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Thinking more about this one, I would fill the trans with N-Terpinal to get rid of the rust. Unless there's severe pitting, and you plan on putting 50,000 miles on it, I'm guessing it'd work well enough.

It's on the right side of the frame, by the wheel, as I recall. Migginsbros beat me to it.

Thanks, Duecerider. No, the quick tach setup was bought from palletforks.com, then just modified a bit to fit the loader. It was primarily installed to be able to run the snow blower, but is obviously useful for all kinds of attachments.

It looks like they got done with the rehab, but never got to the paint part. Which is fine with me. It came with a surface rusted hood (no paint whatsoever) but I saved that one for an HMMH. The 'glass hood is plenty good for this FLU, and I must've had more green than tan when painting it...

Today I fired up the former Summer SEE, now the main one, to install tire chains while it's still nice out. It just made me very happy to hear it purr. Three of the four cylinders on the backhoe were replaced when I got it, and almost all the hoses. Actually, almost everything on it was it...

Nice! Is that the clean one that sold recently on auction?

For now you could just interrupt the air supply to the axle. I've thought of doing it to both axles anyway, because if I find myself in water that deep I have other problems going on.

I'm very happy with my 39.5x16.50 PitBulls. Better flotation, especially on 2-inch widened rims.

What's the "boom cylinder" on the loader? I'm lost here.

They're (old) standard European fuses, which you can get on eBay, Amazon, etc.

I personally don't care about them being color matched. If I were, I'd buy a can of spray paint and make them match. After all, that's basically what Freightliner did.

That's a basic GM copy, which you can probably get at most any auto parts store.

Once you have the trench at least started, you shouldn't have to counter with the swing cylinders. I "dig to the side" quite frequently when it's not convenient to straddle a ditch. Also do it when digging horse graves, as it allows me to put the dirt pile away from the center of the hole...

Yep, you do what you gotta do, and it wasn't like you had to put any weight on the outrigger anyway.

If you make a mount for a parasol and put bias ply tires on it, you'll likely do just fine. Starting with a good one, of course, and Sgt Jiggins' seems to have one.

It's nice to see that all your work on the FLU is paying off. And that you enjoy running the machine. They really are fun, I think.

And here's a pic of the tunnel washer.

Hey, it's a mere 2,500 ft.lbs. What could possibly go wrong? Either the fastener comes loose, it breaks, or you go for a spin. So far they've come loose. The bolts for the loader, for example, was more than the 3/4-incher wanted to deal with, but the 1" worked fine.

You should try the 1-inch version. It makes the 3/4 seem tame (and very light) in comparison. I'll dig up a photo of the tunnel washer later.

I had already taken the tunnel washer apart before realizing that I could have replaced the car wash style broom with the chainsaw. It would've been pretty neat to be able to cut stuff way up and off to the sides.