1943 Dodge WC51 Rebuilding Brake Wheel Cylinders

The ending photo in the Master Cylinder Repair blog kinda hinted that diving into brake wheel cylinder repair was a chore that needed to jump to the top of the Dodge's to-do list. Here's the photo again:

John Deere Clamshell Headlight AA3075R Refurbish

I was at a tractor show and swap meet yesterday and happened upon a vintage John Deere headlight mounted to a support. It looks like what is on my BN but the headlight assembly will also work on my JD LA, which is missing one headlight. I asked the vendor what he wanted for it and he said, "How about five bucks?" Um, yeah, I'll take that off your hands for $5. People on eBay are asking $30 for rusted out hulks of these things with missing parts, and $50 or more for one in this shape. Someone else is asking $150 for two of these headlamps and supports on eBay.

Dump Trailer Winch Mount Fabrication

For several years now I've been using a Come-Along to drag old relics of tractors into my dump trailer. It gets old real fast, so I decided a couple of months ago that I need a winch. The one big downside of buying a winch is the task of fabricating a mounting location on the trailer for the winch. My first attempt was less than stellar. I thought I could weld a 1/4" steel plate to the top rail and bolt the winch to the plate. Sounds easy enough, so that's what I did.