Thanks for everyone's help when I started this paint project over thanksgiving I thought that finding the color would be only a few clicks away on the internet.
Looks like there is a lot of ambiguity about the color in the hobby and I hope I don't piss anyone off. It's not going to be a show piece I just want to be somewhat close.
I have enclosed another picture of the gear shift selector and the paint is more of a green. The top color is 34087 "olive drab", the center is 34077 and the lower color is 34052 "green".
I went to
http://www.fed-std-595.com/FS-595-Paint-Spec.html copied the RGB Hex Code for each color and went into Photoshop and painted a swatch next to the green for a comparison. But then again this is a digital photograph not an actual paint chip comparison.
33070 and 319 were not in the listing for its code so no comparison. 34087 is more of a brown then the color that I have uncovered.
34077 or 24052 are the closest match and 34083, 34092, 24158 all seem to be in the ball park on the proper color.
I also found this web site for color matching
http://scalemodeldb.com/paint
Once again going off of a picture on a computer, but either using a picture or copying the RGB hex code from Photoshop it will show you possible matches
I am starting to wonder if this is some type of Marine or Navy color. Being on the west Coast I would assume most of the equipment out here would have gone to Alaska and the Pacific theater.
No need to worry about me blasting away history. Slowly I have sanded through the fuel tank and rear portion of the seat trying to find any stenciling.
I have found across the back of the seat is =D4= and Caterpillar Peoria Ill but there is still yellow under that the front of the diesel tank had a 6x9" starting instructions sticker and the gas tank had a green safety cross decal. I have not moved onto the hood and other tin work yet.
I have found this new low voc paint stripper is good for removing one layer of paint at a time it seems to loosen the primer between the layers and the paint almost comes off as a sheet. Not something I would expect compared to the good strippers of that we used to be able to get but it works good for this application. Once I get the top two layers of yellow off I move to some sandpaper, a 3m "rust and paint stripper" disc or a wire cup wheel to work my way down. At this point once I find all the numbers on the Green paint buying a larger sandblaster or taking all the sheet metal to a professional blaster it looking like a better option.
The trunions were for a later added cultivator bar that was used on my cousins farm in the 1950s and 60s for making furrows or wide raised beds for irrigated vegetable type crops.
As far as I know there was never a bulldozer on this tractor. The bolt holes in the front of the engine that would normally support the front hardnose still had cork in them and the engine side panels still have the knockouts in place that would cover these holes. The side panels have the same green paint underneath that the rest of the tractor has so I would assume they are original.