Archive through December 13, 2011

[jcabral]

Some of the starter generators I use have a smaller pully and I am having a hard time finding a belt to fit. I would change the pully but they also fit differant. What is up with this?

 

[thenrie]

YES! Tightened the governor arm on the cross pin and the governor works exactly as advertised! I can now push to full throttle on my 682 and it goes to 3600 RPM and stays steady. When I engage the PTO the RPM drops a hair for just a second and recovers. Not only that, but when I started checking to see why the headlights didn't work, I found a blown 10A fuse. Well, I just happened to have one on hand. Replaced the blown fuse and I have headlights! I'm becoming more and more pleased with my 682 purchase. Had my doubts there to begin with. With the Carlysle ags and the 44C deck in good shape, I think I did alright for $500. As you can see, I still need to install the stock muffler. Already bought one off ebay that turned out to be in much better shape than it appeared on the pictures.

 

[jchamberlin]

Tony -No doubt about it, you got a good deal!

 

[sbranson]

Thanks for all the comments. The steering wheel was in primer when that pic was taken, and the car in the background is a 69 camaro ss. I restore car cars for a living, and now I think I may be addicted to cubs. The plow is a case plow that I sprayed with Raptor bed liner. I have more pics in the restoration section.

 

[jbaker]

Sean, I am really interested on how the bedliner in the blade works with snow?

very interesting idea

 

[jcabral]

I figured out the belt thing.

 

[digger]

John C.
How about sharing what you found out?
It might help someone else later on.

 

[aschumacher]

Gee wiz Mr. Proctor...you hit the master

button this morning by accident? Ya nailed the Sandbox too!

 

[jcabral]

It looks to me that the earlier cubs used a different pulley than the later ones. There are two size belts on the parts page.

 

[dross]

I thought the larger pulleys were for the smaller 7 hp the smaller pulleys were for the larger engines. That comes from seconds of shallow thought but worth every penny you spent on it.

 

[jharvey]

John
I've been told that the early Kohlers without compression relief had S/G's with smaller pulleys to help with cranking. Engines with CR had the larger pulley for more cranking speed.
Seems logical.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Dave, good thing that didn't cost us anything, the Original, the 70 and 100 all used the same pulley.

The later Cub Cadets, 7hp and larger used a different pulley. I believe it's what Jerry wrote, those with ACR use a different pulley than those without ACR, I've heard this before as well.

 

[kmcconaughey]

The ACR equipped Kohlers showed up around the time of the 71, 102, 122 and 123. Here's an excerpt from the 71,1x2/3 Brochure, note the "NEW!" in the text under the illustration:

 

[ajohnston]

Nice 682 Tony! You really got to love the red ones.

 

[thoffman]

Sean "B",
Here's what I did on my 120to keep the hood/grill from get all beat up.

 

[thoffman]

and on the rear of the hood where it rubs the "roller" keepers and flange.

 

[sbranson]

Jeff

I have only used the plow once so far and it worked well. The snow didn't stick at all. I used a catalyzed bed liner that gets very hard and sprayed it at about 70 PSI for smaller texture.

Tom

Thanks for the suggestion on the hood edge. It looks good I plan to do the same thing.

 

[fcurrier]

I'll never fail to be impressed with Kraig!

Tom: Great idea, and looks good, too. Split rubber hose? I'm leaning toward the (indestructable) stuff that holds the seat to the seat pan. ?

 

[jchamberlin]

Tom Hoffman - Thanks for sharing photos of your creation, I don't believe I've ever seen it before. I like the color scheme.

 

[lpalma]

Tom H
Nice looking cub...
I have used the same stuff on my 107.