Archive through September 29, 2008

[bbrigham]

Charlie...now ya need one of these to pull it with.

My first poster for the Cub Cave came in last week.

 

[jrfowler]

I'm a newbie and I've inherited a 1967 122. I'd like to get a snowthrower or a plow for this tractor. Which ones fit? Are any later ones interchangable? Model numbers? Thanks for any input. Rick.

 

[aaytay]

Richard-
Welcome to the forum..

I'll toss some info into the hat, maybe others can correct/contribute where necessary.

Your 122 is considered a "narrow frame" Cub Cadet.

If you're looking for a front mounted snow blade, (you said "plow", but I assume you meant snow blade) then you just need to find someone who has a blade with an "early style narrow frame subframe" on it.

As for snowthrowers, I believe a CC-36 and/or a CW-36 should work. That said, you'll probably want to think about adding a "creeper gearbox" to your tractor if it doesn't already have one as a standard C.C. transmission can go too fast for deep snow removal.

One point I need to make about this is something I am unclear about myself...

I thought I remember hearing that some of the very late 1X2 series tractors came "standard" with the Quick-Attach ("QA") hooks on the front of the frame. <font size="-2">(Anyone care to comment here..??)</font> If yours is one of those, you would need a somewhat different blade subframe and could use a QA36/42 or QA36/42A snowthrower.

 

[ccarney]

Art -

I'll jump in on the QA hooks. I've got 214xxx here, a 123, and its just like any other 1x2/3 or 70/100 for that matter. That's not right at the cutoff (218009?) but just information.

I do beleive a QA36/42 will still bolt to an earlier tractor as the holes are there. The same 214xxx 123 came with a QA42.

I would be curious to see a 1x2/3 with obvious factory-QA pegs, and the wire quick bail.

 

[bcarl]

The QA36/42 and QA36A/42A throwers are listed as attachments for the 122, so they must fit. I believe if you remove the QA bracket from the thrower the holes where the QA bracket attached to the thrower will lne up on the tractor frame. There is also a CC-42 thrower listed, although I have never seen one.

I prefer the 42 inch throwers over the 36. The wider path keeps the rear wheels out of the deep snow when making turns.

 

[tmarkle]

You don't have to remove anything from the thrower. The QA brackets go on in the same place as they would on a QA tractor, but they need to be bolted on with two bolts on each side. The brackets have the bolt holes in them so they can be put on the older tractors.

 

[rchristensen]

Brad Chalk

I have undercoated my decks on all my mower decks for years. I use the spray on truck bed liner. It has worked good for me, I do live in Arizona where it is dry most of the time. I get a lot of wear from the sand picked up from the grass so I touch them up in the spring.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Attaching a QA36/QA42 snowthrower to a 1x2/3 series Cub Cadet.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Last night I was going to install the engine into K4K but when I lifted it off of the workbench I noticed that there was an oily rust spot under it. I bought this rebuilt/repainted K161 several years ago. The bottom of the engine had never been painted. Oh well, I wiped it down good to get as much of the oil off then with a clean rag I wiped it down good with lacquer thinner, then primed it and painted it. This morning I had taken off from work to cut more firewood, after I finished cutting and stacking I decided I should take a few minutes and install the engine into K4K.

The paint job on this K161 is terrible.

After I make sure it will start and run OK I may have to repaint it, next summer of course.... Or, I could just use it and let it get all oily from the breather like my #2 125.

Mike G., here's a couple more photos of the lift bar for the rear lift.

 

[dfrisk]

KRAIG - Making great progress on K4K! I think that nasty paint job was standard from the factory on that K161.

 

[dsacksteder]

kraig: lets see this stack of firewood we keep hearing about....

 

[kmcconaughey]

Dustin, it's all slabwood so it takes a while to make a big pile. I'll have to take some recent photos. This wood shelter is full, the garage wood pile is full and I've started on a separate pile behind the shelter. FWIW, the shelter is ~16' long 4' deep and 8' tall at the front.

Denny, it's been repainted, poorly. For instance the Delco plate on the S/G has been painted over.

 

[klejeune]

Kraig,

If by Sunday night I don't read about you starting and driving K4K around the yard....
I'm gonna have a fit!

Really, I wish I could make time to cut some wood, let alone refinish a Cub Cadet right now.

Looks like fun,
Keith

 

[jbliler]

Gee keith, if you want to cut wood come on out. you can try out the new saw.

 

[sstanton]

Hey guys a simple question! Would any other models hoods work on my 106? I wanted to restore mine but the hood is a little rough around the bolt hole on the left side and my grandad welded a big ole chunk galvanized steel on it and although it will never ever ever break there again I wanted to see if something else would work, to make my search a tad easier.

 

[digger]

Scott S.
I just checked the Parts Lookup Button above and found that that hood also fits a 107,126,127,147.

 

[bbowman]

Hello All;... a friend of mine decided to let his 128 lose a balance grenade and now has a ventilated ,running K301! Anybody had any luck repairing a damaged block? A know-it-all at work said there was a weld repair for cast iron, but it's news to me. Any takers?

 

[aaytay]

Here's a new one for me....

Does anybody know why the parts lists show two different mufflers for the 100's?

I was standing in the garage tonight working on a welding project for work and thought my brain was messing with me as I glanced back and forth between the two 100's I have sitting there.

Was it a certain serial number break at which the mufflers changed?

 

[junderwood]

Art,

I hope one of the experts know for sure, but that second (1x2) muffler shows up in my 10/65 printing of TC-113 which includes the 1x2 series. It shows up as individual parts and as a kit. I wonder if it was offered as a quieter option once the 1x2 series came out. I thought I had an earlier parts book with only the 70/100 in it but I can't find it. So I can't confirm that it did not exist in those earlier books.

 

[blanasa]

Finally got the trailer project almost done!

Garden is almost done too.

Steel frame with recycled aluminum sign stock for sides and deck. Used off-brand lawn tractor wheels. Dumps too.
Will come in handy for leaf and firewood season.