Versatile 145 painted

[Joshbraman]

I wanted to share the pic of my 145 painted up. Its not show room quality but it sure looks better than it did!

 

[Joshbraman]

 

[flying belgian]

If it runs as nice as it looks, you got a good tractor there.

 

[super99]

Looks good to me!!! I paint mine with a rattle can so they look better when someone is driving by at 50 mph. I like to use mine, if I had several thousand in a paint job, I'd be afraid to drive it!!

 

[dcarp]

Looks good to me. Ill bet you could move a lot of snow with that tractor.

 

[Wheat47]

Looks good!!!
I changed many clutches in those,
most of them in the middle of the field!!!

 

[rustred]

they were kind of an interesting simple tractor, made here in manitoba canada. the nieghbor had one in the 1970's , no cab dual stacks. you have the v8 cummins? that was one down fall.

 

[Joshbraman]

This one is has been repowered with a 466 from a Ih bus

 

[rustred]

well you should have a good unit then if the rest holds out. they had some tranny problems too. but its just what i have seen.

 

[Moline_guy]

Looks good from here, that one has the big planataries, simple rugged tractors.

 

[GreenEnvy]

Nice. I have a 1970 145 with a transplanted 504 cummins.

 

[fastfarmall]

Cool Josh,what was the biggest obstacle ?e in the repower ?

 

[SVcummins]

Thats a nice tractor. Thats a lot of work to paint something like that

 

[4520BW]

I had one of those purchased but before i got it out of the guys barn some meth heads smashed it up to get the radiator out and took the wiring, It ended up in the scrap yard. The owner and his brother caught the thief's as they came back again.( they were in no shape to steal anything for a long time after)

 

[Joshbraman]

It took almost 2 gallons of red paint and 1 gallon of yellow. FYI. Hard to find good yellow paint. I didnt do the repowering. I bought it that way from a guy who built it just to plow his driveway. He did a awesome job on it. It actually has a clutch out of a white and the brake is out of a 1960s truck. I actually traded even up my Ih 706 diesel that I did a complete rebuilt the motor on and and had a turbo kit on. I needed a 4 wheel drive. I am not regretting my trade!

 

[Joshbraman]

It runs awesome starts easy too. I really like how simple of a machine it is. Next project is to reduce pins and bushings theres a lot of slop in them.

 

[Joshbraman]

It runs awesome starts easy too. I really like how simple of a machine it is. Next project is to reduce pins and bushings theres a lot of slop in them.