Jay4200
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- Joined
- Nov 23, 2005
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- Location
- Hudson/Weare, NH
- Tractor
- L4200GST w/ LA680 & BX2200D w/ LA211
I just finished putting a canopy and lights onto my L4200.
It all started with a friend giving me an old canopy and bracket (from a Massey SCUT, I think), which was cracked due to a tree falling on it or some such disaster. I had the thing kicking around for a couple of years, then finally got to putting it together. I had to do a little cutting/grinding to re-set the support bar to be at the right angle for my tractor, then welded it in position and bolted the assy. onto my ROPS. I fixed the cracks in the canopy with zip-tie stitching and epoxy, then spray painted the canopy orange on top, black on the bottom. Total cost for canopy: $10 (spray paint)
On to the lights. I bought 2 sets of 55W 4x6 white halogen fog lights at Autozone for $25 a pair. I put a pair of lights facing forward and a pair facing backwards. I mounted the lights to the top of the canopy, using the canopy mounting bolts. That way, if I want to take the canopy off, or it breaks again, I can leave the metal structure to use as a light bar, and nothing will change with the lighting setup. The lights came with switches and a rudimentary wiring harness. I used the switches, but tapped into my tractors main fuse block and did all of the wiring using 12ga outdoor lighting wire, which is perfect for this application for obvious reasons. I had the wire left over from when I built a home-theater room - it makes outstanding speaker wire. I pulled the included switches out of their mounting plates, then inset them directly into my dash for a factory look. Front and back pairs are switched separately, and all 4 lights are run on a common 30A fused circuit, fused at the main block.
These are the switches - two rocker switches to the lower left of the steering wheel on the vertical section of the dash. The big black button on the right side (next to the key) is my glow-plug bypass button, which I also installed while doing this project. My glow plug controller died, so now I just push the big black button when the key is on to engage the glow plugs - indicator light turns on while button is depressed too.
These show the lights and canopy. Not bad for $60, if I do say so myself.
JayC
It all started with a friend giving me an old canopy and bracket (from a Massey SCUT, I think), which was cracked due to a tree falling on it or some such disaster. I had the thing kicking around for a couple of years, then finally got to putting it together. I had to do a little cutting/grinding to re-set the support bar to be at the right angle for my tractor, then welded it in position and bolted the assy. onto my ROPS. I fixed the cracks in the canopy with zip-tie stitching and epoxy, then spray painted the canopy orange on top, black on the bottom. Total cost for canopy: $10 (spray paint)
On to the lights. I bought 2 sets of 55W 4x6 white halogen fog lights at Autozone for $25 a pair. I put a pair of lights facing forward and a pair facing backwards. I mounted the lights to the top of the canopy, using the canopy mounting bolts. That way, if I want to take the canopy off, or it breaks again, I can leave the metal structure to use as a light bar, and nothing will change with the lighting setup. The lights came with switches and a rudimentary wiring harness. I used the switches, but tapped into my tractors main fuse block and did all of the wiring using 12ga outdoor lighting wire, which is perfect for this application for obvious reasons. I had the wire left over from when I built a home-theater room - it makes outstanding speaker wire. I pulled the included switches out of their mounting plates, then inset them directly into my dash for a factory look. Front and back pairs are switched separately, and all 4 lights are run on a common 30A fused circuit, fused at the main block.
These are the switches - two rocker switches to the lower left of the steering wheel on the vertical section of the dash. The big black button on the right side (next to the key) is my glow-plug bypass button, which I also installed while doing this project. My glow plug controller died, so now I just push the big black button when the key is on to engage the glow plugs - indicator light turns on while button is depressed too.
These show the lights and canopy. Not bad for $60, if I do say so myself.
JayC
