Archive through January 14, 2010

[jmuncie]

Charlie,

Don't the later tags say "Cub Cadet Corporation"? There's no "Corporation" on my 1282. Someone explained to me once that there was an intermediate company formed or an intermediate owner before Cub Cadet Corporation and that mine was from that era. That person may have been wrong, I may have misunderstood, or maybe I'm misremembering.

My 1282 also says "INTERNATIONAL" on the same hood decal that says 1282. Not sure if that's unusual or what the significance of it is. Maybe IH had the 1282 in the works before the sale.

Jerry

 

[aaytay]

Lonnie-
I'm sure nobody will be surprised by this, but........I disagree...

The Original gets an "exception" (in my mind at least) because although it uses a belt in it's drive-system, the belt isn't part of the clutching mechanism like all of the other tractors <FONT COLOR="ff0000">I</FONT><FONT COLOR="000000">H</FONT> (and JD) built. Rather, the belt is used to transfer power from the engine on one plane, to the clutch/driveshaft which is on another plane. I know of no other "belt drive" GT with this type of set up.

It's very easy to adjust the belt tension on an Original so that the first thing to "give" under heavy load is the clutch rather than the belt.

That's MY story, and I'm stickin' to it!

 

[aaytay]

Jerry-
You've got the facts, but they're just jumbled a bit...

Cub Cadet Corporation in Cleveland, OH was the "intermediate" set up you mention. The later "Cub Cadet" version moved to Brownville, TN and lost the "Corporation" designation.

 

[mbounds]

Jerry M: Please post the number data from your 1282 ID Tag... IIRC, that Brownsville, TN tag was only installed for the very early units and I believe only for part of 1982. All later units had the Cleveland OH (CCC Hq, co-located with MTD). MY 782D (introduced in 1984) has Cleveland, OH, on the tag.

The numerical data will help clear this up...

Myron B

 

[kmcconaughey]

I edited the list once again.

 

[kphill]

Earl, The lower ring is a oil wiper ring. They have a totally different purpose. It has nothing to do with compression and it can have a slightly larger gap and it is probably better that it does. They keep the compression rings from floating in excess oil. Too tight a gap on that thin oil ring and they break very easily.

 

[dtanner]

Kendell Ide

I agree with you on the proper way to check ring end gap. place the ring in the bore and use the piston with no rings on it to push the ring down to cylinder center and that should get the ring square so the ring gap can be measured. There no other way to do it correctly. My mc I rebuilt had a .05 skirt clearance and that was how I did the rings .and to add to that I bought the special file for filing the end gap on the rings. later Don T

 

[pbell]

Cub Cadet Corporation (CCC)was incorporated June 1, 1981, as a wholly owned subsidiary of MTD, and with that incorporation became the owner of the IH Cub Cadet line, and moved everything including tools, dies, parts and stock, to Brownsville, TN. Production in Brownsville was scheduled to begin in Aug 81, but the first Brownsville built unit was a yellow and white 482 late in 1981. Production really didn't get started until 1982, but most of the 82 sales were of left over tractors that had been built by IH, and some of those were repainted in the yellow and white color. The data plates on the early CCC built tractors say Cub Cadet, Brownsville, TN. That was later changed to Cub Cadet, Cleveland, OH. I don't believe any of them said Cub Cadet Corp., but I may be wrong. CCC headquarters is in Cleveland, but they were built in Brownsville, TN. It was announced last year that the Brownsville plant was to be closed.

CCC continued to build the red 82 series tractors that were sold by IH ag dealers until the end of the IH ag products in 1985. These tractors had a International Cub Cadet decal on the hood, and had a data plate that said Cub Cadet, Brownsville or Cleveland, depending on when it was built. There were also yellow and white versions of the 82 series tractors built during the same time that were badged as CCC or Cub Cadet, although the model numbers may have been different.

So there was not an intermediate company, just IH then CCC.

 

[jott]

Ryan W should be helping with this. Where is that guy?

 

[jott]

Id like to own one of ever NF cub but mnost of them are hard to find around here. Hopefully the 72-125 and 73-147 sets. Since i have a 100 i might as well get a 70.