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    Clutch repair on the 73

    MIKE - I was told by a VERY reliable source that MWSC has a healthy supply of throw-out bearings made by IH's OEM supplier, That was a few years ago but it's worth a phone call. I used to drive by MWSC's shops about once a month until just over a year ago, but always in a hurry, no time to...
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    I'm ready for the SNOWpocalipse!!

    My snow removal equipment is a "Fleet of ONE", The FARMALL Super H and loader mounted blade cleared things back in 2007/2008, with 101.4 inches total snowfall. I pushed up piles over ten feet tall. I've back-dragged blown in snow 3-4 feet deep snow I walked on top of like it was concrete. It...
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    Reliability and capability questions

    BRAD - The support for the blade are two 1/4" thk steel plates, one about 8-9 inches square, lower one the blade is welded on is 8-9"round. They pivot on a 1" bolt about 6 inches long, The top plate has four little pieces of angle iron bolted onto the plate with short 1/2" bolts attaching the...
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    Reliability and capability questions

    AARON - I'M slightly biased towards slightly newer Cub Cadets, the models 70,71,72,73, and larger. I've helped build several RC tracks, I made a 40 inch wide angling belly mount grader blade that can really move some dirt, made from a piece of replacable cutting edge from a real road grader...
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    Trac Vac ideas or pictures for an Original Cub Cadet 1961 year?

    GARY - I made two little stands to set the front of the blower unit on when unhooked from the tractor. I can move it around some to line up the holes for the pins. I can stick my floor jack under it and raise it to line things up too. The blower drive was changed after those pictures were...
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    Looking for some guidance on a (782 based) Cub Cadet Post Hole Digger

    SON and I built the back yard fence for one of my Wife's friends. We set 15 posts using one of those two-man post hole diggers. I was absolutely SHOCKED when she carried her Dad manual post hole digger out of her garage to clean up the first hole. Unless your going to build much more...
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    Trac Vac ideas or pictures for an Original Cub Cadet 1961 year?

    I built a Trac-Vac clone mostly from scratch. I used my cheap dump cart, 32" wide by 36" high by 42" long, rear door flips up to unload. The unloading the cart was the thing that needed improvement the most, I ended up digging it out with a pitch fork. I bought about $150 worth of steel, I...
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    Home build aerator

    MIKE - Depending on how much area your seeding I've always had the best luck with broadcast seeders. I completely cleared out old trees & bushes on two sides of our house, moved over 15,000# of dirt one afternoon, pulled the concrete base for a BIG TV satalite dish out of the ground, not as...
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    Home build aerator

    KRAIG - Once again, THANK-YOU for being keeper of the photos. One comment I should add, my spikes are 1/2" round steel bar. And I have several trees with exposed roots, I've tried to be careful but I have bent one spike on the center wheel, it's bent about 60-70 degrees. Think I can...
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    Home build wheel weights

    ROBERT - SON & I got hooked on RC back about 1990, gas off-road 2wd truck first, then bought a used 4wd buggy, then did the constant upgrades on a weekly basis either buying or building upgrades, We ended up with an Associated Electronics RC-10 GT 2wd gas truck with WAY more hop-ups than the...
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    Fuel cap issues

    BILL - The cork used to make gaskets is decayed tree bark, it's brittle, it will crumble between your finger tips if you flex it too much. If your cork replacement gasket starts deteriorating, it will end up in your gas tank. Nothing good results from that. VITON normally is used for seals...
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    Home build aerator

    I had a lawn service that sprayed my yard 3-4 times one summer "PLUG AREATE" my yard one day in the fall. It looked like every dog in the county, mostly BIG dogs, had run loose in my yard and took a dump. I decided there had to be a better way! I started gathering steel,, 1" round bar 44"...
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    Several Midwest shows this weekend...

    My Tractor Show buddy and I went to the Geneseo show 6-7 years ago. REALLY nice grounds. It's actually a working show, there's corn to pick and soybeans to combine, then everybody plows some. My Cousin was actually one of the founding members of that club. But my Cousin lives about a mile out...
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    Cub Super w/ 60" mower

    REDDOUG - Did you find a buyer for your 982? I'm considering advertising my 982 which is optioned exactly the same as your was/is. Just curious how much you got for it. We basically live in the same market, I'm on the east edge of Madison.
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    What'll I do now!

    MIKE - Would probably help US help YOU if you tell US what all you worked on and had apart. If you didn't mess with the reduction gears, didn't have the stamped steel cover off the reduction housing all must be well in there. IF you forgot to install one of the two roll pins into the...
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    JD 214 ?

    I'd steer WAY clear of the 200 series gear drive Deeres. Belt tightener for a clutch, and that Veriator is Deere's answer to a migrain headache The 300 series Hydro's are an O-K tractor, Not sure where Deere bought their wire harnesses back in the 1970's, '80's, and '90's, I know for a fact...
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    In the market for a good DA

    I bought a corded DeWalt about 2 years ago. I really didn't want to run my 7-1/2 hp air compressor when 3 amps will do. Variable speed 6" pad, both pressure stick adhesive and velco. I bought it to sand some rust off the steel walk-thru door on my shop, 36x80 inches. Half hour and the door was...
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    OE Tires

    The most common tires were turf tires, and every Cub Cadet I've seen was Good Year brand. There were other brands, I had a 129 with B.F. Goodrich Silvertown turf tires that were not original to the tractor, they were 23-10.50x12's, original tires were 23-8.50x12's. The BFG's were weathered...
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    Look what followed me home: a K321A replacement engine...NOS?

    Summer of '81 Dad had a really tired 10 hp in a 104 as his mowing tractor. I called someone at IH Louisville involved with Cub Cadets and got the name and phone number of Kohler's salesman that called on IH. Think he quoted around $200 for a new complete engine minus muffler, pto clutch & S-G...
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    Engine oil

    SCOTT - I called Shell's ANSWER MAN for oil questions a couple times just to ask how much ZDDP Rotella had. He said all the different viscosities had some, but depended on it's rating, but the 15W-40 I used in my 7.3L was 1400 PPM. Guy I talked to one time said the straight weights, 30W, 40W...
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