Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

I have mentioned Simplicity / AC was my first love (wife), Case would be the well used mistress

Ready for snow. Cabs rear mount is the seat pan hinge point. Cab open. Need to make sure the suicide door is latched first :o

Seat pan up for easy access to belts and rear axle. Cheers,
Gordy

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Dual 15# Gravley weights. 4 - 23.5# Simplicity weights and 9 gallons of -20 washer fluid. New switch and fuse panel, need to get more wire loom to clean that up. Cheers,
Gordy

Joystick mounted to lift lever. You can see where the stainless stack connects to the exhaust coming out of the frame. After the first run I knew it was mandatory. Also the round 4 prong trailer connector for the wiring for the chute rotater and the still in the works deflector. Cheers,
Gordy

The 4 pin trailer connection in the frame and the fused switches Make a lot of sense. I picked picked up some harness connectors at an electronics store but have doubts about how much current they will carry, plus they need to be tie strapped to something. In frame or bracket mount is perfect.

Spike

I've got no cabs on anything, so nothing to compare, but that just looks handy as hell for service.

Getting a cab on one of the machines is on my list... It's a really long list, but it's on there somewhere... Which brand gets it, is likely going to be a matter of what I find at some point...

That looks like a strong tractor, especially with thise bad a** weights! :O I sometimes get the itch to get some other type of garden tractor I see on the marketplace, but what I like about having all Case is the ability to have just one set of attachments.

@Spike a good source of high quality wire and connectors are old stoves. Whenever I see one on thrown out at the side of the road, if I have the time, I pull out the wires. I have a good crimper and crimping connectors for when I have to cut the wire and attach it elsewhere.

Cabs are awesome when blowing snow, but they look so silly on small garden tractors. I know, I'm so vain!

I have 2 more 7119's, they run strong but cost as much in oil as gas to run This is the second winter with this one. Paid $1,000 for tractor, snowblower, cab, mower deck and tiller with new bearings and seal for the tiller and a full set of manuals 8-) PO said 175 to 200 hours on the rebuilt KT-19, gets about 12 hours before the oil gets low

In the picture with the switch panel, the black thing above it is a LED license plate light aimed at the panel and also lights up the dash. One switch is for the fan (high-off-low), one for forward LED cab lights, One for the rear LED lights, the other is unused as yet.

By the rust in the top of the cab, It looks like it was stored outside and upside down. Also the wiper motor armature was rusted to the magnets, but I cleaned it up and working now. I had to search online for Vintage Anco wiper arm (small mount) and blades, Now need to look into real glass for the windshield as the plexy is scratching. And need to fab some proper supports for the front of the cab.

Cheers,
Gordy

The PO told me one of the rear tires was loaded, the other was a new tire and he did not bother loading it. Well the other day I found the loaded tire was half flat :o I did not see any wet areas, but noticed the valve stem was at 12 o'clock position. I found the valve core was rotted almost gone, just the threaded end left. I cleaned that up and put a new core in and aired it up, But it turned out the base of the valve stem had some dry rot, that was letting air out but holding in the calcium chloride.The inside of the rim was dry :P So new tube and 9 gallons of -20 washer fluid fixed that, and the other (new) tire had a tube in it, so filled it being the pump and gear was out and set up. Then looked down the inside of one of the front tires had the tube starting to come out of a split in the sidewall :o So that got a new tire. All that meant it was a perfect time to do the stud upgrade


Cheers,
Gordy