My 99 murray build.

Alright i figured i would make my own post of my mower. My mower started life as a organ doner for my grass cutter. It was in rough shape. It had a 18 horse oppy and a peerless mst 206. So i wonted to build it into a offroad mower. Befor this i had the same mower sept it was a hydro. Had 22 inch tires on rear and thats it till i got mower now. This is what it looked like. When i first started documenting my build

I already had some mods done the first was pulleys foot throttle then brakes. I did the foot to run off governer but still use the hand throttle on governer. To do this i drilled a hole in governer rod put a bolt in it with a 1/8 hole it run cable through bolt with a cable lock from a bike to hold a spring to cable. Then built a cable holder to hold cable at governer rod.
with a bike brake lever
I did a custum pulley setup for clutch. 6 inch front and 5 inch rear. No pix. The brake is a custom hand brake made frome deck lift components ans linkeges.
One of the next thing was exaust. My brother owns a hydrolic hose bisness. And he has a tubin binder so i fabed up a flang and custom bent a piece of pipe to go under the footboard with a TSC muffler and turn down to the ground. But it wasent to last and i did this 3 inch tip with muffler inside it.
Next it was on to wireing push button start and so on. The silanoid has been raised up to just under the steering wheel. Igot the hood from a friend who was tryin to build a fast mower motor (16.5 hp B&S high performance OHV) come from same mower. Cold air intake/snorkle made of 1-1/2 pvc with a china atv filter. The blower cover is of a flathead. I like the old ones better. Plus its what i needed for the shock tower support to work. later found a murray GT organ doner witch is where the 820 come from. The best mod iv done is the 4 link front suspension. Here is a link to that. https://www.atltf.com/t3709-4-link-murray-front-suspintion    
and steering chang from dual tierod to single with drawbar.
just used spindels from an old murray. Just had to modafy the tierod and twist and make the drawbar longer. Also put tierod end on the ends. Works good but i have plans to change it. I have done lots of other lil things here and there like.
Skid plate
Non slip foot boards made from the inside tube of a washing machin.
Hand thottle and choke lever.

Closed off the deck lift hole.

Pullstart.

Removable hood.

Pull thease pins out of bumper.

Its got 26-11x12 tires on rear and 18-9.5x8 on front.
And this is where its at today
Im sure there is more but thats why i started this.

Man that thing is beef, I love the belly pan and skid. Lots of sweet mods man! Is the axle locked?

Not yet. Iv got the stuff to do it. Im doin a spider gear lock. I really dont wont to weld. But its in the proses

I have a Q: how did you do the suspention on the front, and how much to do it?

Link in sibgnitur. About 60dollers i guess

Ight yall got motivated today. Dun some work on it today. Started painting it. Had bought a pad for my grinder to take off paint.
I got the hood finished so her is a sneek peek
Befor

After

So i decided to tear it down and do some work. This took me about 15 min.
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Fixin to do alot of work to it i recon. Gettin it ready for a tracter show june 8th.

I got a lil more done today. Finished painting it and took the 820 out for the locker. Got the 820 took apart and discovered it had some water in it the bearings where dry so i recon it come in around the shifter. But im getting it ready for a tractor show june 7th in stevenson alabama. Yal tell me what yal think about the paint. The bottom has been sprayed with rubberized undercoat. 

Sweet, I'm guessing you are clearcoating the raw steel?

Me like lol great idea that paint job looks sweet if you are in fact leaving the metal bare and clear coating it.

O yea this bad boy has like 7 coats.  Its finished. This took a lot of work to get all the paint off.

It looks nice, I've always wanted one of those style widebodys

I preshat it. Ive had bout 5 diff ones. I love thease models

say where did you get the bigger gas tank? now that my mower has a twin i need one.

Thay come in alot of the murray widebody LT. with the big hood. The one withe the hood skirts on the side of dash. Its 2.8 gallons i run a tank seems like forever. But my oppy on my grass cutter sucks er on down.

ok mine has the big hood but it had a single, so it had the smaller tank i guess. mine is 1.4 gal

My off road mower was a single. 16.5 but it had the big tank. They may have been a special model with them.

Ight boys got lil more dun on er the last few days. Got er painted, locked the 820 and redone shift linkeg. Works great ill upload some pix when it all back together.

Got er pit back together today made so upgrades to the brake linkeg and shift linkeges works much better now. Ill get som pix in a few days. Her is it put together. What you fellas think.  So far i love it. The next task is a foot pedal. Not this bike brake handle. And paint wheels.

I thought it looked good before... Now it looks awesome!

That bare metal is stright up awesome! How tough is it with the clear coat and all?

It will be ok i used enamal paint so its pritty hard. I also waxed it so it stays shiny. Water just beads up and rolls off

Thought i would show yal what i been doin lately. Made a gas pedal. Tired of the stupid bike brake handle. So time to upgrade. So here it is.

I just might have to steal that design!

what tire sizes are you runnin?

Good job on the pedal. You have the two elements that make a meh-pedal into a good one. A return spring, and a stop. Much better!