Archive through March 04, 2014

[danderson]

Charlie- Owner says it was bored and a bushing was installed. Work was done by a machine shop. Would boring it remove too much metal?

 

[danderson]

My May 1977 1250 has auto valves, iron rear, internal brakes and aluminum front. Another thing on the weights, the 77 1650 weighed 50 lbs. more than the 1450 and in 78 they weighed the same. Maybe the 77 1650's had iron fronts and the 1450's had aluminum.That would be odd though.

 

[digger]

Doug A.
If they welded the bushing in place, I would say it's fine. Personally I wouldn't trust a bore and pressing a bushing in to it, but that's just me.
In a word, that means I don't have a clue!

 

[dfrisk]

HARRY - The switch to the main diff housing from cast iron to diecast aluminum was on the 82-series, post sale to MTD IIRC.

On actual CC tractor weight, you have to be careful to make sure you compare "apples to apples". IH advertised an "Operating weight" with full fuel, typically a mower deck, PLUS 175# operator. That, plus sometimes the Marketing dept. just plain got things confused on promotional brochures. I have a spec sheet on my 982 that says the frt tires are 18-8.50X10's, and they're actually 18-8.50X 8's

What actually surprises me more than weight differences between '77 & '78 is the jump in prices. So much for the cost reduction program of switching from in-house made cast iron parts to purchased die castings!

 

[vthomley]

I'm liking all this Quiet Line talk. I really like the Quiet lines, why, well lets just say my wife mowed with my 1650 last fall and she liked it. First time ever she said she liked a Cub Cadet! It will have a new seat just for her this summer, I'll get myself a new seat on the 1250 too. Here it is sitting next to my 1250.

 

[cstaehly]

Hey folks, just put my rebuilt PTO on my cub 149 disengaged it and everything seemed to work as it should, fired her up and when I disengaged it it shredded the wear button, at a loss for what could be wrong....

 

[hydroharry]

Dennis - ya those price increases are like 10%, but I suppose that was also the inflation era. I still just can't see that much weight difference in the 1650.

Vincent T - that's a nice pair there. Nice to know your wife has good taste as well. Make sure you tell her what is headlined in that Sales Brochure posted below by Brian A where it states "the world's finest Cub Cadet" (That is of course a 1650 in the pic)

Christian S - did you check the gap between the button and the PTO after you installed the PTO? Can you post any pics of how it's set up?

(under edit) - Hey Keith O - why does you tag line say Quiet Line tractors are not quiet?

 

[kostendorf]

On that chart some how the top line got cut off. The two column's of numbers after the price is trade in value. Seems they really didn't want them back to sell used.

 

[jbaker]

The second page of Brians post shows IH called it the Quite Line.
Also both of my cub books refer to them as the Quite Line.

 

[cstaehly]

I got the Pto rebuilt from somebody so I didn't have the tool to check gap but it looked right, would that cause this? I can upload pics later when I get home from work..