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   / odd mods #11  
Had a customer that bought a new chinese tractor from Northern Tool and he couldn't find a new engine oil filter to fit locally.....This happened years and now I believe there is a stud you can replace on the engine now....

But I machined an aluminum adapter on the CNC that screwed into his tractor to accept a standard GM oil filter so he could buy one from Wally World....It came out nice...

It seemed odd he couldn't find one but that was before I new of TBN.....

I'm sure you guys would've know in about 16 seconds.....:laughing:
 
   / odd mods #12  
Wdchyd, that's a neat fix. There probably would be/is a market for those things if they were reasonably economical for you to make.

Guyd, I'd like to see pictures of your hand clutch, that's a nice modification.

This is my field expedient repair to a broken range shifter.

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   / odd mods #13  
I'd be interested in this fabrication:D as I been looking around for one of them caps that have the gage built into it and the corkscrew looking float, so far haven't found one that fits, even if i did it most likely wouldn't reach to the bottom of the tank, which wouldn't really a big deal, ;)

Have you looked at DennisKirk.com - Motorcycle, Harley-Davidson, ATV, Dirt Bike, Snowmobile, PWC / Watercraft Parts, Apparel, and Accessories, they have this fuel gauge: http://www.denniskirk.com/denniskirk/b2c/product_images/0/7/0/600pix/07030349.jpg, it's 12.5" long. They may have something else that will fit your application as these fuel gauges were common on most snowmobiles.
 
   / odd mods #14  
Wdchyd, that's a neat fix. There probably would be/is a market for those things if they were reasonably economical for you to make.

Guyd, I'd like to see pictures of your hand clutch, that's a nice modification.

This is my field expedient repair to a broken range shifter.

sadly its just a pipe welded to the foot plate - Im too ashamed to posta pic - and its been chopped off, as she relies on the powershift now, and doesnt do 'fine' work requireing the manual clutch.
 
   / odd mods #15  
Have you looked at DennisKirk.com - Motorcycle, Harley-Davidson, ATV, Dirt Bike, Snowmobile, PWC / Watercraft Parts, Apparel, and Accessories, they have this fuel gage: http://www.denniskirk.com/denniskirk/b2c/product_images/0/7/0/600pix/07030349.jpg, it's 12.5" long. They may have something else that will fit your application as these fuel gauges were common on most snowmobiles.

actually I tried a friends Polaris 4 wheeler fuel cap and was not large enough,
I could explore the option of gutting a unit like this and cutting the center out of the tractors fuel cap and installing the float and gages into it,
 
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let us know if this made any difference? I had same issue with my cutter dropping too low, I racked my brains ... yeah ( in both little toes )trying to figure this out, I was even ready to modify the cutter's A-frame mount in effort to keep the cutter from dropping so low, I stumbled onto something I never knew about and found it to be the issue;)

So, are you going to leave us hanging or are you going to let us in on the secret that turned out to be the issue?? :confused3:

Yes, I just tested my hydraulic lift with my rotary cutter... and... Success! :D It didn't move even a bit. I can move it up and down when I want to, but it doesn't slip at all once I let go of it. Perfecto! When I was making the change last night, I also installed some insurance (which BTW looks like the original Yanmar design too) by adding an adjustable lower stop using a wing nut on a bolt. I didn't bother with changing the lower stop since the normal adjuster wasn't moving, but if it ever does, I can change the stop and it ain't gonna move. :thumbsup: Here are a couple pictures of the completed height adjuster. As I said before, I didn't do anything clever, I just restored it to close to the original design.
 

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   / odd mods #18  
Well this is the reason I held off on explaining any further fixes, I didn't know if yours had done as mine did,
looks like we both have been working on the same things,:D this being one of them;) no point adding the other pictures if you have the problem resolved,
 
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   / odd mods #19  
Well this is the reason I held off on explaining any further fixes, I didn't know if yours had done as mine did,
looks like we both have been working on the same things,:D this being one of them;) no point adding the other pictures if you have the problem resolved,
I took an old leather belt and made a couple friction washers. Its worked great.
 
   / odd mods #20  
Here is my solution to no factory fuel gage hey it works and its un breakable! :D

You may also notice my water bottle holder on my loader control more use of space in an efficient way. :thumbsup:
 

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