What have you done to your tractor today?

That 3-wheeler is hilarious lol... I made a new bolt-on hub and changed a badly worn axle on my Rally. Hopefully I can get some reliable service from it again.. Man went almost a year with no major problems then blew everything up within 2 weeks....

After some trail running yesterday with ropertractor14 I had some steering damage.... replaced the inner steering rod end, and straitened out the rod, gusseted the tab on the steering spindle, and took the Rally mudding today after some heavy rain. The big hole was deep, water up to my airbox, and the mudhole I reamed thru about 20 runs, I can make it thru now without gettong OFF the tractor although I have to do some pretty nifty leaning to get traction lol

I have beenworking on my big green beast geting the tires changed douly truck snow tires on the back and the tractor style 10 x 20'' on the front all I have left is the front it is giving me truble might have to extend the front axel or put stopes on it this thing is looking good sorry cant do more than 5 pictures a month with photo bucket it is ether free or not why 5 a month!

Re-wired my headlights after that electrical disaster. Learned my lesson. This time I added a fuse to the fancy circuit. Completely burned every inch of wire for my lights and burned all the loom and connectors. So I just got back from some night wheeling after yet more heavy rain, the trails are nasty (awesome)

got the motor back on today and got my gas pedal mounted! Woohoo! lol.

working on a racer and a dune buggy.
started on the steering for the craftsman and mounting the front a arms on a buggy frame I built about 5 years ago. getting a suspension upgrade and a motor/ tx swap. the old suzuki 125 that was on it was about shot.

still working on the buggy. (1/4 atv 1/4 garden tractor 1/2 homemade junkyard stuff)
I'd call it a frankenbuggy but a believe that one is already taken
its come a long way from this....


to this (and still a long way to go)....

i finally got my piece of garbage MTD to fire, now my battery is dead so i cant crank it to see if it will keep running. god dammit

got the "bomber seat" and fender patch done on the lowrider

well what i did waas i changed my stack to an exauste like arilds that goes under my footressed and i changed the silanoid and thats just about it

Well i had gotten a agway few weeks ago and just got it running and pulleys from being stuck yesterday,today took it for a ride and then found out the rear is shot the left axle shaft has a worn spot in the trans after i took it apart today,so i decided to just use it as a parts rig for my 84 mtd. Well i got some freebies yesterday
i got a 90 murray? 12hp with a nice hole through the block but it has a 5spd and a solid 1pc frame so im going to use this for my off road/muding tractor. Also scored 2 atv frames one with nice tires/wheels/hubs/parts . Im going to use that for my off roader,and i got a kids atv frame with good tires/axle/frame i might turn that into a bar stool type cart but idk yet. Heres some pics of the freebies

Great score!

For hardcore offroading watch the one piece frames - Chunk ( moderator) had one and cracked it right down the middle - for light duty trail riding it should be okay, for heavy offroad it should be reinforced with steel bracing inside to keep the frame from flexing.

Heres the link to his build: http://atltf.forumotion.com/t25-al-ko-mudding-tractor-build

My agway has a similar one piece 'pan' chassis - i most likely wont be reinforcing it since it wont see a whole lot of offroading.

I have a 'mini ' atv as well - was one of those razor kid's electric types - its built pretty well , my nephew tore out most of the stuff ( wheels/rear axle) and gave me the chassis- i plan on cutting the frame to adapt a 5HP honda horizontal shaft motor- im not sure wether ill keep the original body or mount a lawntractor body on it - ill have time to think about it since i most likely wont work on it for a while.

I finally got this bitch running!!

got bored and started painting. still have some welding to do .. but I like the smell of burning paint
still gotta do the axle spacers on the cart and finish the motor mounts, then shifters. more body work on the lowrider. havent even bought parts for the jack shaft yet

I like those projects Ratt88 - you did a clean job on the fenders /seat on the hot rod - you putting any padding in there ? On one of my works in progress i used a plain metal seat pan , actually its not too bad to sit in , might leave it as is.

With some AG tires on the buggy, itd be unstoppable.

I havent planned on padding, the bottom isnt supported other than suspended from the top. its pretty solid but has a little bounce to it. I have a friend that does hotrod interiors. I might get him to do a little diamond tuck if decide to do a full on show rig.
as for the cart, this is a stronger ( and more complicated ) version of one I did about 20 years ago. that one would pop wheelies in the snow with stock tires

What motor you planning on for powering it - the hot rod?

I still have like a dozen mod projects id like to finish some year .... 3 id really like to finish are my wizard go kart, 69 wheelhorse rat rod and agway trail rider.

I am still waiting on a motor.

Had to dig this up, nobody has used this one lately..
Mostly done with the lowrider steering, need to finish up clutch/ brake , exhaust and wiring.
Aint had time to do crap on the swamp donkey, I got 2 busted 4 wheelers, fuel pump out of the toyota "gator" and its mowing season allready

I hear ya, all I've been doing is springtime maintenance, which probably should have been fall maintenance.

Im still working on my 90 task force :

Its actually 90% done now- havent got updated pics yet...



These i dragged home a lil while ago - a 98 poulan( runs) and a 90's GT murray( no motor) - both are going to be parts ( poulan chassis will be used for something eventually) - the murray will most likely wind up on both the agway and my mod murray - the hood im going to try and mount on the 94 murray , the trans is a stout 5 speed with 1" axles which will go into the agway with some modding:


In addition to the tractors i got a bunch of ATV tires with rims, also have a set of 10" golf kart wheels with low profile tires . Only thing for those atv rims is i need some hubs or make some.

I often find myself wishing I had a buddy local who was into modding tractors like I am. But then I see everyones pics of their "collections" and think, if there was more than one of us in a location, we'd have to split all the mower parts, haha.

yeh but you would be splitting 2x the parts. I got a few guys around here , not much on the wrench , but they can find cheap parts

dangeroustoys56 wrote:

the trans is a stout 5 speed with 1" axles which will go into the agway with some modding

Likely the venerable Peerless 820. I picked up a free Murray GT last summer & that's what it had in it for a rear end

AcreFarm : I was like " Holy crap- thats a 1" axle!" - heck the front spindles are even beefy . Ill have to pick up a couple more wheel adapters tho or make some - my 1st set are going on the mod murray to mount the 10" golf kart wheels.


Jamus: My wife probably thinks the same thing - i have quite a bit of stuff around and its mostly me tinkering ( after honey do lists)- sometimes my nephew comes over, he had a few plans for a mod, but then he discovered girls and freinds into offroading/mudding, so he doesnt come over much anymore.

Itd be cool to know someone else around that liked to mod tractors tho.


A thought occoured recently about maybe changing gears here- since the GT murray isalready built for the trans, might just be easier to use that murray for an off roader - id return the agway back to stock i guess - ill think about it more when i get to working on it.