Just acquired this R2. Turns over easily, actually too easily so I am going to soak the cylinders hoping that it's nothing more than stuck rings.Guessing that it hasn't run for at least 12 years when the owner passed away. I haven't figured out why the pads are so pitted on the ground contact side only and equally all around the tracks. Very little rust on the tractor.
Pete 

sn: 6J1024. Thanks for the comments. I hope that the inside is in as good shape as the outside appears. I just discovered that the seat box is really rusted through in places. It has been sitting outside for decades with the original seat back and bottom just containing moisture, I guess. It'll take me a while before I attempt to start it. I need to insure there is no water in the fluids and the top end is lubricated before I attempt to crank it any more.

Thanks for the very short lesson in soil chemistry, Ray54. I was baffled by the corrosion on just the pads.Thank goodness, just the pads. I checked the part number of the R2 fuel cap and it is the same as a D2. I was told that the R2 is basically a gasoline powered D2 J series.

I just wanted to say that I don't feel like I was saving one from scrap here unlike Mike Meyer who "saved a Diesel 40 from going to China". I definitely don't have the mettle to tackle a project like that.

Pete