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Restore Your Tractor? Sure You Can!Posted at 8:18 AM on Saturday, March 1, 2008
ITP's main focus is to help you maintain your imported Fiat or Long tractor. We have practically all service parts in stock.
Further to helping you on servicability of your tractor, we have restorative parts. This especially revolves around sheet metal parts such as grilles, hoods, and fenders as these get banged up and sometimes discarded over the years. However, restoration parts can also include such things as instrument panels or gauges, and switches and wiring harnesses, and fender lights to renew the electrical system of your tractor. It's important to protect a good paint job with gaskets to keep solvents such as engine oil, transmission fluid, and antifreeze from your cooling system where they belong. Likewise with replacing old radiators, radiator hoses, and fan belts, and leaky old fuel tanks. New air cleaner seals, plastic air precleaners and rubber air cleaner hoses, will not do much to protect a paint job, but they sure WILL protect a rebuilt engine, and look nice under the hood, also.
A good looking tractor isn't all that great if it is loose and sloppy in operation. Tightening up the front end with new tie rods and steering arms, and spindle bushings, and the steering gearbox with new bearings and bushings, and refreshing the brakes with new bands and adjusters, or discs and balls and springs, can make a tractor HANDLE like new, not just look like it. To make it FEEL like new, new control knobs for the gear shifter(s), throttle, and PTO will go a LONG way towards that end, along with new throttle linkages. Making your tractor SOUND like new usually only requires a new muffler, but sometimes a new exhaust manifold or elbow will be required. The cost for exhaust parts is small, but the immediate improvement is big.
Of course, tractors used in muddy conditions or in barnyards will usually have rusty rims or wheels, and replacing them, along with a snazzy new set of tires, will brighten up and set off a restoration like nothing else.
We don't sell paint, but it's easy to have mixed up at any auto parts store with the proper code. We do handle some decals, and maker's badges, and many other restoration parts.
Take a look at THIS and see if it doesn't make you wanna do the same:
This is from our friend, Stewart, in Scotland. It's a Fiat 450, or, for us North Americans, an Oliver or Cockshutt 1250-A or 1255. Is that gonna be a beaut or what? Wait til he gets the sheet metal back on!
We are here to make your restoration of your tractor an easy, one-stop shopping experience, and help you to improve your results dramatically with parts that just plain aren't available anywhere else. And, we love old tractors, too, or we wouldn't be doing this, so we want to SEE your results. We want to see your tractor in it's 'before', 'during', and 'after' stages! It gives us a feeling of satisfaction to see what we're helping you to accomplish. Your pride and satisfaction with your finished restoration is OUR pride and satisfaction, too!
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