hey quick tip. when you don't have a tap, you can cut a slot in a bolt so that the dirt and grime has somewhere to go, and you kind of get a "cutting" edge. like a tap. the more the merrier

to be fair it spent 10 years as lawn art so the fact it makes noise and even moves is a win, I think that's amazing

Mustie1. “You came back to life” Glad your feeling better!

Mustie, I know from all the well wishes you have received, you may have an idea of how much we appreciate and love your work, and the sharing of your knowledge and personality. Thank you! What a treat it is when I open you tube and see a new adventure of Mustie 1 and the wrenches. We all love your efforts. Each episode is like sharing time with an old friend. Keep up the good work.

Your voice is sounding much better! Glad to hear you're healing.

That Sunday couple weeks ago without Mustie's video was just not feeling right. I am so happy you are feeling better and sounding better too!

I saw the new video so I started it. When Mustie started talking about a list, I knew it was going to be one of "those" videos. I stopped it, got a drink, and dug it. I was ready for a good video.

Yay, sundays are complete once again. Welcome back Mustie1 hope you’re feeling better!

Mustie made his reputation on multi part projects. I've enjoyed seeing the Kubota come back to life. Let's see it finished with a final video.

Need two cups of coffee for this one..... hope you and the misses are feeling much better ... big hugs.

I really liked the transmission fork linkage part, always wondered what was happening in there. The three point piston seal blow by is definitely something I’d tune into seeing tackled.

I hope Mustie is doing better. He sounded not so good in his COVID video. Stay strong brother and recover. We will be here.

I've had my Snap-On test light for 47 years. My most used tool when doing electrical on cars, trucks, tractors. I "loaned" it to a neighbor unknowingly once when helping him solve a problem. I searched my cars and truck for 10 years with disappointment. When they sold and moved 10 years later they had a garage sale. In the bottom of a junk little toolbox, there was my Test Light. I purchased my own tool back for $1.00. Mine looks just like yours with the handle dull and smoothed from my hands. Great to see yours. I love old familiar tools!

Might want to take your cutoff wheel and run a groove or two or three across the threads on the sacrificial bolt. Kind of like making your own tap. Seems to work much better for me when I'm trying to clean up threads. Glad to see you back and I hope you're not having any lingering effects from Covid.

There is something quite pleasing about watching a silver long haired madman on a out of control kubota👍🇬🇧

"Sharpen it up more so it sticks in my finger better" haha crack me up Mustie

The river is flowing at a good rate! This tractor needed a lot of love-it’s no wonder the owner parked it. You’ve done a bang up job reviving it and I certain someone will like to take it off your hands and put to work. 👏🏻🔧❤️

There’s such a deep sense of satisfaction reviving machinery! Thanks Mustie!

Hey bud, glad you're sounding better. A trick my dad taught me when I was a kid was if you need to chase threads and don't have a tap. You take a spare bolt and make a cut the long way about 1/2" down the threads. This does 2 things. It allows the bolt to compress a bit when going in tight threads and the slot gives a place for the rust and garbage in the hole to migrate to

At 50:50, “You see one?” I have one of those buckets too. Made me smile. I’m not the only one.

rust on those shifter rods/springs/detents is often caused by failing shifter boots letting rain water into the transmission. Those rubber boots are probably UV cracked and only a $3 to repair so order a new set. The extra shifter rod balls are inter-locks so you can't shift two gears at once.

Old mechanics trick. Take a dremel cut off wheel and cut a groove deeper than the threads lengthways along the bolt. The groove does'nt have to be too long . Maybe and inch. Do it to two sides opposite each other. Make sure it's a grade 8 bolt.

Great episode Darren. Glad to have you back again. 🇺🇸🤝🇮🇪

Great save & an awesome series 👍

Thank you for showing the whole transmission part after the shake-down test. There was a lot of good content there. Glad you're feeling better now too.

I am glad you gave us all a look into the transmission shifting issues. I’ve never torn into one and found it very interesting. Welcome back. You sound good and energetic as ever. Us old guys need you and your old junk, it is what we associate with…no drama, no violence, no foul language and nothing illegal or requiring 1st amendment auditors showing up at your door…. Just good problem solving turning trash into treasure. Thanks a hundred times over….

