Interesting Massey Repower with 13hp motor.

[conkli48]

I have found this little gem of a video, Here: 13 hp RePowered Massey Harris 33 - YouTube



( there are more videos on his youtube channel.)
A guy takes old rusted massey tractor and puts a small briggs/honda type motor on it to repower it for farm use. He has a whole mess of videos using it to rake hay, run a manure spreader, seed drill and more. I have not seen anything like this before. I would seriously consider this project as if you found an old junk tractor for cheap enough, you could get a harbor freight 13 hp motor for 350 and have a cheap usable machine. At least it saves them from the scrap pile.

It looks like it is done fairly straight forward, but would require a tractor where the motor is not a major part of the frame and instead is bolted to frame to be able to tie into the geared transmission. It may not be the most aesthetically pleasing tractor, but with a little work you could probably modify or throw on a few body panels to cover the motor, or maybe leave the original tank and be able to have a very large tank feed into the smaller motor mounted tank. This is just one example, in theory you should be able to get about any briggs or honda to work with it, including some 22 and up hp motors, so long as they are horizontal. I may have to keep my eye out for a barn find or a junk tractor that could do this to... Granted you always could rebuild the engine in some more common tractors, but these little motors are easy to swap out and cheap to replace. It would be as easy as a few bolts. From the video the tractor actually seems to handle load pretty good.



update:


looking through the comments, I have found he used this clutch with the motor, link wasnt working right, but part is,

Hilliard Extreme-Duty Centrifugal Clutch — 1in. Bore, 14 Tooth, 40 / 41 Chain Size

a quick google search will show part


He has said that it runs it pretty well, sometimes it will smoke if using tractor for a long time plowing or under more load, but clutch has held up for it.


Also he wrote that if he needs counter weights he just through bricks in the front to get more stability.

Thoughts?

 

[shadetree]

looking through the comments, I have found he used this clutch with the motor,
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200415726_200415726


Not sure what I did wrong but the link for the clutch didn't get me to a clutch --- couple of baseball caps and a bunch of other stuff

 

[conkli48]

not sure why link was send it to that site, but if you search for : Hilliard Extreme-Duty Centrifugal Clutch — 1in. Bore, 14 Tooth, 40 / 41 Chain Size, this is the part he used.

 

[texasranger556]

It's viglink intercepting the link you posted. They're integrated with the forum software and provide kickbacks to the forum owner if you buy something by clicking on their redirected link. Unfortunately I don't know if you can bypass it, but on my phone there is a link on the viglink landing page to continue to northern tool.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Dang! Did he have to use a Chinese motor???

As for the Hilliard clutch... I wouldn't call it "extreme duty" as I blew up one of theirs, just like that, on my sawmill... (as did several other BSM owners)

SR

 

[shadetree]

Thank you, I found the clutch and the pass through link - I guess I'm the type that redirect is designed for - I looked thru all that (missed the continue to Northern).

 

[conkli48]

Ya I am sure there is better clutches. The chinese motors I have heard some say they love em and some say they hate them. So Depends on which one you get. They are alot cheaper thats for sure. But it is pretty easy and cheap to find an old hond or briggs and rebuild them even for similar price and have a better motor. I would research more into clutches if I would do this to an old gutted tractor, the guy says it works fine, but there has to be something even a little better. The guy did mention if he redid it, he would use belts instead of chains to cut down on noise and for ease of changing out and keeping tension. not sure how belts would work in this project but hey why not.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I never said the china motor wasn't any good, it's just too bad one ended up on an classic tractor like that...

I see lot's of old tractors re-powered around here, like this Allis Chalmers with Wisconsin power,

Hilliard CAN build a good clutch, it's just they cost an arm and a leg when you buy the "good" ones.

SR

 

[Groo]

The number of engines that would be "better" than the Chonda are numerous. The number of engines that would do the job as cheaply and easily are pretty few.
Looks like he had about $500 USD into it before the lovely paint job.

The thing most lacking on the finished product looks to be weight on the front tires.

 

[conkli48]

oh i dont disagree with you, I would ideally like to find an old wisconsin or a onan, heck id be cool to do a hit and miss one as well, but that would be crazy expensive. You could easily turn this into an electric project as well, using batteries for front weight and heck make a sun roof out of solar panels to charge while it sits outside. Possibilities are endless, just cool to see some old machines destined to rot in the woods come to life and be useable.