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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bearscratch" data-source="post: 68675" data-attributes="member: 9704"><p>Sorry for the delay in a follow up here, but here it is anyway. I took lots of pictures, but haven't got on a computer to deal with them at all yet. I had about 6 hours into getting the old motor out and a couple into cleaning everything up so far. Biggest hassle was getting to the bolts holding the hydraulic pump to the engine. Had to take out the steering controls and a couple hoses to get at them. My biggest problem there was that I got a bit rammy and had hands full of grease and bypassed taking any pictures of how it looked before I tore it apart. Hope I can figure out how to get it back together easily. The machine looked really ratty from age and use so since I had it part way stripped down, I decided it was time to throw a coat of paint on her. I didn't do a total restore style job. I simply took out the disc sander and knocked down all the big rust bubbles and hit it with some cat yellow paint. It looks ok from about 10 feet and does look much better than it did when I started. After I got all that done I went ahead and stripped the alternator, fan, manifolds, flywheel, bell housing, dipstick, and oil pan off my engine and cleaned them up a bit. I'm now patiently waiting for the new engine to be delivered which is supposed to be tomorrow. I'll update more when the project gets further underway.</p></blockquote><p></p>