Snow Snow blower chute deflector

[woodstock]

Here is the actuator switch just to the left of the key switch. It is a self centering two way toggle, up or down to rotate it one way or the other. Notice it is covered in rubber so your tongue won't stick to it.

<font color=red>Winnipeg, Manitoba</font color=red>

2001 BX2200 (65 hrs)

 

[pcmem]

Woodstock,

Thanks much for the pics!

Michael

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Just to wrap this up, I was told by Carver that the hydraulic chute deflector control is not available. They also quoted $406 for the electric version. I emailed Kubota from their own site asking about the hydraulic setup, but they never replied.

Woodstock, thanks for the pictures. I may end up with the electric control.

Huckflynn, I really need to direct the snow stream up and down. When I plow near the house, I can't just throw it up into the sky like I do on the driveway. Besides, when the wind is fishtailing around, it's nice to lay the stream down on the ground rather than up to blow back on me.

 

[pcmem]

A BIG THANK YOU! to Woodstock for the pics and info on his factory chute rotator. I finished my homemade copy last month but have been too busy to post pics. I'll attempt to do that now /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. I took a power wiper motor and power window motor out of a junked car. Both seemed to be feasable to the application but I picked the window motor as it was faster rotating (and I can get identical spares /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif ).

 

[pcmem]

Here is a pic of the mounting bracket. This was the trickest part. After I unbolted the factory hand crank ujoint assembly I made some tagboard cutouts to use as a template. Then I did some measuring and refreshed my trig skills to get the mount centered on axis. After doing this I see why the manual calls out a different (shorter) actuator leadscrew and mount (look at the pics woodstock posted). I then cut the metal on a bandsaw, formed it up, marked and drilled the holes. After a quick fitup and test I removed it for painting and final assembly. I only painted the mounting bracket and left the motor assembly as it came out of the car. Here's a picture of the mount as seen from the front.

You can also see the blue and black power wires running across the quick hitch lines.

 

[pcmem]

I then copied Woodstocks install of the control switch. I picked up a DPDT momentary switch and rubber weather cap at the local Farm & Fleet along with an inline fuse holder, heat shrink tubing, and some cable guard to match and cleanup the install. I put 4 wires in the cable guard and fished it through the hole in the firewall Kubota used. Two wires are for the chute rotator and the two extra are for a light I've considered adding but haven't yet so they are taped off.

I then soldered up the batt lead to fuse, fuse to one common on the switch. Next was the ground to the other common on the switch. Finally the two wires from the motor get connected to one each of the switch contacts on one end, then bridged and crossed to the switch contact on the other end. This basically causes the 12V DC to reverse polarity when switched from one side to the other thereby reversing the motor. Everything tested out okay so I went looking for a mounting location.

Shining a light under the dash I found some interesting things. First off there are two square knockouts moulded in the plastic next to the switch. I picked one and drilled a hole for the switch (since it needs a round mount). Installed the switch and cap. Here's a pic but it isn't nearly as nice as woodstocks (I need a digital camera /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif ).

On a side note I noticed a second set of dash lights under the existing ones. A couple of signals and a temp all without lights but this got me to thinking there should be a hydrostatic temp sender that uses the blue/white wire under the seat and goes to where the temp light indicator is. This is just my speculation and may be for the european models. Maybe worth its own thread sometime.


Well that's all there was to it. Again thanks to Woodstock for the pics to get me going.

Later days,
Michael

 

[huckflynn]

I don't know about everybody else -- but I'm very much impressed!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif And how does everything work? Have you put her through the mill under stress conditions?

 

[Charliebrn]

Awesome post! Just the kind of stuff I love this site for!

 

[pcmem]

huckflynn,

It works very slick (I even impressed myself /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif ). It's designed that by removing the two mounting bolts and single bolt on the screw and replacing them I could return to the factory manual method. No need to do that so far /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif .

I'm playing around with a plastic soft cab of sorts for snowblowing and the power rotator simplified the cab design. No need to access the chute crank on the right side. I hope to be able to close in the right side around the joystick and only have a door on the left. If I could find a control valve to fill the empty slot on the right of the BX I'd hook that up to the quick hitch and leave the joystick with the loader.

Thanks,
Michael