So very glad you are feeling stronger and again giving me an education on repairing nearly anything.

Great to have you back and sounding so much better Mustie1 😊

When you're doing the center gears--- Just make sure you let go of the shifter and allow it to self center, then you'll be much less likely to wrestle it into a bind... again, allow it to self center before shifting those two center gears.

Glad to see you back, yeah the Rona is tough the wife and I both went through it back in August. And we were vaccinated so it was nor as bad as it could have been. Looking forward to future videos.

We are blessed to have a Kubota of about the same timeframe. It's a damn fine piece of machinery. That little motor is a bulldog. Small, but tough.

Cover that seat with a trash bag. Put a rock on it to keep it from blowing off. We do that on all our tractors. Seats look like new. On these old trucks and tractors, we build up the shift forks with brass and file them down to fit. The brass really works smooth.

Great content as always. The shifter repair would be good as a stand alone video so people with this issue can learn about fixing it.

So glad you got your engine firing on all four again sounds like you’re about 99%-100% fixed. Be great to get back to mint content 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

A lot of work that old Kubota needed, great video mustie1. 👍👍👍👍👍

My Sunday morning treat! Thanks for sharing! Glad you’re feeling better.

Well done Mustie. Some advise. Please only start the tiller while it’s in the air. Also always use some kind of counter weight when the loader is in use. Otherwise you risk snapping the front axle from to much weight from the bucket and what it’s carrying. Also, please, more videos on the fixes for this tractor. Lets fix that 3pt hitch leak down issue.

Yesss its Sunday such a great way to start the week! Coffee and a new Mustie video! So glad your doing better Mustie! Payers be with you and yours! good Morning/Evening to one and All!

I enjoy watching you work on your mechanical finds and bringing them back to life.

We mostly enjoyed hearing your voice sound 98% back to normal. The video was icing on the cake! Thanks for sharing Mustie1 and please take care!

Thing to do is to braze that hub, doesn't crack like weld, good preheat and slow cool will make a huge difference no mater what process you use. as for cleaning out the threads, cut a length wise slot on your sacrificial bolt to make a rudimentary tap

Hi Mustie. I'm glad you're feeling better. Thank You, for filming what you do.

Long ago I found your videos , and still watch closely to all your moves in ALL. Enjoying every one.

50:49 You see one?? 🤣🤣🤣 Loved the tour today through Mustie1's stashes. Great variation of work and lecture. Always nice to have some electrics education. Great to see you back in a healthy way👍👍

Watching you piece together the intake kind of reminded me of the Apollo 13 issue of putting together the scrubber problem they had, all you need is some duct tape and your good to go😜

I could watch your videos all day. Love your patience in teaching while you fix it.

He's back!! Glad to see you feeling much better! Thank-you mustie1! God bless!

The river flows strong & The Kubota lives again!

Best part of Sunday morning

Glad you are back and sounds like back to your old self from the sound of your voice - great video - you do have the magic!!!!!!

Epic goodness with spanners. Thank you Mustie1. You are a tonic for me and many others.

Good to have you back ;-)

You need to get a set of Knipex Cobra XS to replace the small channel locks you were using on the headlight switch. Mine are in my pocket 99% of the time and they're handier than the little 5" channel locks as they open to over an inch. Cheers Darren! Zip~

Mustie I'm so happy for you and off course happy for us the subscribers because we have Mustie for long time, God bless you and your family.

It amazes me that there are still people who are willing to repair things and not just throw them away when they break. Good on ya Mustie

Brakes.... who needs brakes.

I put a GARBAGE BAG with tape, or bungee wrap. ON MY UPRight seat for winter storage.

Thanks Mustie. Another great Sunday morning to learn.

awesome as usual, thanks for spending time with us "figgerin" and wrenchin " and fabricobblin. You are certainly a genius at it.

Nearly an hour and a half! We're being spoiled today!

Woohoo, over 80 minutes of Mustie once again!

Great Mustie, all working now an example of working through problems getting them fix, good learning keep 🔧 🇬🇧

It's so great to see you up and chipper and sounding good and moving with lots of energy. All the best from Canada

Morning all!

