that done .. I could sort the air cleaner. I reckon there was more money’s worth of tape on the inlet rubber than the new rubber cost … The inlet rubber goes into the back of the dash .. I guess that is deemed the least likely spot to get harvest dust in it? The removable mesh filter from the bottom was replaced - I guess this is the primary filter - the mesh in the top half is fixed. I put SAE30 in here - can’t imagine multigrade will get up to temperature.. All done. Starting really well now. Fuel ✅ Air ✅ Starter wiring ✅ Heater plug ✅

Before I went to re-fit the filter I wanted to re-route the battery cable .. In doing that I noticed that it was sparking around the terminal…. Not ideal. So I brought forward my plan to make up a new cable. i was going to use a new battery terminal - but then I thought I should really clean up the original: A before and after. It’s Vaseline on the Earth. Having new flexible 35mm² next to the old original cable was a stark contrast. So much easier to work with. That little pot that’s plumbed into the fuel tank is called ‘the auxiliary tank’ it’s fed from the top of the fuel filter and feed the heater plug. Whilst I was on this side I cleaned and tidied up the wires and started terminals. I may end up replacing this .. but it’s not wasted effort.

I bought a tin of the right paint for the grey .. flint grey. Lovely colour - though not, as it transpires, the one the previous owner used. So I took the air cleaner off and got some pain mixed up to match it. (Flint grey won’t go to waste - I can use it on the trailer when I get into that.) Before and After : Colour match was brilliant … though it seems he used another shade again for the wheels. 🤷 The plan here was that, having sorted the fuelling out with new filters, I’d turn my attention to the air.

I quite like the idea of the Shielder single skin ones…….

Not to mention all the port holes

Yes …. Those dumb irons tell a story.

@Stellaghost I did a screen grab of it for you ….

Not sure it fits in the ‘I want it’ category.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/135001317300?

I find it interesting how the rev counter is run from the drive on the injection pump.

I un-seized the rev counter tonight and fitted a new drive cable. Pattern parts again though - the square end of the cable was too big, so I had to carefully hold the flat sides against a grindstone to take them down a bit and fit. Worked though. All you V8 lovers .. I cant see how you don’t love a diesel at idle….