Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 13th 2018, 8:30 pm
Looks great! It's a mud mower, it doesn't have to be a perfect paint job.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 15th 2018, 5:40 pm
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
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 15th 2018, 5:42 pm
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.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 15th 2018, 5:49 pm
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 16th 2018, 4:45 am
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.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 16th 2018, 4:50 am
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 17th 2018, 2:54 pm
the rain is makeing painting seem impossible. aslo how some the past 2 weeks it seems like this website went from poping to dead?
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 18th 2018, 1:21 pm
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.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 21st 2018, 12:45 am
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.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 21st 2018, 8:40 am
thanks, im quite proud of the final result, feel like im driving the FREEDOME mobile around town.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 21st 2018, 6:04 pm
Looking really good dude! I've been wanting to do something like that in the past.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 21st 2018, 6:22 pm
That looks really cool. Especially with mud on it!
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 22nd 2018, 5:08 am
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.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 22nd 2018, 8:57 am
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.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 22nd 2018, 7:25 pm
This tractor has come a long way from its humble beginning.
Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 24th 2018, 9:24 am
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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.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 25th 2018, 8:53 am
a sneek peak for a video to come.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 26th 2018, 10:36 pm
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.)
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 27th 2018, 1:08 pm
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.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 27th 2018, 2:23 pm
some day i will buy a cheep GPS and find out without a dout.
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Subject: Re: "Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650) August 27th 2018, 5:37 pm
Well, if you have a friend with a smartphone, you can just download one of many free speedometer apps and find out.