Installed a snow plow blade on the 1620 Power king

MNGB

MNGB

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Hi all, well spent a couple of days installing a snow plow blade from my 1973 PK on the 1989 1620, it went well once I got the dozer blade manual out and read it over. The only thing I had to do was drill a couple of 3/8" holes in the tie links, this is because the Plastic King front hitch mounts were changed slightly that being the forward one the 1" slot was changed from vertical to horizontal this required the locking latch to be rotated 90 degrees and this put the holding pin/bolt to be inline with the tie link thus the need to drill the link so the lock pin pass thur link the hitch mount and the latch. The blade now raises and lowers as it should I really wish my tractor had dual hydraulics so the blade could have hydro angling.

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Power angle is something I go round and round about every year. Thought about an electric actuator as being the easiest but costly. It's hard to find one with power and enough holding force at a reasonable price. And have the stroke you need...
 
I hope to use the 1620 for plowing snow this winter so one of the things I wanted was a tail light and a back work light and LED lights are my preference so I fabricated a mount for a LED tail light and that turned out good didn't have a LED light so a Halogen light was used. But I found a pair of LED lights on Amazon, they are 27 watt 4.5" dia and the cost was good $13.50 for the pair, so today they came and I installed one of the LED light assys and I like it it will be great for rear visibility. The 2nd picture is with the shop lights on and the 3rd is with them off

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MNGB said:
Well I bought 24 gals of -20*F wiper fluid today so I can ballast the rear tires then it will be to install a set of chains
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You planning on pumping the fluid in your tires..?

I remember years ago I (younger then) I took the tires off the tractor and just knocked part of the bead down and filled that way. I use a pump now but you have to release the hose every so often to let the air out.

Also have you gotten chains yet.?
 
Hi all, got 10.5 gallons in each tire that went good, Hi 4getgto yes I pumped it in I have a small pump that you chuck up in a 1/4" drill and a bought an adapter on e bay to connect a garden hose from the pump to the tire adapter I than poured 5 gallons into a 5 gal bucket have the rear wheel jacked up off the ground let all the air out and with the valve core remove and valve stem at the top start pumping. Got 5 gallons in then let the air out it just comes back thur the hose and pump by the time I get another 5 gallon into the bucket the air is done and start pumping again when that was in poured another gallon in the bucket and pumped that in but by then the fluid was above the valve stem so about a 1/2 gallon came back out into the bucket then put the valve core in and aired up the tires to 10 PSI Picture of my 1984 but the process is the same

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Hi GB. So one US gallon is about 8 lbs, or so ? So about 90 lbs per tire. That will give you some good traction.

Noel
 
Hi Noel yes I figured I got about 84 lbs per tire so yes that really helps with traction sure would like to find a set of 16" wheel wts for the rears that would really make it complete
 
Hi Noel the Farmall Cub front 12" wheels rims and wts will fit the Power Kings and the IH Cub and "A: 24" wts will work on the PK's with 24 inch rear wheels, but there is not many 16 inch wts that fit the rears, there are of course the OEM PK wts the Case HI-wheel GT's will fit and some farm tractors that had 16" front wheels if they had a wt will work and I've heard but have not checked it out but some combine rear steering wheel wts are suppose to fit
 
So I looked up your 1620 on tractor data, and it says the weight of it is 1100 lbs, so then you added about 200 lb in washer fluid and chains, which gives you about 1300 lbs. If you find 100 lb wheel weights and add those you'd be up to about 1500 lbs. Thats about the base weight of a Farmall Cub. Thats pretty good. Lots of rear weight for traction and about double the hp of a Cub. Then get a real good snow storm and see how it works. Cant wait for the pictures.

Noel
 
Hi Noel I added some wt to the draw bar have about 50 lbs on it did some plowing today and it does very good but its not deep snow so time will tell I'll keep updating as we go.
 
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