MTD off-road romper build.

thats cool when you going to put the new trans and bigger tires on it

hay red i was wondering if you have done anything new to it

kawasaki220 wrote:

hay red i was wondering if you have done anything new to it

I've done absolutely nothing to it in the past few months besides put a sticker on it. It's going up to my camp this weekend so ill be sure to grab pics of it up there.

redlinemotorsportts wrote:

I've done absolutely nothing to it in the past few months besides put a sticker on it. It's going up to my camp this weekend so ill be sure to grab pics of it up there.

added sticker, +50 horsepower...

reminds me of 3dmachines hood lol

I need more stickers for the deuce

Moose wrote:

reminds me of 3dmachines hood lol

I know mines tilted, but he takes the cake when it comes to that comp... LOL.

Anyways got some junk done i shoulda did a while ago, but now since its going to my camp for maybe the rest of summer i brought it up to par.

greased front bushings
replaced two bushings
added a spacer on the spindle
hood bungee
charged battery
new 1 7/8" ball for trailers, now i have a 1 7/8" and 2" ball with crescent wrench to tighten them down
wiped down (the 50 stars are all clean lol)
sticker, 55hp added
adjusted throttle for full gov action, little loose before
test drive to prove it was still running good

PICS!

Thanks redzz02!!




One last pic of it next to the mini. MTD will be at my camp for the rest of summer, if it doesnt break or anything.

redlinemotorsportts wrote:

I think big seats on mowers always looks dumb.

Easy for you to say. Your butt wouldn't fill a thimble!

Angchor wrote:

redlinemotorsportts wrote:

I think big seats on mowers always looks dumb.

Easy for you to say. Your butt wouldn't fill a thimble!

Hey that's just me, like if someone puts anything the size of a boat seat or bigger I think it just ruins the look, doesn't matter what tractor.

Always liked the paint job on this one man, looks so nice on it

Here you are folks!







Little yard work


Our rock bluff, 40 ft cliff!





After some serious trails, i think i might re-consider getting new tires and the 820, and just keep what  got, i love them small tires, the worked great on the soft dirt and rocks.

What i need:
Belt keepers
Brakes, hand brake
New steering box and steering stops
Front axle traction bar/stabilizer

all come on man you haft to put the 820 and bigger tires you might even say why didny i do this sooner

kawasaki220 wrote:

all come on man you haft to put the 820 and bigger tires you might even say why didny i do this sooner

I guess thats still up in the air. ill see what happens

id blow the old up before upgrade. Personal opinion of mine of course. I would try a more aggressive rear tire tho. My buddy gets around as good as i do with stock 4 wheeler tires.. until his tires cake up with mud and i keep truckin along.

Only upgrades i would do to this tractor of yours would be,
Tires, front and rear. but only front because i like ag's in the front.
Mtd "Fat man" chair seat.
foot brake, i like having a free hand.
ungovern it
bigger bumpers, but we demo derby each other...
and a joe dirt foot gas pedal.

Basically all personal preferences..

TroyBilt Pony wrote:

id blow the old up before upgrade. Personal opinion of mine of course. I would try a more aggressive rear tire tho. My buddy gets around as good as i do with stock 4 wheeler tires.. until his tires cake up with mud and i keep truckin along.

Only upgrades i would do to this tractor of yours would be,
Tires, front and rear. but only front because i like ag's in the front.
Mtd "Fat man" chair seat.
foot brake, i like having a free hand.
ungovern it
bigger bumpers, but we demo derby each other...
and a joe dirt foot gas pedal.

Basically all personal preferences..

I was thining about a custom gas petal, like the mowrons.
murray seat
carsile 18 snow hogs, just need to find snapper rer 8" rims (?) then i could have snapper hubs up front and bronze bushings...
looking at 12" rim sized tires and have some in mind. just going to have to see about that, this will all probably happen in winter.

they always say go big or go home so go with the 820 and if you want custome make the rim to fit the 820 and small enough to fit your small rear tires

my ag front tires are like 18in tires. they eat everything lmfao

TroyBilt Pony wrote:

my ag front tires are like 18in tires. they rape everything lmfao

Ill see what i can get my hands on. a few options... not really in a rush

i think this has to be one of the most transformed mowers outta all atltf correct me if im wrong but just spend an hour going thru this hole thread wow red what all that mtd has been thru lol

More wheeling last sunday. We rake the crap from the water back onto the beach and kart it off. two weekends ago, my dad did this with the stock grass cutter by himself, and said he had to use his jeep to hook up to the trailer, tow the trailer off, hook it back up to the mower, dump it in the woods, and then repeat. Took him all day. Oh boy, shoulda saw his face when i tugged that 300lb trailer off with ease on mine. Came back saying, "see, its good for something." He gave me the "pshhhhhh" face. LOL


Foot or so tall wall. approach angle is great with these tires!

The steering pinion/column stripped more teeth. Maybe about 3 teeth gone now it just jumps over. So, ill throw a new column in there because i have no fabrication tools or time to do anything major up there. this winter i want to try out a completely different steering setup. We will see what happens, thats a little ways off.

I strarted to interest about this thread because this is now at page 42 and that meens something has been done to this tractor.

What an awesome ideas. You are not thinking to do something you are doing and make it to work. I will defenately check what is the next update because it seems that this build is never ends.

Deluxe66 wrote:

this build is never ends.

Thanks, you are right about that.

I'm going next weekend and will do more riding. I think sometime in October I will be able to bring it back home and introduce new upgrades.

-new suspension
-new steering
-new rear axle
-new rear tires.

Update.

Ive decided if i want to make changes to this, this winter is the time to do it. Plan is to make it bulletproof, hop on and ride, never break deal because with college coming sooner then i probably think (heads up for you juniors in school) i wont be able to do much to it. Going to leave it at my camp too for most of its life.

Plans (front end)
Mono link suspension using a single heim and pan-hard bar
1x2" 5/16 front axle beam
atv coils and coil buckets with limiting straps (ditching leafs)
John deere 1" spindles with the bearing rims they have (tapered roller bearings)
21x7-10" tires up front (rear tires that are on it now)

(rear end)
820 out back, already locked
murray 5/16" tranny mounts
brace hitch mount on bumper
new shifter
battery
seat?
belt
23x8-10 swamp foxes


going to try to keep low lcg on huge tires, i found out big front tires=mount larger rocks


Undecided on steering, needs to be beef and no play, im sick of crap steering

Going to happen all winter long, tractor comes back to my house in late October, November. Want to get in good rides when the campground closes.

Easiest thing for steering would probably be to find a steering box off of something. Like a john deere 110 steering box. Or the one guy on youtube used the worm gear setup from a snow blower drive as a steering box. Might be geared a little low though.

mr.modified wrote:

Easiest thing for steering would probably be to find a steering box off of something. Like a john deere 110 steering box. Or the one guy on youtube used the worm gear setup from a snow blower drive as a steering box. Might be geared a little low though.

I was thinking of a box mounted right by the axle, u joints to the box. Not sure though, might do a jd box deal.

Pics from this weeked. had a good time.










Video!