Belt to chain gear box ?'s

How would a belt to chain 3spd gear box hold up to a 17 hp opposed twin and like 24's? I found a really rusty old huffy mini tractor in the woods and it has one of those gear boxes on it.
Looking to make a lifted monster mower with it and my twin.

It came off a mower like this

im not shure but it probally would hold up to those size tires. A peerless 700 is one of the toughest 3 speeds around, so you could use that instead.

hey, I have one of those right now. umm, the trans can hold up to a lot - theyre direct gear and no chain internals so (that is assuming its a stock trans to the mower)... I imagine it'd be fine. Ive had as big as a 16 up to my trans that came off the huffy and it never skipped a beat (or a tooth)

Awesome do you know the gearing in those

I had a huffy, still have pieces of the transmission on the shelf. They are single speed, foward/reverse.

This one is 3 SPd neutral and reverse

Drag it home, clean it up, and see if there's any markings on it. It's probably pretty stout. Transmissions like that give you lots of gearing options. Instead of overspeeding (or overtorquing) the input, use the output sprocket/axle sprocket to achieve your final drive ratio.

Here's the huffy just a little rusty  just need to get the bottom pulley off to be able to pull it

WOW! Be sure your tetanus shot is up to date!

It is lol and couldn't find any markings on it must be on bottom

Lucky bastard. Bush i could find a mower like that. Does it have a motor on it?

Wish i could. Not bush i could. Auto correct thinks it can type for me

No motor that's all that was on it that is the mower

Wow. So basicly just the frame?

Like half the frame lol and that gear box and parts of the hood the grill front axle and steering wheel and column

Cool. Still a lucky find tho.

Wonder how it got there

Ya well it was in the woods along with like 6 mobile homes 6 vw bugs an old Lincoln car, a Datsun pickup, a Honda chopper, and aome other stuff also another mower frame

k2500life wrote:

Ya well it was in the woods along with like 6 mobile homes 6 vw bugs an old Lincoln car, a Datsun pickup, a Honda chopper, and aome other stuff also another mower frame

 Don't you even think about takin anything off that property without the landowners permission!

Ya I know I looked it up there isn't a landowner it's all just abandoned on unowned property by someone who stayed there
illegally

I didn't take any of that stuff someone else already did

Unowned property in FL?!?

Yep this is Loxahatchee we're talking about here it's still not fully developed

If you can claim salvage titles, the Honda chopper and the VWs are worth something.