I got a great (my opinion) deal on a 1973 580B. It has a decent cab and does have the Extendahoe (removed for transportation and not in pics). Paid $1000 and it comes with 4 backhoe buckets of various sizes. It has been sitting at a nearby dairy farm parked for about 8 years. Seems there was a slight engine problem. They pulled the pan before they parked it and from what they can tell underneath they thought it was a loose/broken wrist pin. There's other issues - cracked exhaust manifold (already ordered a new one on ebay for $152), several bad hoses, front bucket is completely rusted out, cracked glass, and several more … and more we'll find. I'm retired and enjoy a good project (and also run a small construction/home repair business) and (better yet) my son is a machinist and great mechanic. In addition, next door to my son (where the 580B is stored) is a guy who has a full diesel truck repair shop. Read: I've got some good resources to lean on for this project. I'm planning a pretty full restoration - but not going for complete original. I just want it completely, fully functional and clean. We're stripping it down to it's bones and fixing everything as it goes back together. I'll probably do seals on all the hydraulic cylinders, we'll tear down the engine and rebuild whatever it needs, fully check drivetrain and seals, repaint everything, the works. As you can see in the pics, she's pretty rough. There's three pics of it after arrival and a two pics after today's work of stripping her down. We pulled all the panels off the ROPS since to do a good paint job we'll need to paint under the panels. The ROPS itself was just going to be in the way as we tear into the guts and it's nice to have it separated to, again, do a thorough paint job. As for paint I'm doing power yellow on everything except the cab which I'll do in black. I know its not the original paint scheme but I really like that look. I've already poured over countless posts in this forum (a FANTASTIC resource!) and will likely bug you guys relentlessly as I proceed through this rebuild. This should be a fun, frustrating, knuckle busting ride!!
Greg's 580B Project
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