50b one of my other toys

[vkberlina]

Heres my latest Toy approx 1980 model Massey Ferguson 50b Backhoe complete with a 4 cyl 70hp Perkins deisel.
Plan to do it up and use it up the farm

[sweefu]

Ah i love it, make it your daily.

[Trayner]

[grovers_vn]

mad ride lower it on ultras

[vn_v6]

It screams rb30tt

[Zeussy]

lol Trayner, "pimp my backhoe"

Looks nice, love the 'rustic' look the aged paint gives off, just screaming for a long, hard days work pushing/moving dirt to make some dirt jumps for the weekend rides
Does it run alright? Any hyd. leaks? etc...
How much did you pay for it, if you don't mind me askin

[vkberlina]

I just looked didnt know anyone looked at it

Love the rims tyres are expensive enough let alone low profiles

Ok it needed a bit of work
Replaced 15 hydrolic hoses, none were leaking just old and potentially ready to leak.
One Ram was bent and a new one in the process of being built
one of the locking rams on the side shift needs seals
front axel bush needed replacing
a few electrical gremlins
reconnect and make a new hand throttle
weld up some rust holes & cracks
rebush and pin the hoe attachment
new air cleaner precleaner
new windscreen
o ring on the fuel bowl
finally a little body work straightening and give it a new coat of yellow
Its needed heaps of little jobs doing to it which are all taking heaps of time.

All in all its a good machine for its age and could have nearly been put to work as I bought it but im going right over it. The perkins deisel has been rebuilt and runs great, main pump was dont a few years ago, RB conversion no way gotta be a V8 , actually it would be tempting to turbo it but its got enough grunt for whats needed.
When im finished it will effectivly have had a rebuild over the last 5 years basically with me finishing it off, engine, gearbox and diff & wet brakes were all dont prior to be getting it

cheers
Scott

[vkberlina]

After Trayners pohotochop im getting ideas :P
Pimped Tractor - Worth1000 Contests

[vkberlina]

Been busy on the backhoe lately nearly finished my work on the hoe, painted the hoe, painted the cabin roof about to paint the mudguards and the rest of the hoe then going to paint the front end
All the rams have nearly been rebuilt

scott

[Zeussy]

Haha, farrk the hoe and roof came up mint as! Gotta be happy with that!

Although once its all done, it'd be harder to get it all dirty again... Have to clean all around the pins just before you grease it up each time,

Hows all the bushes and pins in the bucket, and hoe assembly?

What will you be using the beast for once she's all done?

[vkberlina]

Haha, farrk the hoe and roof came up mint as! Gotta be happy with that!

Although once its all done, it'd be harder to get it all dirty again... Have to clean all around the pins just before you grease it up each time,

Hows all the bushes and pins in the bucket, and hoe assembly?

What will you be using the beast for once she's all done?

Yeah im very happy with the paint the new lead free yellow paint doesnt cover as well as the old paint does, takes 6 coats to cover!!!! using a product called rocket in the enamel when painting its touch dry in 15min flat, I have less crap in my paint painting in the open air car port than what a local panel shop got in a tiny panel in my work ute. The top of the roof came up flawless not a single spec of crap in the paint.

As for the hoe bushes they are brand new pins & bushes I have just rebushed & pinned it all in induction hardened 4140.

I plan on builting a house at out farm so I bought the backhoe to build a 400m road, clear boundry lines for fencing, dig footings for the house & shed and anything else I can find to do with it.

I plan on getting it dirty, it will get scratched but I had to fix cracks in the body, & rust before it got too bad, I am doing the machine up to a standard that I wont need to do much to it for a very long time.

after the cabin gets painted hopefully this weekend or monday I have to get the sideshift working and rebuild 2 side shift locking rams then its onto doing the front axel bush & steering.

scott

[GlenM]

I was expecting to see a 5 litre rotary with that thread title!

[vkberlina]

well its still a beast although a 5L rotor owuld be impressive
3.5L 4cyl deisel
15.5:1 compression
10.86:1 diff ratio
In 6th gear it does a mind blowing 24.4km/hr @2000rpm
can lift 2120kg with the front bucket

More pics coming soon

scott

[Jonno]

Beast!!!!!

[vkberlina]

Had a massive extra long weekend on "The Beast" Painted the body & the rest of the cabin, started putting it back together & working on a bit of wiring for a few extras

Started wiring in a isolator switch for the battery
worked out a cabin light
installed a 12v lighter socket
started the wiring for a flashing beakon
repaired more cracked body panels

I ran out of hardener & low on color so I couldnt do any more painting.

scott

[vkberlina]

Been busy on the backhoe again Im motivated by my next car project awaiting me in the shed

Wired up Front & Rear work lights
Had an old CD play around to in it went
started fixing the lighting and other wiring problems
Front guard lights wired up fitted off and working
Cabin light in and working + roof mount cigarette lighter socket for the flashing light
Had to convert the indicators to flashing units & installed a flasher buzzer
Have the rear lights nearly ready to go till i realised i bought the wrong brake light unit so they will get ordered this week
Painted floor panels, fitted up new rubber covers for the clutch and brake pedals
Wired in a battery isolator switch
wiring looks a little messy as it isnt clipped off yet & test leads going every which way trying to bypass sections and find wiring faults

I bought myself a pair of new devilbliss sprayguns standard topfeed & a HVLP so I gave them a test out painting backhoe parts what a waste, sure beats stuffing up on a car though

[ozdash]

MMMmmmm Dig Dig.....

[Drawnnite]

looks good.

also 10.86:1 diff... put that in one of your many cars =P

[machone]

i take it....it transforms into a commodore lol

[vkberlina]

i take it....it transforms into a commodore lol

Yeah bumblebee eat your heart out lol

Yeah diff would be interesting so would fitting it, the drums are about 16"

[Drawnnite]

Yeah diff would be interesting so would fitting it, the drums are about 16"

anythings possible =P

but yeah when i first saw the title as said above i thought it had a rotary in it.
50b rotary tractor... get those paddocks planted in no time