As you all may remember I got this cat 15 off ebay about 2 years ago. Man what a project. The engine was locked up tight. Missing alot of everything. Someone put a mig shift gastank on it cropped the fenders cut the dash the radiator was gone. Then the fun had started. We pulled the engine apart and found a lot of rust. So we bored and sleeved the engine back to standerd bore recut the piston ring grooves for wider rings made new piston pins, piston pin bearings, found john deere intake and exaust valves that had a 7/16 stem diamiter and made them into the valves we needed for the engine. So the engine is pertty much new. The sheet metal......I got most of the stuff i needed form George Rankin. But the fenders I did my self. Drilled out all the old revits straightened all the angle iron and started over. Had some sheet metal rolled for the tops and I cut the inside fenders out with a jig saw. Drilled and bolted everthing together and tryed fenders on the cat before I revited them all together. What a long process. The rest of the things I was missing I just stoll from another parts machine. Every nut and bolt was sandblasted and painted befor being reinstalled. So 2 years latter here is my brother and I's Cat 15 tailseat. Finely Finished. Thanks for all the help Cat collectors. Mike and Matt

Damn nice job there Mike and Matt. Looks great. I hope to do that some day with a CAT Thirty when I get one. Along with my 67 Chevy Pickup. John

Matt and Mike:

You guys should be proud of the job you did on the 15. Another one saved from the scrap guy, lives to see another life.

Matt & Mike, Job you did looks dam nice! You gents appear to have gone through all the right (but slow and painfull) steps to make that tractor a keeper. Congradulations. Greg

Fine Looking Big 15 restoration, Job well done

Looks awesome!!!

What a beautiful job you guys did. I hope someday my 22 and 2-Tons look that great.

Very nice!!
What's the next project? or have you guys had enough??
About how many hrs do you suppose you have in the project?

Hi Matt and Mike, you boys have done a absolutely beautiful job on that 15. You mentioned you were coming to Ca. stop by when you guys are out this way.. The annual get together/ Track kick'n will be sometime around early November if that fits your travel plans. Don

Matt & Mike, Thats I fine Job, and a credit to you, from the other side of the pond