-= Li'l Red =-

I think I have the belt idler fixed.  New belt guide installed.  Few more things to resolve.  It's running super rich I figured out.  I do have some adjustment to the carb.  I'll turn down the idle jet a bit.

If she’s blowing smoke just slap a Detroit Diesel sticker on er and call it good. Glad she’s fixed!

Watching...
Tippy is scary. I’m lowering the rig I am making for my grandson.
Keep at it!

Rustbucket Garage wrote:

If she’s blowing smoke just slap a Detroit Diesel sticker on er and call it good. Glad she’s fixed!

For a few dollars more, Autolite has an Iridium spark plug for the L head.  I am going to try that out.  I got those today.  I have some platinum briggs plugs in the engine for next year's build-off.  Talk about a purr and good response.

Nevadablue wrote:

Watching...
Tippy is scary. I’m lowering the rig I am making for my grandson.
Keep at it!

Yeah, same here, I am going back down to a 23 inch bearclaw.  Much wider and not rounded tire like what is on it now.  Those come in next week.  I'll video this stuff and show it off.

The rear tires on it now, I will more than likely put on my Sears Suburban.  The duro's I have on it now are just way too big.

Boy, you keep hinting at this new build, and I’m not sure I can bear to wait until next year!

Rustbucket Garage wrote:

Boy, you keep hinting at this new build, and I’m not sure I can bear to wait until next year!

Same here!

Those iridium plugs in Red…..  OMG total difference!!!

Top speed right now with 6" engine 5" transaxle.

UH oh!  I realized something that needed fixed.  Video on that later.

As promised...

Wow! 31 MPH. Kinda scary actually. LOL

I’m glad the transaxle issue wasn’t fatal. They are hard to find here, I hope to not need a spare.

Hard to find here too.  I lucked out on this one.  It came off a Murray Ultra I think.  Dude near me had it and sold it for $30.  For once, I was able to be the one to pounce on the ad in minutes.

Got it done!

Those are some nice tires, way to go! How wide is Red’s rear now?

I'm 39" in the front and 43" in the rear.  I could pull that in to 40 pretty easily, but why bother.  LOL.

Wicked cool stance! New tires oughta corner a lot better being that they are square shouldered.

Took red out for a 5 mile round trip today.  Wanted to get it all warmed up to see how some of the items I worked on panned out.

After the 5 miles, no drips in the garage.  I checked the axles and they were still clean.  I did get on it a few times during the trip.  Also checked the oil leak on the engine.  So far so good at this time.

Decided to narrow up the back a bit.  Now sits at 41.5 inches in the rear.

Couple new glamour shots.... Was able to take a slow lap around the yard with it today.  Hoping the back continues to improve so I can take this guy off-road again.  Got to take the Daughter and test out Bowser sometime!

Hope the back get to better quicker... I noticed I will need to do some Clutch fixing on Li'L Red.  It's not right....

Once I get The Green Machine out of the garage, I'm going to pull in Red for the clutch fix.  At least I think it is the clutch.  It is a bit wobbly and something is really giving the grind on release.    Here is how it has been set up since 2016...



If I hadn't chopped and reused some of the original clutch parts, I would consider going back to a single clutch.  I mentioned in my fleet post that I was going to put in the v-twin.  That was before I remembered I completely overhauled the oppy in Red and put in Irridium L-head plugs in it.  

I'm Not going to lie... there may be some parts from Kal go into red as well.

im a big fan of this tractor those tires all around are just dreamy the only thing i never was a fan of is how the murrays look i have one and i like it but how lifted it its it just kinda looks funny.

I like the hood of Red (opposed twin hood) over the hood on Bowser (single hood)

wait the bigger hood is for a twin so my widebody lt was a twina dn its had a 15hp swap?

It's possible to have had a single, but more likely used for a twin.

Going to perform some updates to Li'l Red again.  Not mentioned in the video... I will be going back to the single pulley clutch.  I left the single on Bowser and it seems to be much more fluid than Red's.  Also, less pulleys to fail.