Bolts are for people who can't weld

A bit of the ol' mustie1 loving, and it all comes back to life! Thank you for another enjoyable video, glad to see that you're doing better.

Glad you’re feeling better!!! Keep up the fantastic videos !!! Nature scenes at the end are always welcome!!!

You are an inspiration sir! Make me want to tackle projects that were always to intimidating. Glad you're feeling better!

I really love your vintage automotive bulb collection that you have!! Especially the packaging it is so beautiful☺️

Hay Mustie1, it's great to hear your voice has returned to it's natural sweet tones.🥴😁

Love to see the lift repair work. Great repair work getting it functional. You sound alot better. Thanks for the look.

Its great to see and hear you back in form. Hope the Misses is better also. Thanks for all you do for us.

you wired the headlights like my Christmas lights.

All is right with the world. Sunday morning and Mustie on the TV. I laughed when you tried the tiller. Looks like what I called a garden in Connecticut! Growing veggies in rock.

So glad you're feeling better and putting up your normal Sunday morning videos. Nice to see the Miller in action too!

I just wanted you to know I have learned so much watching your videos that when ever someone has an issue with a small engine I tell them to start watching your videos. I do help them, but I make them stay and get involved. I also if you had a video that covers the issue we have to deal with, will call it up on my phone and they watch it with me. I hope this gets you more subscribers, but most importantly that they acquire and retain knowledge of how to understand and repair their own machines. Thanks for all your videos.

Just what I needed, for my Sunday morning! Glad you're doing better too!

Mustie...looking and sounding much better! So glad to see that.

Glad you're feeling better Mustie. Your voice sounds much better. Thanks for the video.

Good to see you wrenching and guiding us through the rust to mechanical health!

Love it! Hey I've been meaning to thank you for a while now Mustie. Earlier this year I started my own channel. You were my main inspiration 🙂 Thanks so much for showing me the way. I Love your style buddy 👍😎

Had that Kubota for years. Never noticed the split brake pedal. Glad you are well.

whoopee glad to hear your voice with that mad scientist laugh when it starts. now we can get back to our routine . Sunday morning coffee with Mustie 1 on the big screen . God bless be safe and continue to heal .

Awesome job Mustie, so cool to rebuild a tractor. Keep it up, thanks for all the after footage, really nice sir.

I have one of these similar older Kubota tractors and they're great tractors even if you just do minimum maintenance on it. It rarely gives me any issues. I bought mine used 20 years ago and it just fires up every time when I need to use it. Thanks for sharing your videos and some of these repair tips.

SUNDAY'S ARE NOW COMPLETE ONCE AGAIN!!! Hope your feeling better. Thanks for all your hard work in providing us such quality content.

sunday, and 1 hour 26 minute video! Nice! i just wanna let you know how glad i am you are back.

Great to see some awesome videos again. Thanks so much for sharing your time.

PLEASE let us have another video part about this great little tractor. It's really fun to watch and there is still definitely enough work to do to fill another good video. Thanks in advance.

Got my L285 with loader working 2 wks ago. Now starting the repainting in Kubota orange. Nice to have it working again pulling out the multitude of small trees that over took the property during 7 yrs of neglect and using the box blade to relevel the land. And like you my left brake is stuck. Waiting for your next video on the brakes.

Thanks Mustie1, Always good to get out into the shop, gets my mind back on mechanicals Central California Watching

I love your stuff Mustie. I used to drive JCB’s years ago, they had those slewing brakes, I don’t know if they still fit them as I am a Tanker driver now. I love the education I get from you. It’s never too late to learn. Especially when you’re interested is a particular subject liked Wrenching. 👍

glad you are feeling better and back to work as I really enjoy your videos

So glad you are feeling better! Missed your channel!!

Glad you're feeling better👍

Another great video Mustie, many thanks.

you should be able to swap the hoses around on the loader control body to make it the same as your other one, great vid mate.

Loved the video. It could have been another hour and I would still love it!!! Great having you back wrenching 🔧🔧

Without further ado, and it's gonna be another awesome facinating Herr Doktor Professor Mustie going in restoring to working order can't stop watching video. Time to pour a cup of coffee and pay attention.

I always enjoy your videos it helps keep things off my mind like the loss of my mother and father and my little dog