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[dodge trucker]

Same with my 05 ranger. Won’t go into over drive until warmed up.

Noel

Yeah sounds like the dodges where they are programmed not to allow OD until the coolant reaches a certain temp.

And Kenny do yourself a favor and add another trans cooler to whatever is already there. I have rebuilt a few of those things, I usually add a mild shift kit to beef things up a bit. And the right fluid, though not cheap does make a difference. I get my ATF+4 from Walmart, over a bu

 

[dodge trucker]

A little bit yesterday and a bunch more today I ran that cub 1200 all over the place, just pulling the sweeper. As done as I'm gonna be for harvesting leaves this year, other than 100 times of set the ladder, scoop as far as I can reach in the gutters, climb down, move ladder 3' and repeat. I see that this gear drive cub is alot faster in high gear with the throttle at idle than my S16H Ariens is with everything at full tilt. I have to check out the trans linkage on the Ariens as it is a slug compared to my other ones just like it.
If I don't give it He11 the sweeper don't work very well, gotta go fast with it or it don't throw over the leading edge of the basket. So it don't go into the basket, but just gets plugged and puts the leaves back on to the ground and builds up in front of the sweeper, the wheels bind up and I wind up dragging the sweeper and plowing a wall of leaves ahead of it. Give it He11 and it'll dang near throw leaves up and over the back of the sweeper. Don't fare well for getting close to objects when you gotta run the thing so fast. It needs to be geared different to be effective, slower ground speed and faster broom speed. This is an Agri fab 38" sweeper, the brush seems in great shape. I still have a fire in the gravel at the end of the driveway, it smoldered all night, when I started adding leaves to the pile today I didn't even have to relight it.
At one point yesterday I had the bed of my truck headed to as high as I could reach, I added that to the fire after dinner, and it went all night. I added another 15 to 20 sweeper loads of additional leaves to the fire today.
1st thing this morning I ran a self propelled push mower over the yard to try and chop the leaves up, it did about 1/2 of them, spit the rest out around the deck whole. But it was enough to help the sweeper work better. And as much as I hate most newer big box stores LTs, I watched 2 neighbors across the street just mow and chop their leaves into Oblivion with no other work needed.
Gonna have to see what I can do to transform either a cub 44c or 50c into a leaf eater or else one of my Ariens decks by next leaf season. During the mowing season I mow often enough that I can mow and blow and usually not have a Hayfield. But every mower I have tried chopping leaves with here so far over the years, has just plowed leaves. Which is useless.so far

I have yet to find anything that works better
than the old hand rake onto a tarp and drag the tarp over to where I burn them. But that takes too long and in recent years has only made me ache

 

[KennyP]

Yeah sounds like the dodges where they are programmed not to allow OD until the coolant reaches a certain temp.

And Kenny do yourself a favor and add another trans cooler to whatever is already there. I have rebuilt a few of those things, I usually add a mild shift kit to beef things up a bit. And the right fluid, though not cheap does make a difference. I get my ATF+4 from Walmart, over a bu

It has another cooler in front of the radiator. This truck has the optional tow package.

 

[TAHOE]

Didn't do anything over weekend, pretty much a bust for projects. Temps dropped down to....below what I want to work in
Wife's surgery went fine, thanks for thoughts. I left her at 9:30, they called me back to talk to doctors at 10:15. in her recovery room at 10:30. She had a sore hand, but at least she can bend her thumb again.

 

[chieffan]

Projects are done with for the year. Moved the work table and stuff around so the Mrs car can get in that stall of the garage. My truck goes where her car was and the wagon load of corn for the basement stove goes where my truck was. Her car is smaller and fits in that stall much better. Plenty of room for my quad between the door and back of the wagon so everything is still inside. Now comes the inside projects and more time for deer hunting.

 

[MFDAC]

The MF8E has lights! In the 25+ years I've had this tractor, the lights were for looks due to engine swaps. Since this is a snow blower engine, it has to be revved up some to brighten the lights but that's the only time I would use them anyway. I just used the snowblower wiring harness, but had to go from spade to ring terminals since the MF8E headlights didn't have spade connectors. Kills switch is hooked up and working too.

Also got the stickers made and installed to identify the switches and controls. The old tractor will be able to do some snow removal soon, just hope we don't need to! Next I'm going to see about wheel weights. I could use the ones from the MF12G, but I've got a bunch of iron barbell weights laying around here that may be able to be repurposed.

DAC

 

[Toomanytoys84]

I got the idea one time to speed up lawn sweeping at dads by using the 4 wheeler. Man did it speed things up. It threw the grass all the way over the basket in a rooster tail of grass clippings! It was useless but fun...

 

[TAHOE]

My son is into small landscape/lawn jobs. he bought himself a nice lightweight Stihl blower. Old dad took it on the roofs last night and cleaned the gutters, took 1/4 the time and never got my hands dirty, sure is the way to go.
He tried to mow with the Sears yesterday, it won't stay running for more than 5 mins. I've rebuild the fuel pump and replaced all line forward of the filter. I think line from tank to filter is collapsing....been putting it off since it's a major pain to get to, guess that maybe tonight's adventure if it's not super cold.

 

[Propane1]

Workin on the Ferguson tractor last few days. Hopefully start with in the next week or so.
Oh. Got the $100.00 ford snow thrower on the tractor also. Have been working on that for the last while too.

 

[KennyP]

What am I working on? Staying warm! It's cold out there! It'll warm back up some!

 

[MFDAC]

Going to see about building wheel weights out of some of the junk that's been laying around here for a couple of decades. Now the problem is that parts I ordered for the washing machine came in today so that may take my tractor time this week.

