BobRip
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Kent and Kris, get pictures and opinions please. We need to help sell this machine.
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KentT
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- 1993 Power Trac 1430 w/Kubota diesel engine
Bob,
Too late -- I just got back about a half hour ago, and I didn't take my camera. It was very cold and windy, and we didn't spend much time chatting or talking tractors -- two feet of snow and a chill factor in single-digits, most likely...
Steve (scarg) is a nice guy, with a nice place out in the country, and he has a nice PT and nice, clean attachments. I'm quite pleased with what I purchased (new model stump grinder with replaceable teeth, very lightly used, and a set of the handy-dandy forks).
His PT-429 is complete and appears to be in very good condition, overall, other than the engine coupling problem that he described. His wife "dead-headed" the hydraulic PTO on accident, when dismounting the tractor, breaking the coupling -- and illustrating that the PT-422, at least, does NOT have any time of bypass on the PTO hydraulic circuit.
His engine installation looks quite "clean and professional." It's a 29HP liquiid-cooled Kawasaki. To make it work, he added a sheet-metal box to the top of the hood, where the fan normally sits, that houses the new, larger cooling fan, radiator and oil cooler. He has only mounted a temporary gas tank -- you can't use the orginal tank or location due to the proximity of the muffler on the new Kawasaki engine. So, you'd need to add a permanent gas tank somewhere and paint the new, added sheetmetal. All the new brackets and sheetmetal for the mod was CAD-designed, as I understand it, and professionally fabricated. It certainly looks the part. Overall, it appears to be a very clean, professional mod, that just needs a gas tank and paint (in addition to repairing the coupler) to be completed.
Maybe Kris was thinking ahead better than I -- I got a late start because I had to drop my son off at work, and was scurrying around before I got on the road. It was a 175 mile (one-way, 350 total) trip, but worth it, to me to obtain the implements, in good condition, at the price he was asking.
BobRip
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Kent, thanks anyway. Good comments even without the pictures. I read his post of course and was very impressed with his work, and disappointed when he abandoned it. A broken coupling would be easy to fix and it's good that it fails during a blocked hydraulic situation. This would be a long trip for me. I will see how this goes. If I wait long enough he will sell it.