I have painted (restored) a few tractors now and can give you a little advice. First, disassemble as much as you can to clean, repair and test things before you paint. Finding out you have a bunch of oil or antifreeze leaking on your new paint job is no fun.
I have found that removing the lights, the gas tank and any other easily removed items really helps with getting the paint into the proper places. Painting around a gas tank is tough and you waste a lot of paint trying to spray under it. Paint them separately and they turn out much better.
If possible, remove your tires and paint the rims.
Prep is the key...wire wheel or sand blast or bead blast separate pieces and then reassemble them for painting...you will be amazed at all the gunk hiding in places you never thought possible. I found snail shells in the front bolster of my Grandpa's H from when he used to scour the plow in the lake! When you shoot the paint is not the time you want to find junk like that flying around!
I prefer to use an Epoxy type of primer and a good enamel with hardener. I bought one of those $85 10x20 shelters from Northern Tool (like a white car port roof) and set that up to keep the direct sunlight off of my painting. It is the best advice I can give you!
Sand the sheet metal smooth and degrease it well. One tip I use for all the parts is to rinse them with brake cleaner from a spray can...it cleans off things and doesn't leave a residue. For a final cleaning, wax and grease remover is a great thing! There will always be bugs unless you paint in a booth...don't try to remove them until things dry! Been there and done that wrong!
If you want to see the overall process of what I did for my Farmall A, follow the link to my photobucket site and check it out. The only thing I would change from that job was to have had the engine finished and bolted together before painting the other things, but time and money didn't match up that time, so I painted everything I could last summer and finished it this spring.
Good luck, you can't go wrong too badly, just take your time and it will go well!
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