DAC

 

[olcowhand]

I'm about to start working on a pizza! LOL

 

[TAHOE]

Dug into the Sears last night. I removed the hose off the filter coming from gas tank and put end below tank, gas poured out. hose still needs replaced, but I'll wait till it warms up. So I then added a piece of hose on filter and put in bowl of gas, cranked it over...not pulling gas. Well poop, I just rebuilt that FP a couple weeks ago. Also checked vac pulse from engine plenty of suction. I had a plastic pulse pump on my ST16 project, figured I would check that, it was sucking gas from cup pretty quick so I installed it. Tractor ran, but filter is still not filling up like it used to. I wonder if I got one with too small of micron screen and it's limiting suction. Maybe I'll try to mow the snow and ice tonight to test it out
....and I spilt gas on my cell phone since I was using it as my flashlight. Washed the rubber cover multiple times, it's finally dissipating.

 

[Toomanytoys84]

I stopped using my phone flashlight when working in the garage after running over my phone with my truck..

Looked under the truck with the light. Set phone on top of tire. Drive truck forward and hear crunch....

 

[Hankg]

A little bit yesterday and a bunch more today I ran that cub 1200 all over the place, just pulling the sweeper. As done as I'm gonna be for harvesting leaves this year, other than 100 times of set the ladder, scoop as far as I can reach in the gutters, climb down, move ladder 3' and repeat. I see that this gear drive cub is alot faster in high gear with the throttle at idle than my S16H Ariens is with everything at full tilt. I have to check out the trans linkage on the Ariens as it is a slug compared to my other ones just like it.
If I don't give it He11 the sweeper don't work very well, gotta go fast with it or it don't throw over the leading edge of the basket. So it don't go into the basket, but just gets plugged and puts the leaves back on to the ground and builds up in front of the sweeper, the wheels bind up and I wind up dragging the sweeper and plowing a wall of leaves ahead of it. Give it He11 and it'll dang near throw leaves up and over the back of the sweeper. Don't fare well for getting close to objects when you gotta run the thing so fast. It needs to be geared different to be effective, slower ground speed and faster broom speed. This is an Agri fab 38" sweeper, the brush seems in great shape. I still have a fire in the gravel at the end of the driveway, it smoldered all night, when I started adding leaves to the pile today I didn't even have to relight it.
At one point yesterday I had the bed of my truck headed to as high as I could reach, I added that to the fire after dinner, and it went all night. I added another 15 to 20 sweeper loads of additional leaves to the fire today.
1st thing this morning I ran a self propelled push mower over the yard to try and chop the leaves up, it did about 1/2 of them, spit the rest out around the deck whole. But it was enough to help the sweeper work better. And as much as I hate most newer big box stores LTs, I watched 2 neighbors across the street just mow and chop their leaves into Oblivion with no other work needed.
Gonna have to see what I can do to transform either a cub 44c or 50c into a leaf eater or else one of my Ariens decks by next leaf season. During the mowing season I mow often enough that I can mow and blow and usually not have a Hayfield. But every mower I have tried chopping leaves with here so far over the years, has just plowed leaves. Which is useless.so far

I have yet to find anything that works better
than the old hand rake onto a tarp and drag the tarp over to where I burn them. But that takes too long and in recent years has only made me ache

Reluctantly, I just took down an oak in my yard because of the crap it spews the seed strings in spring, constant branches and twigs acorns gazillion leaves I'm done with it.

 

[KennyP]

I tried to take a nap this afternoon. Just got to sleep and the phone goes off. Then Steve slams the storm door several times, Gave up! Guess I'll be waking everyday at 2:30AM. Was hoping the nap would help with that!

 

[reedb66]

I had to do a full service on a John Deere X475 with all wheel steering,Also had to replace 1 of the joints in the rear steer,All I needed was the threaded end and then just unscrew and screw the new one in ,Adjust steering and done.But NO ,John deere doesnt offer just the end you have to buy the whole arm,A steering joint is $17.50 ,The whole arm is $79,I thought that was a rip.My cost thru john deere was $56 after my discount,Still sad that you cant just buy the joint but what ever.Customer was happy with the total bill for whole job $221 including labor,Oil and filter,Air filter must have gold in it though ,$37.50 including the foam prefilter.This guy actually got off cheap .He does NO maintenance on his equipment,Doesnt even check the oil because it wasnt even on the dipstick and what was in it was like tar.The space under the console where the radiator sits was full to the top with dirt and was actually growing some small weeds (seedlings) and the circuit board and fuzes were in this pile of dirt,Its a 600 hr machine and looks like 3,000 hrs.Poor thing!

 

[Propane1]

More work done to the Ferguson tractor. Repaired a hole in the exhaust manifold and put the head on. Before the head went on, I put the studs into the block , put the studs in the head for the rocker shaft. Used a file on some parts to level them out some. And other little things.
So. It might start Saturday. I’ll be at it tomorrow. Manifolds, alternator, carb, rad, fan, belt, wires, gas tank, throttle linkage, choke linkage. Put oil and anti freeze in. Battery. Exhaust pipe. Stuff to do.
So it might of might not be going Saturday. Goin to get some coal on Friday.

Noel.

 

[TAHOE]

Son tried the Sears yesterday, ran about 10 mins then started stalling again, this thing is starting to get on my nerves.
Had to haul water for animals last night before ice came in, also put window film over one of our wind leaky windows.

 

[Propane1]

Some done on the Ferguson tractor engine. Start soon. Valve cover just sitting on there. Have to set the valves. Hook up throttle linkage. Put the rad on. Then anti freeze.

Noel