Bigbear4x4
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Has anyone mounted a Sims cab on their BX1500 ? My question is , how do you seal off the shift levers to keep the cold out ? any suggestions ?
Sims cab on my BX1500
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vtsnowedin
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My soft cab is a cover my tractor model but similar. The answer is you don't need it anywhere near air tight to be very comfortable in cold weather. I can look right down to the ground on both sides of the seat but I'm up in the warm air bubble, out of the wind and quite comfortable in winter clothes suitable if I had to step outside to adjust something or hitch onto a log etc. I don't even have a heater but the heat coming of the tractor castings makes it twenty degrees or more warmer then outside the cab. Just not having flying snow slap you in the face is a God send.
Jj1479
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Take a 1/8" sheet of rubber an cut slots in it with a knife to match you lever positions "front to back" then take off the plastic housing an slide it down over your leavers an sandwich it between the plastic housing an the fender. It wont be 100% sealed but really close.
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Bigbear4x4
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Heres the problem, Kubota wasn't thinking when they put the radiator behind the engine instead of in front so the with the fan mounted in front of the radiator , it pulls air from the cab through any crack inside the cab sucking the hot air from my heater in the cab through the radiator . Piss poor design. if I seal up too tight , engine overheats and theres no place to reroute a path for outside air to the fan......
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Bigbear4x4
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thats an idea, thanks
vtsnowedin
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Could you just turn the fan around and have it blow warm air into the cab. Back in the day before cabs they did that on large cat dozers. fan pushing dust away from operator in summer and warm air back at the operator in winter.
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Bigbear4x4
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fan blowing away from engine ? how would this cool down the water and engine ?
vtsnowedin
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The air flowing over the block accomplishes little to nothing. It makes no difference if the air is pushed through or sucked through the radiator as long as the air passes between the coolant filled fins and the metal zigzag strips between them. On a car the radiator is usually on the front where once the car is moving over twenty miles an hour the fan is not needed. A tractor or Dozer moving much slower needs the fan all the time to keep air moving through the radiator.
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Bigbear4x4
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cool , interesting ! but will it pull the exhaust into the cab ?
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Bigbear4x4
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Have you ever seen a BX1500 engine set up , up close ? Honestly don't think they built this with " winter conditions " in mind. If I completely seal off the cab behind the battery than No cold air or snow will blow in through cracks. and I can run the heater on low and without a coat on at -25 F. no problem at all but as soon as I engage my rear pto blower , within 5 minutes my temp gauge starts creeping up to close to the red line at which time i stop the blower and just use the FEL. Frustrating as ****