[Complete] MTD Rasentrac B10 Garden and Offroad Mower [2018 Build-Off Entry}

Nice shifter setup! Should work well.

AllisKidD21 wrote:

Nice shifter setup! Should work well.

Thanks! I think the same.

Body reinstalled

The Mower stripped down to the Frame looks very ugly, so i decided to reinstall the Mower Body. Grill, Hood, Fender,.... I especially bought this model, because i like the body of the mower.











Now the mower looks like a mower again! I want to test my build maybe 1 month or so, before painting, because if i need to change something, i need to repaint it again   Without the deck, the AG Tires, the Homemade Muffler, and the LED Lights, it looks a bit naked and definately non-finished!

A lot of work I need to do!

Damn, we have now the next Weeks the Important Tests at school for my Graduation  so i ca'nt do much on my mower, need to learn

yes you do have lots to do but it looks like a tractor again!

That's a nice looking mtd!

Looking good! Good luck with school!

Hey she looks pretty good on all fours! I've got exams coming up soon too, good luck!

Crazy_Carl wrote:

yes you do have lots to do but it looks like a tractor again!

Yeah. Want to do the Test Drive soon!

Double W Cross Ranch wrote:

That's a nice looking mtd!

Thanks. All the newer MTDs are looking very ugly and were made out of tin can steel. Mine is also not the strongest, but better than the newer ones you can buy in the hardware store

MightyRaze wrote:

Looking good!  Good luck with school!  

Thanks! We had written the 1st test today.

MatthewD wrote:

Hey she looks pretty good on all fours! I've got exams coming up soon too, good luck!

definately looking great! Love the look of those wide tires on the rear. Wish you also good luck on your exams.

Homemade Glasspack Muffler

I talked about my Muffler a few days earlier in the Chatbox, once i had worked on them. Now i had finished him. It's actually my 1st homemade Muffler. Before i only made tin can straight pipes for push mower engines

I used an old GDR Fire Extinguisher, a old car Exhaust, some steel pipe and the stock MTD B&S Muffler.

I cut the bends and the flange for the exhaust port from the stock muffler, to use them for my new one.





I cut a hole in the Top and the Bottom of the Fire Extinguisher, and opened the car muffler to get the glass wool and the pipes with the holes.



WARNING: Reusing this glass wool is a very dirty Job! Now my shop is contaminated with the soot, coming from the glass wool, and also you need to scratch oneself from the wool. I'm VERY VERY VERY happy to finished this dirty Job.



I wrapped the glass wool around the holepipes from the muffler, and pushed both inside of the cut opened extinguisher. Then welded the holepipes on the Extinguisher.





I closed the new muffler with my ugly welds



And welded the outlet of the car exhaust on top of my muffler, to put the gases away from me



Mockup how it will look:



Now i welded the muffler on the pipe  (I had a few Problems to do this on the mower, and because of that fact, my welds are looking so awful, but no one would see them later     )



Now It's finished! (On the Picture you ca'nt see, but i had welded a support bracket on there, to remove some Stress from the manifold bolts.)



I do'nt paint it, because, of that fact, i told you in the thread before.

I had'nt tested it until now, but i think, i will get a good low and very deep tone from the muffler, on Idle, you can hear the strokes very good, and through the big resonance pipe in the muffler, it will sound like a big engine, but it's only 400cc. The Glasspack Technology also helps, to quiet the exhaust down a bit, but still louder and sounding much cooler than the stock muffler.

I'm very excited for the Soundcheck, and i will make a Video about it, and upload it here.

First i wanted to make a removable one, but decided against it, because i want to experiment some other things on my next build for 2019 (Plans are secret!)

Cool homemade glass pack!  Now you just need to put a thrush sticker on your hood.

Ooh that looks awesome man! Nice job!

Crazy_Carl wrote:

Cool homemade glass pack!  Now you just need to put a thrush sticker on your hood.

Maybe, if i get one

Double W Cross Ranch wrote:

Ooh that looks awesome man! Nice job!

Thanks. Much work for a good looking result that sounds better than any car or mower or anything here in my village

Sweet glass pack Sebastian! I like the tip at the end, looks pretty neat.

I hope she's good and loud too!

Cool Exhaust! I like how you used bits from old car mufflers. What type of welder are you using? Arc?

Hmm... my post from earlier seems gone. Very nice exhaust.

MatthewD wrote:

Cool Exhaust! I like how you used bits from old car mufflers. What type of welder are you using? Arc?

I use MAG with flux core wire. Stick welder i can also use, but i do'nt like to use it, because the electrode likes to stick often on my welds

AllisKidD21 wrote:

Sweet glass pack Sebastian! I like the tip at the end, looks pretty neat.

I also like the tip, it do'nt blew me the fumes in my face

Double W Cross Ranch wrote:

I hope she's good and loud too!

its louder than the stock one, but a bit quieter than straight piped, and has an nice deep tone in idle

MightyRaze wrote:

Hmm... my post from earlier seems gone.  Very nice exhaust.

happened me also a few weeks ago

Dual Throttle and non- finished mower porn

With my new Muffler (I love this thing sooo much) the mower is looking way better than stock, and the wide rear tires making him looking mean









Now it's time to build a dual throttle setup

I used a wood screw and a piece of stainless and drilled a few holes in the piece of stainless, and press. fitted the screw in there



It's working very very well, you can set full throttle or small idle, and if you want to use the foot throttle, you can push it, and the engine wo'nt overrrev like making the foot throttle on the governor. the spring helps to pull it back stronger. You need to twist the screw in the small hole for the stock throttle, and bent the ends of the bowden, so it works.

Here is a Video of the Teardown, once it were stock

I knew, this Video is very old, from February, but i'm very busy, and have not much time for editing

Nice throttle setup!

This dual throttle setup is great!  Doesn't look hack or anything.  Looks like it should hold up pretty well over time.  I might adapt something like this on one of my machines some day.  Luckily you have lots of room to work with that style governor linkage.

I like that dual throttle setup without bypassing the governor. I might have to steal that idea in the future

Awesome work on that dual throttle control! Seems like a great way to do it really.

Double W Cross Ranch wrote:

Nice throttle setup!

Thank you!

Crazy_Carl wrote:

This dual throttle setup is great!  Doesn't look hack or anything.  Looks like it should hold up pretty well over time.  I might adapt something like this on one of my machines some day.  Luckily you have lots of room to work with that style governor linkage.

Yeah, this setup works very well. Built sturdy to last long enough. I like dual throttle really

MatthewD wrote:

I like that dual throttle setup without bypassing the governor. I might have to steal that idea in the future

You can steal it! For that this Forum is made!

AllisKidD21 wrote:

Awesome work on that dual throttle control! Seems like a great way to do it really.

Had'nt thought, all of you like that thing soo much, but i had'nt seen such thing on a other mower

I've seen dual throttle setups on a few different tractors, but none that use the governor for both controls like yours does. Pretty neat setup!