7275 Stiffener Kit has Arrived
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This is a major update on this Cub Cadet/Woods stiffener kit for the 7275. If you have a Woods mid mount mower on your machine where the front mower brackets mount over the loader brackets good luck. This kit will not work with that mower setup without major modifications to the new brackets. First of all they are not made to work with a mid mount mower as it claims in the package. Why? Because the frame mounts for the front mower lifting arms are in the way. Also the mower up position lock lever stop on the left side that holds the mower up when traveling is in the way. It would have to be cut off. The new brackets are not offset enough to fit over these mower brackets and reach the block even if you cut off the bracket that locks the mower in a raised position. The brackets are short by 3/8 of an inch. The right side of the tractor poses and even greater problem as the hydraulic valve for the loader is in the way. There are also two rigid pipes on there that would probably need to be modified. The only solution I see is to cut these new brackets so that they can be welded onto the front edge of the mid mower brackets. To do this on the machine you will have to cut the brackets long and just keep grinding until you get the length just right to match up with the mower brackets. Grind down a 45 degree angle on both the mid mower bracket on the front edge and the new cut off stiffener bracket piece. Position the new pieces in place and bolt them on to the motor. Weld them up and be a happy camper. Cub Tech1, you should pass this information along to someone in your organization. I'm tired of dealing with people who know nothing and could care less about your used tractor. On another note. I noticed that the bolts that presently hold my rear loader brackets and the front mid mower mounts on are too short. I was able to install 10mm longer bolts in these holes. What someone did when they put this together was to use the long bolts for the loader and not add on for the extra 3/8" thick front mower mount brackets. I'd check your bolt lengths if you own one of these machines with a loader and mid mouint mower or even just a loader to make sure that the proper length bolts were used. That extra 10mm gave me another 25% holding power on the bolt. Don't forget that the hole is not threaded right to the bottom. Maybe the easiest way to figure out the thread depth would be to actually screw a longer bolt in until it bootoms out and count the number of turns to remove it. Then measure the turns to decide which length bolt to use. All I know is that I'm not too happy with modify my brackets to fix a major screwup that should have been fixed years ago by a previous owner or Mitsubishi for not supplying the proper kits to repair their tractors all well knowing that there was a problem with them in that area. This kit I just got was dated 1995. I just hope all this information will help someone else out there from having problems in the future. I will post the pictures of the modified brackets sometime in the future. Right now I have other more important projects to take care of.
ducati996
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Dosent sound like the right kit for your machine....way too much work along with too much hacking....can you double or trible check that it is correct? obvious question I know, but you never know...
Ducati
Ducati
I have already done the double checking. They make one kit that is supposed to fit with and without a mid mower deck. I thought of moving the brackets outward from the mid mower deck also. But the 1" bar that runs through the plates is too short to allow a 3/4" spreading of the plates. Plus I would need to shim out the rear part of the bracket as it would not be against the loader frame. I'm in a no win situation with this kit fitting right. I will get it in one way or another. I may even pull the mower mount plates off and weld it right to the loader frame. This is the way the modified frame is made.