Alex's Clark restoration 2016

[Bill_Wolf]

Great Blog of your work! It has provided much reference information for my restore.

Great looking Dozer!

Bill

[welbike]

Thanks Bill! let me know if you need any specific details, now is the time, as I'm working on it every week.

Grtz,

Alex

[welbike]

Ok, some more pictures, got the decal in, some antique tractor places sell these, it's the wrong one, but the only one available right now, it should be more oval.


From manual.


Remains of Donaldson decal.


Repro decal.


And fitted, not very happy with it, but will have to do for now.

More stuff in a minute,

Alex

[welbike]

More stuff done in December 2017.


Got the hood a bit better in shape, something heavy must have fallen on the r/h front corner, as very dented, will not use bondo, as it's part of it's history!


Also reground welds on fuel tank, and rewelded it, finally not leaking anymore! cost me a lot of time and effort, also added dash, and NOS instruments, oil pressure guage needs a new line.


Hollowed out an old battery case, and bought an Optima 6Volt battery, engine turns over very good with it!


Fitted fuel petcock and filter, so far so good.

Alex

[welbike]

2018 now, and working on the lamps, had found a pair of K-D lamps, with the wrong bracket, so took those off.


Didn't make any before pictures! but the shells are the right ones.


Here the various parts, I had found on Ebay some bigger K-D lamps, with the right mounting brackets, so removed those, and welded the holes in the right shells, very thin material!


Brackets needed some reprofiling to fit the radius.


Made some new rivets on the lathe.




And re-rivetted the brackets, not as easy as it looks!


And the finished lamps, well pleased, as this seems to be the most difficult part to find!!


Another shot, the glasses are not the right ones, have them waiting in London right now, will get them here in April.

Alex

[welbike]

Then onto the steering handles, had several spare ones, and chose the best ones, and blasted and painted them, only to find out I forgot to straighten them! so did it afterwards, paint not damaged too much.



Also straightened the seat supports, they are a bit fragile....


More small stuff blasted.


Fitted the front lamp.




Then the ballast boxes, had them powder coated, about ten years ago, after some welding, but this was alread going rusty a bit, so some sandblasting, and sanding, and a special clear 2 pack primer was used to get good adhesion, and the next day a final coat of O.D. now only to make one more inspection cover!

Seems early models had 2 covers, and late 3 ?


Here the left one, still have to fit the covers.


Beginning to look like something now!


Fitted steering tillers, was some modifications done to them, but is all OK now, but cannot get them adjusted evenly, the left goes about 3/4" more forward then the right, we'll see if this is a problem later.

So this is where I stand today, will do more after the weekend hopefully.

Alex

[welbike]

Keep forgetting, but here's the drawing for the winch handle, it will not fit on one sheet of paper, so in two parts.







I measured the size, and wrote on the drawing, from corner handle, to centre pivot hole, strange it's not really on the drawings, but I added it when I laid the handle on the drawing. (I did not make the drawing/tracing, got it from an Englishman) and, so you can print it, and enlarge or reduce it, on a copier, tried to scan to PDF, put did not work that way.

Alex

[Gliderborne]

Hi,

Many thanks Alex for all of these pictures and detailed informations.
That will be help all of us for restoration of dozer

Mat

[welbike]

Ok, I'll make a little update, as I'm far behind here! this was April 2018.

Here's what was left of my battery box, checked it on the drawings, that I had scaled up:



And then had one made by a friend, came out very nice!!







And painted;







So for now a repro seat installed, original still needs more restoring and painting, and canvas upholstery to be fitted.

More in the next post.

Alex

[welbike]

So, also the hydraulic rams and supports were painted (they had been refurbished years ago by a friend of a friend) and the first test ride was succesfully done in May 2018, on one run we almost ended up in a watery ditch!! in fourth it really flies, so now we got a nickname for it! "Deathtrap"

Can't seem to post any video's here?? (so a picture will have to do!)



Then back with other stuff, a friend kindly refurbed the valve block, it had some play, and the bore was rusty, so it was honed out, the TM states never to do this!! haha, but today we have more modern methods, so the plunger was metal sprayed and turned down again for a perfect fit, the seal that was in there, was the old leather type, en completely shot, and difficult to find in that size, so the retainer was opened up a little, so a metric seal with double lips could be fitted, well actually two are fitted, glued in, so should be OK.







So that out of the way I concentrated on the rams and supports, this was all straightforward.





Then a little more welding on the blade, plus attaching the carrier for the dataplate, and all blasted again, and in primer and OD.







And fitted!!



More next, Alex