wh22366
Bronze Member
I picked up a Curtis cab (right) that supposedly came from a MF1440 (might have been an earlier 1200 series) and am planning to modify it to fit my MF1540. It has a curved glass windshield, steel top, wiper, heater, soft doors, plastic rear window and is designed to sit in front of the ROPS. Anybody out there go this route?
The cab mounts to the floorboards and to the base of the ROPS mount. The 1540 platform and cowl is slightly wider but I plan to widen the bottom of the frame and make a new cab cowl panel. I might have to lose the small lower windows in the present panel. Will also have to reshape the cab frame where it follows the fender line so that the gaskets seal right.
I wrote Curtis to see if they had experimented with converting this cab to the present MF offering. They wrote back to tell me that the cab wouldn't fit so I guess the answer is no.
Why didn't I buy a cabbed version up front? Preferred to have the turbo over the A/C compressor. Besides, what would we do without projects?!
The cab mounts to the floorboards and to the base of the ROPS mount. The 1540 platform and cowl is slightly wider but I plan to widen the bottom of the frame and make a new cab cowl panel. I might have to lose the small lower windows in the present panel. Will also have to reshape the cab frame where it follows the fender line so that the gaskets seal right.
I wrote Curtis to see if they had experimented with converting this cab to the present MF offering. They wrote back to tell me that the cab wouldn't fit so I guess the answer is no.
Why didn't I buy a cabbed version up front? Preferred to have the turbo over the A/C compressor. Besides, what would we do without projects?!