Lloyd Moffitt

[lmoffitt@bellsouth.net]

Hello, by introduction. I am seventy five years retired family doctor who needed something to do in my retirement so like a fool, happened to see a bobcat seven fourty three cheap. I just thought it would be a neat project to rebuild it since someone had stolen the engine. Picked up a neat two k hour three cylinder deutz air cooled fifty horse engine for it. Yup, its been sitting for a year because I cant decide how I am going to hook the engine directly to the pump. When stolen, at the pump is left with a spline. The spline is inch and threequarters with twenty teeth. I was thinking I could go to the junk yard, find a matching end of a drive shaft where the universal joins the splined differential. However I dont know how to find out which junked car came with an inch and three quarter spline twenty tooth so I can saw off about four inches of the driveshaft . Now taking the sawed off end , make a stub shaft and weld the stub shaft to a round piece I can bolt to the flywheel of the deutz. If anyone has done this or replaced a standard bobcat engine with another engine and needed a coupling to go from flywheel to hydraulic pump spline, I would love to hear from them.
I have the following equipment in shop, tig,plasma, twelve inch swing lathe.
I could be barking up the wrong tree, anyone help , new Ideas would be appreciated. lloyd moffitt md lmoffitt@bellsouth.net

 

[jimmyj]

Welcome Lloyd!

I suggest you post this question in owning and operating as you will get more traffic on it there.

Good luck

Jim