Archive through January 16, 2005

[wcompton]

Tom, Ken-
Anything you want me to keep my ears open on, I know quite a few people "in the know" in Dyersville.

 

[dplogman]

HOLY #@%*!! OK, OK! I'll go ahead and do it right for Heaven's sake. You guys are so helpful and enthusiastic. I was about ready to run over to HD and plunk down a bunch of green on a snowblower... I'll start dismantling tonight after work, after dinner, after both toddlers are in bed, after hooking up the new bathroom sinks... Luckily I have a heated shop at work complete with 10x10' paint booth. Got to move the MG out of the "service bay". Dave

 

[bmcmeen]

I've been everywhere, man...

IN, OH, PA, WV, VA, NC, SC, GA, TN, KY...

Time for some actual REST!

 

[digger]

Yea but did ya bring back and peanuts or beer?

 

[jlang]

Digger, I thi9nk I may have a calling card for the guy with the articulated 4x4. I'll try to check tomorrow if I remember till then!.

 

[digger]

Wild Man John L.
That's OK chief, it's been posted on here several times, thanks though.

 

[jbliler]

On the 149 front latch for the blade, Does anyone else have trouble with the round pins jumping out of the holder with the blade at full angle? Am catching cracks in sidewalk and it lets the oppisite side pin jump out and fall.
Have now just replaced the pins with a full length rod, Does nice job of keeping the ears apart properly.

 

[dfrisk]

Charlie, KRAIG - You forgot to mention that to properly distribute the snow from a blower You have to run the tractor WFO..... and keep the blower full. I hadn't even mounted My QA-36 for 6-7 years until 10 days ago. All the accumulated dirt, dust & rust inside the housings I started into the snow on the first pass at less that wide open and made it maybe 6 inches before the discharge chute plugged. I think that was about the second time in the 20+ years I've had the blower that it's plugged like that. After a few minutes of use I could throw snow 15-20 feet depending on conditions. I'm not like Art..... I don't want to throw snow OVER My two-story house into the back yard....

 

[kupdike]

Denny....there is nothing wrong with throwing snow over the house. Any properly "adjusted" blower will do this.

For those who machines will not do this, you need to get some "viagra" or "cialis" (aka slip plate and smaller drive pulley) for your machine to help get it up and out....

 

[rleo]

Kraig:
Was watching the movies of you that Charlie posted. What brand "Mars" light are you using?

 

[ppimentel]

Clutch functioning correctly? The clutch on my 100 is grabbing real close to the top of the travel of the peddle. Is this correct or is there an adjustment somewhere. The only adjustment I see is for the slop on the peddle, it doesn't seem to improve the amount of travel.

I'm I missing something?

 

[dfrisk]

PAUL P. - Your "TEASER SPRING" between the throw-out bearing and clutch driven disc is broken. Part is about a buck, but the engine has to be slid forward to install, takes a couple hours if You work slow like Me. Cub Cadet's can be a pain to drive when that spring breaks.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Ray, if by "Mars" light you mean the amber strobe light, I have no idea, it was on it when I bought it. I can have a look and see if there is a label on it.

 

[scollins]

Electric PTO Clutch Questions:
1) Is there a "newer design" PTO clutch for a CC1450? Or is it only the original PTO clutch design that is to be used.
2) What is the shaft size of the motor crankshaft that the PTO clutch attaches to?

3) Is there a there an "after market" type PTO clutch that works just as well?

This may not be the place to ask these questions. If not, that is fine.
Thanks

 

[jsimpson]

Jerry, my deck on my 149 was doing that right before it gave up the ghost and fell apart from rust. New deck solves the problem.

 

[digger]

Seth C.
1. Yes, but for $239.99, it's best to find a good used one or re-build yours.
2. 1"
3. Same as Number 1

(Message edited by cproctor on January 18, 2005)

 

[zfriedman]

When I first hauled my cub out of a friends garage, I had two goals:

A. Make money.
B. Fix it up as a beginers mechanic project. Hopefully learn something in the process.

Today I learned the joys of aluminum and steel, specifically, the joys of stripping the spark plug threads on the cylinder head down to nothing. Woo-hoo, fun. Embarassing? Most definetly. I'm not especially sad/angry/bleeding from a gash on my forehead from banging my head on the wall of my garage though, I was going to replace the head, complete with cracked fins, eventually (meaning when something overheated and blew up in my face)...I guess I gotta do it now. At least this isn't my future POS car...now I know.

So now I got two choices:

A. Buy a helicoil kit for 28 bucks. Have forever for whatever else I happen to set my grubby hands upon and destroy.
B. Buy a used cylinder head and (new) gasket for 30 something. This time realize its aluminum, use proper procedure. The head is off a K301 and I got a K241...suposedly the same. (Wouldn't that be nice to think so.)

The archives dealt with Dave Kamp a while back asking about a K241 head to a K301, not the other way around. I read it a coulple times, blinked, and read it again. I think I'm fried from exams, it just seems like a big jumble of words and it isn't multiple choice. A 12 to 10 swap results in higher pressure making it harder to start....so a 10 to 12 swap makes it easier to start...but performance goes down...right?

http://members.aol.com/pullingtractor/cylhead.htm

I got the first kind of head (pretty sure.)

I'm looking into buying the third kind of head.

Clarify? Please?

Thanks in advance,

Zack

 

[cbaird]

As a new member let me first say, Hello in Cub Cadet Land. I want to build up a Cub. It's all brand new to me. I'm not interested in restoring to original. I want to build a small, farm uable, tractor for mowing (up to 50 inch mower), and light pulling. Looking at Cub information I see wide frame, narrow frame, solid mounted engine, P.T.O., many, many models, etc. Well, I need help in selecting the right frame as a beginning.

 

[digger]

Zach,
"but performance goes down...right? " Bull Hockey!!

Put that K241 head on there and go for it. 10's and 12's are the same.

 

[jamante]

Hi folks, I'm new and soon to be an owner of a 129. Can't wait to see it in a couple weeks. Quick question: I have a Cub lawn sweeper #1, one that doesn't say International but actually says Cub Cadet. Does anyone have any info on it

? (It's cleaner now than it looks in the pics.) I've been doing web searching off and on for about a month now and haven't seen a single sweeper in the 1970s style that says Cub Cadet.

. Thanks, -Joseph in Rhode Island

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