2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor

Massive photo dump alert! got a front tree pusher on , rear bar so i can lift the mower out of mud holes, and all the front work ( yes i do need to adjust my top link )

Looks good biggas! I like the front push bar, should be able to do some damage with that, haha. Do you notice a difference with the lower joints being mounted horizontally?

yeah , a little . not very drastic but once i take it on a romp and beat around on it i am guessing it will handle the abuse better than it did before. i want to put mesh on the push bar then put lights on it after i add some top steel.

Nice, Ive come to the stage on my front end where I need traction bars. Where did you get all those heim joints???

muckmudd wrote:

Nice, Ive come to the stage on my front end where I need traction bars. Where did you get all those heim joints???

They are ball joints off of Chinese quads, i am going to put heim joints on it because the joints have some play in them that heim joints wouldn't have.

Took it out on a romp with the camera on my new mount, did pretty good up until i headed home and down shifted hard and i think i broke a shifter key. its still out in the woods.

Camera mount. looks ugly, but once i tighten up the rear bolts that came loose it will be less shakey.


Red Green would be proud of this one. Didnt have any bugee cords so i use the next best thing.


Got extremely stuck. took forever to get '
er out.

Awesome mud action picture! You have some serious muck where you live.

i also have video of getting stuck. just buryied right in. i was up to my knees before i hit a base layer hard enough to support weight.

Well, this sucks . Didnt need to drain the oil to take it apart, cause there weren't any in it!!!

My goodness! That's quite the disaster, that really sucks. Got any plans for a heavier duty transaxle? Like an 820?? Haha

Yeah if i ca get my hands on one, might just find a spicer to throw in it and just live with a junky trans axle or find another mst or 930 and not down shift so hard. I Almost died by going under a tree that fell over the creek to fast and slammed it into a low gear to stop from decapitating myself and thats when all hell broke loose apparently.

Now you can add "Expert Transaxle Wrecker" to your signature too lol.

What a bummer man. It looked like all the gears in there were coated with a nice thick film of oil though.

Yea the gears were very lubed up even though i drug it home with no oil in it after i broke it .

yeah i will put that in my signature because thats the second one i have busted in 3 weeks.

WOW, I bet that thing whined a bit. Man I can just imagine the temperature it got.

It was cool , just broken. i only rode it for like 1 min after i down shifted hard, then it gave up the ghost, er gears , when i started going up hill. Probably wouldn't have broke it if there wouldn't have been a tractor pulling into the field i was mudding in at the time. I kinda scrambled outta there and went the back way home through the creek.

Wow man, that's pretty chowdered! My MST didn't have much oil in it when I got it, when I started working on it again I checked her and there was just a little bit in the bottom of the case. Put the 2 pints or so of 75w-90 i had in her and she quieted down a good bit.

i put about 16 oz in mine , just under half full .

Here is the video from the mudding romp on the murray before i wrecked the tranny.

LOL, that is one of my fears with the camera. Every 2 seconds of cleaning. Nice mud hole BTW!

Yeah i need to move it out a bit more so it doesnt get covered so easily . It took me forever to get out of the mud hole.

Washed it cause it was shedding mud all over the garage .

i really need to get a tranny for this one, then i can start working on the craftsmans front end suspension

Yeah, it'll be nice seeing it running again.

What are you doing for suspension on the other one? IFS or solid axle?

I dont know yet, most likey a solid axle because of the axle i have n it right now is pretty beefy and i like my wheel hubs with the high speed bearings.

Well heres the tranny thats going into this thing. Its a mst 930 , case and bull gear, shifter, and drive gear are 930, the rest is mst 205 parts and gear clusters. Its all together now and rtv is curing

Good, the 900 series are good!