-
This community needs YOUR help today!
With the ever-increasing fees of maintaining our vibrant community (servers, software, domains, email), we need help.
We need more Supporting Members today.Please invest back into this community to help spread our love and knowledge of all aspects of IH Cub Cadet and other garden tractors.
Why Join?
- Exclusive Access: Gain entry to private forums.
- Special Perks: Enjoy enhanced account features that enrich your experience, including the ability to disable ads.
- Free Gifts: Sign up annually and receive exclusive IH Cub Cadet Tractor Forum decals directly to your door!
This is your chance to make a difference. Become a Supporting Member today:
Archive through December 20, 2011
- Thread starter kmcconaughey
- Start date
Help Support IH Cub Cadet Forum:
thenrie
Well-known member
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2009
- Messages
- 58
- displayname
- Tony Henrie
Just made a hitch for my 682, so I can use the ball hitch the PO installed and also tow my garden trailer that has a pin hitch. The ball hitch bolts to a reinforced Cub stock hitch plate and has an upward bend to accommodate normal trailer height. I added a 2" wide strap of 3/16" steel sandwiched between the ball hitch holder and the stock hitch plate, so it's at normal garden trailer height and sticks out about an inch farther than the ball hitch. Now that it's done, I wish I had used 1/4" steel, but it will do for this winter. If it bends I can always replace it with a heavier one.
Also just loaded my Carlisle Super Lugs with windshield washer fluid. Thanks to this site I knew how to do it. It's tough breaking the bead without a bead-breaker, though. Ended up using two tire tools, a block of wood, and a big hammer. Took some effort, but didn't take long. After loading the tires, I see why so many folks install lugs on their rears, though. That's a future upgrade for my 682 and my 1650.
Forgot to take pics. Maybe tomorrow.
Also just loaded my Carlisle Super Lugs with windshield washer fluid. Thanks to this site I knew how to do it. It's tough breaking the bead without a bead-breaker, though. Ended up using two tire tools, a block of wood, and a big hammer. Took some effort, but didn't take long. After loading the tires, I see why so many folks install lugs on their rears, though. That's a future upgrade for my 682 and my 1650.
Forgot to take pics. Maybe tomorrow.
Dave,
I misread your clarification post.
Apparently there is an additional adapter package used to fit the QA-42A on a narrow frame. Maybe it addresses this issue.
I thought someone who actually knows would chime in.
I think I would get a piece of pipe (1"?) and cut two bushings and install them on that lower shaft. But what do I know! As you mentioned, drilling the shaft and installing cotter pins (with or without washers) might work. But, the set up for narrow frames puts more bending forces in that shaft and drilling a hole removes metal from right where the maximum stress develops. The shaft might be over-sized enough to work, but I would stick with bushings. That's just me.
I misread your clarification post.
Apparently there is an additional adapter package used to fit the QA-42A on a narrow frame. Maybe it addresses this issue.
I thought someone who actually knows would chime in.
I think I would get a piece of pipe (1"?) and cut two bushings and install them on that lower shaft. But what do I know! As you mentioned, drilling the shaft and installing cotter pins (with or without washers) might work. But, the set up for narrow frames puts more bending forces in that shaft and drilling a hole removes metal from right where the maximum stress develops. The shaft might be over-sized enough to work, but I would stick with bushings. That's just me.
Ken, I looked at the manual, in illustration 15 it shows being put on a narrow frame. In that picture the blower is slid all the way to the left (sitting on the tractor). I can see advantages to that with a lot of wieght on that side and only one bushing to lose.
I was on the parts look-up and didn't find it, does anyone know whats in that adapter kit?
I was on the parts look-up and didn't find it, does anyone know whats in that adapter kit?
Dave, Ken, the photos in the QA36A/QA42A manual that show the 1x4/5 series Cub Cadet (Illustrations# 14A, 14B and 15) are just retouched photos from the QA36/QA42 Manual. Don't put much faith in them for adapting the QA36A/QA42A to fit a narrow frame... I just recently acquired a QA42A to add to my collection of QA42 snowthrowers. I've not yet done any detailed comparisons though. I think I know what you are referring to with the side to side movement of the auger housing where it mounts to the gearbox mount/sub frame.
Right after I posted that I recalled a series of photos I have, forget who I got them from though... In any case here's the photo that shows a QA42A set up for a NF and the required spacers:
kphill
Well-known member
John, I used Velspar IH White in the spray cans..Bought it at TSC..It covered really well and was very good paint..It is the same as Plastikote. Velspar makes that too..I used the spray cans but if it was not this time of year, I would have used a spray gun..It matches the Cub Cadet paint on the 169 pretty good..
