Beginnings -- The stud seminar --Exit studs, enter hubris -- Oil pan blues -- The wall of despair -- Pounding pistons -- Bondo beats the piston -- Reaming a ridge -- Bolt breaker, first-class -- Little victories -- Differential strokes -- Crank problems -- Goo removal -- The mystery of needle bearings -- Busted knuckles -- Welding 101 -- The joy of recycling -- Welding 102 -- The joy of grease -- Bad parts -- The ez-out myth -- Good intentions -- The golden moment of turn-around -- The systematic approach to tractor restoration -- Unfinished business -- Welding, PTOs, and rock 'n roll -- My idea of fun -- Rocker hygiene -- Broken differential mounting : bolt 1, rog 0 -- The fickle gods of tractor restoration -- Studs 0, rog 2 -- Head surgery -- The joy of tinkering -- The sock-dryer syndrome -- Mr. Clean -- Transmission blues -- Welding the block! -- Shifter surgery -- Block repair, part II -- When an engine looks like an engine again -- The secret to oil pan installation -- Cheap therapy -- Restorer accounting -- Manifold disasters -- Radiator surgery -- Transmission transfusion -- Burnt flesh and bolting back wheels -- Front end transplant -- Sex and sledge mauls -- Shot tires and the world's cleanest parts tractor -- Houston, we have ignition (sort of ...) -- Dan and bondo's tractor-starting machine -- An unexpected treasure -- Wheel therapy -- Left wheel, no problems -- The wheel deal -- On the road again -- It's my party -- A new addition to the shop -- Calling the pan back -- Smashing tunes -- Wrestling fenders -- Dressed and ready to go -- Epilogue.
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