I lean towards original, but I favor function, so this is going to be a working tractor that's hopefully in the spirit of an older generation that made due with what they had....
Now back to the original post...
So I have a lowboy loader on a standard. That puts the back lower which makes the towers lower which makes the brace over the tank not fit...
So... I made a new one with a bend...
I also cleaned up the valve area. There's a mystery plate that was bolted to the valve on one side and threw the valve and valve bracket, so it moved around. Originally it had the separate valves with a gusset between them. Some box tube fixed that mess.
I also flipped the valve handles to point back vs up. No pictures yet...
I also picked up some new (lightly used) tires...
