"Race" Tractor

[mr.mindless]

I had a poopy first race. I flopped it during my third lap, and it quit a lap later. Couldn’t re fire. Reason completely unknown. It wasn’t hydro locked, maybe the neutral safety got wet? It fixed itself after sitting while I played course worker.

Will thought it was badass and it got a lot of film time beforehand. I mentioned that I thought it was a power issue and that I could have used that battery sponsorship. He said that he could too, it wasn’t there….

So a few hours later after 35 laps were done, and I fired up and loaded, an announcement was made of a second race! Mike Catrini got that Optima sponsorship, and was like 4 hours late. So we ran another 14 laps of which his insane link suspension solid front axle wheelhorse did I think 3 laps. And I took second. I had a small choke issue for a couple laps, it ran great after i turned that all the way off again. the hydraulics were getting hot by about lap 10 or 12 and i had to use low a lot more. With a better resi and cooler this unit could make use of a dumb motor and really be dumb. Needs bumper and need to load the front tires. Wheelie machines, all.

No injuries among the crowd. About 1/3 of the trimmers survived.
This should make a sweet pit runner with a more normal exhaust, though that’s not really needed anywhere…

Pics on fb

[mr.mindless]

 Mike’s machine. Steering is not good… I don’t know what took it out just that they were working on it for most of the race. Rears are 30” Utv Boggers on 15s.

Front is a double triangulated solid axle with Blaster hubs. Steering is all jacked up and has criminal geometry. Really looks good sitting still though!

[M4wdFab]

Nice work!

[mr.mindless]

Intended mods in the future:

NSS bypass or override
Voltmeter and GEN warning light
Big automotive battery all the way up front
Load the front tires
Put a fan back on the hydro cooler
Adjust carb for better bill climb power if possible
Delete choke lever or somehow make it harder to accidentally part choke it

Better high/low shifter that I can reach and can be abused for power shifting

Maybe a foot travel control so I can shift high/low while feathering travel control with my foot

Front tire cutting brakes

I guess there’s some bypass relief that can be tightened to push more through the motor and let the engine bog. A mower puller who was there used to pull with a 444 eventually broke the rear axle after much abuse.

Better hyd oil or cooler or resi. Was either cooked or aerated after some hard run time

Roll hoop
Bumpers
Lights
Fix hood hinges
Reasonable exhaust? Heat shield?
Big 20hp v-twin

[mr.mindless]

Rumor: more use at Field & Forest soon?

[mr.mindless]

I suddenly understand how people accidentally 25 garden tractors. I want this so very badly for spares and for the 16hp twin.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/515826569982505/

There’s a Grizzly 600 that fell off a trailer to do McPherson ifs with 25” tires for a decent price too. With a spare 600cc single leftover in the mix….

[etk300ex]

Step away from the marketplace.  I repeat, step away from the marketplace.

[Callelle]

I just read through 2 pages of full fledged winga dinga and I love it.

[mr.mindless]

Whoops!

Grabbed this 16hp unit from Chadley just now. His new place is pretty nice for him. Half acre lumber yard in progress!



I kinda want to just put big tires on it with better front spindles and rock it, see how it compares. Or maybe try for a simpler McPherson strut front end and build a second.  But with 25s and 37s instead of 21s and 31s

[mr.mindless]

Extremely successful shakedown. Mowed about 2 acres after installing a battery and fixing a fuel leak.

Keeping an eye out for a Polaris with mcphearson strut front. Or could just put good hubs and 10-12” front wheels. Want to put 37s shared with buggy on the back.

[etk300ex]

That’s a sweet unit to cut up

[mr.mindless]

Looked for my ram dually front hub spacers and could not find them. Pretty sure they’ll work perfectly to adapt to 17” racelines with 37s. I think I’m can put a 6” pattern into the wheel mounter surface and then mount the wheel to what’s supposed to be the hub side either with conical seat bolts or drill and put studs there.

Smike, any recollection of whether I traded those away sometime?

[M4wdFab]

thinking hard, i honestly have zero recollection of you have a set of dually spacers. 


i remember me at one point considering a dually conversion on my 01' but that never happened. 

[mr.mindless]

Last time I remember handling them for sure was about that long ago, seeing if dually wheels could be spares on the wedge for some reason or something.

[mr.mindless]

Need to pull a couple more things from both Case tractors (implement lift parts) and probably get more things on eBay if I do these again.

Have learned a few things.

Can just about pay for a cheap tractor with a good PTO and rear tires. Front axles will probably get scrapped.


Delivering the trencher Friday too.