HOMEMADE TRACTOR START

[joes_427_vette]

Crank;
Your doing an excellent job. Love the tig welding. Bet it takes practice. You have to leave room for the tall gearing for burn outs and high speed touring ( ha ha ) . The only thing missing is four whel drive. I bought two new tractors and wouldn't be without it.
Your shop is way too clean and the open spaces...... how do you manage? I have a 40x72 two story building with too many tractors, cars and trucks. I have a car stacking unit for four almost ready to assemble which should leave me a little more wandering room. I like my lincoln digital MIG. I see alot of TIGs for sale lately. I guess many wanted to be an offshoot of Orange County Choppers.
I'm waiting for the sheet metal design. I'm counting on you to make it cool. Great pictures and post many more! jr

 

[David Devuono]

two things, great project and I would keep the auto tranny because the torque convertor gives you slip so you can move very slowly just off idle but will use your brakes alot to control speed on hills and such. Second thing is, when you plan to work your tractor and want to keep a certain speed, it will bog under load unless you have a method of adding more fuel. You will get tired of using the gas pedal. I had a gas Unimog and it had a hand trottle but no Governor and if you hit the clutch the engine would overrev. I received a neat homemade tractor. It has a very small 4Cyl, 4spd, gear reduction box with the output driving a chain to a ford 9" diff faciing backwards. It has a governor so I set the RPM and it stays there whether I step on the clutch or go up a hill. Can't find too many pictures as I robbed the Alternator for my MF135 a couple years ago. I added fenders, a hood and bumper, grill guard and a go-cart style disc brake on the Diff.

 

[cranker]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I have been busy with some other things so i have not had a lot of time to fiddle with the tractor. I should be working on it more this weekend so i should have some more pics.

Thanks Crank

 

[cranker]

Well i had a little time to work on the tractor. Didn't get as much done as i wanted but still made some progress. I got the frame lengthened about 11" to make room for the tcase. Got the drive shaft made and assembled. You can also see the tank mount but i am not sure if i will leave it there.

Here is one of the tcase mounts. I think between the two of them it sould be plenty strong.

Also got the time to hook up some ignition wiring and actually got it fired up. It sounds pretty good. not as loud as i thought it would be coming straight out of the header. Dont worry this is just temp wiring so i could figure out everything i need to have hooked up so it will run. It will all be redone once i figure out where i will mount the ignition module,coil and starter snd.

Here is a close up of the patch i put over the but joint.

And the last pic of the whole tractor.

Thanks Crank

 

[carpenter383]

Keep up the good work, can't wait to see the finished product!

 

[DRL]

I love it!!
One question, unless I am not seeing right, you have rubber engine mounts and solid trans' mount at the tail. also solid mount for transfer case with no U joint. Seems like a lot of stress on the trans tailshaft and TC input shaft.
Keep up the good work.

 

[cranker]

Thanks carpenter.

Thanks DRL. Yeah you are correct. I am to alittle worried but i am going to go with it and see what happends.Plus the motor mounts are basicaly solid rubber disc so there shouldn't be much movement.

Thanks Crank

 

[CavinMan]

Is this creation eventually going to be sporting a ROPS ?

 

[mjncad]

I just stumbled across this cool project and I'm looking forward to seeing it through completion.

Out of curiosity, could you have done some sort of flange to flange direct connection between the transfer case and rear axle to keep the chassis length down?

Are my eyes playing tricks on me; but are the u-joints between the transfer case and rear axle 90-degrees out of phase? It shouldn't matter in this case since there is no rear axle suspension.

 

[cranker]

Cavinman, Yes i will make some type of rops for it.

mj, they are out of phase i believe, i just quickly put it together to make sure it fit. this is all just a dry run while building. i will tear it all apart and paint and then final assemble and take care of little details like that.