What have you done to your tractor today?

do you have any decks to get the pulley off of or maybe the ariens has one?

Welp, dropped the tranny and enigine from the montgomery only thing is i broke all the support bolts in the transaxle  Ill figure it out, but overall a very productive day

Trimmed the footrests down so my front tires don't rub, removed the oil drain tube and put the plug in (the tube was too long and interfered with turning), did a quick fab to put a temp seat on; took it for a ride in the front yard.

Havent giggled like that in awhile, but the wife is sure Im going to kill myself. Note to self, work on that clutch system, because starting out in 5th is a guaranteed wheelie no matter how much I romance that pedal! (only %25 throttle too!)

1997 Murray wrote:

do you have any decks to get the pulley off of or maybe the ariens has one?

Sadly no.

Did a little mudding

Swapped out the rears i see!

Creepycrawler wrote:

Did a little mudding

I see you need a spider web in that grill  

Nice and muddy btw!

cleaned the carb

Locked a random 5 speed Spicer cause I was bored...

i have painted the rims and bumpers it looks cool lol   

Pressure washed them so we can get to the tweaks, repairs, and mods we want to get done before we head up to 1puglife's for the May 24th extravaganza...

Put some much needed juice into M2. I had fitted a 625CA marine deep-cycle battery that I had laying around, but it wasn't keeping a charge. Too old. Marched my butt down to Bass Pro and cashed in some gift cards I had collected. *BOOM* 750CA Optima Blue-Top dual purpose deep cycle. This oughta do!!!

Yard work.

Today I was doing some yard work, then I ran out of gas.  Now I am waiting for gas.  A bigger gas tank is in store for the rally.  i have one just need to move some stuff around to make it work.  Also got some awesome rompin' footage.

ripped out the vari-drive in my mtd! it is going to be a racer i think. made the clutch in only 2 hours! got itto work with the deck belt.

may get this simplicity from my buddy

this is me pulling (with his tractor)

here is the link to his ad: http://bellingham.craigslist.org/grd/4454804333.html

Got some parts painted today, gonna clean up and paint the frame tomorrow , imma try to get a much needed update vid up sunday

I had found a JD 200 awhile back that needed some serious work. The PO was towing boats near the ocean with it and he had put a snowblower motor in it. He said he put an engine in every year because it would eventually break the connecting rod in those motors  

So I took it home and parked it. It was a lawn ornament for a few months. recently came across an old generator (120V only) that had an 8hp B&S and I think I got lucky; It fired up after just adding gas. Didn't have to clean or adjust anything!

So now I'm bringing the Deere back to life. The motor is almost ready to go. I just have to buy a 7/8" bore pulley for the pto.

Yesterday I put some new fuel line in the mtd because it started leaking from dry rot. I adjusted the gov linkage so it idles low. Might need new spark plugs or something but it sounds good and revs quick.

adusted the breaks on my little murray, and loaded up some scrap in my truck so I can have some beer money lol. got to slot my rotor, gear it up with different gears (thanks TRB) and do a general overhaul on the tranny sometime soon.

Bought some parts for it.

Walked by an looked at it.

Painted it for the May 24th trapter 'strabaganza at 1Puglife's.

painted and finally finished the 4 link.....hopefully

the new engine is a 1990's tehcumseh OHV 12HP the original was a 72 flat head briggs 8HP engine 3 of the 4 bolr hole's line up
but the pulley on the engine sit's about 7/8 of an inch to low to aline with the drive system only thing I can think of is to make some wooden spacer's or get a crap load of big washer's and grill the last bolt hole with a barrowed drill