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| olcowhand |
Posted - 01/11/2011 : 17:47:17
When time allows, I will be taking my "parts" JBI Bush Hog tractor & planting a Kubota D1005 3 cylinder diesel into it. This will be a long drawn out project, but hoping to get it driveable during summertime. I just bought a 2 ton asphalt crack sealing machine & drove 250 miles to bring it home. Was a bit of a gamble, but at $336 purchase price and another $150 for the trip, it's not a real financial gamble as the steel alone will bring nearly $400 in scrap price. The gamble was driving so far for the engine, not knowing if it was repairable. Seller claimed he put a battery in & turned it over & sounded fine, but it would only turn 3/4 round & hit solid. Not a metal to metal sound...more like ice in a cylinder. He also claimed exhaust was covered all the time. Over an hour of heat gun running on the block & she finally melted out. After just 1/2 a days work, the engine runs like a dream! Only 1299hrs on the Hobbs meter, so nothing for a diesel. Idles at 45psi hot. Not sure why, but the water pump was off, so cut a new gasket, installed, & put the radiator back on, & she's ready to go.
Here's a short video clip of the Kubota engine running.
http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a31/olcowhand_in_ky/Kubota%20Diesel/?action=view¤t=MOV00227.mp4
Here's the rough JBI it will go into. I plan to put in a Massey rear end & hydro so I will have a 2 speed rear end. LOTS of mods coming to this tractor. The parts are just stacked on, not in proper positions.
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| olcowhand |
Posted - 07/23/2011 : 20:23:43
Not gotten to the painting yet. Been really too hot to paint as it tends to orange peel from drying so fast, even with proper temp reducers. This has been a tough year for me to get anything completed. |
| simplelife |
Posted - 07/23/2011 : 20:17:40
Just saw the video, missed it somehow earlier. Towards the end it reminded me of the earlier days of drag racing when the push vehicle followed the car down the track. You can see the jump pack in the chase vehicle and just brought back that strange memory.
Awesome sounding tractor and the way it spreads the dirt at high speed it is almost a tilled finish.  |
| ByronC |
Posted - 07/23/2011 : 17:17:29
Daniel,
This topic must have been one I missed. I just love the video. Geeezzzzz Dan, you could throw dirt across two furrow's if you wanted to..
Did you ever get to painting it up fancy like???..
If so.... Pics!Pics!Pics!Pics! :) |
| Cvans |
Posted - 07/21/2011 : 22:52:32
I have to agree with the lathe. That did speed things up.
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| olcowhand |
Posted - 07/21/2011 : 16:47:53
The only hard to get tool I used was my lathe to build the driveshaft/flywheel adapter, and the plasma cutter. I could have done without the plasma cutter & either used a torch or a cut-off wheel. All the rest was common tools, time, planning (head scratching),and lots of patience. |
| Cvans |
Posted - 07/21/2011 : 16:36:40
It is fun and it is surprising how little it takes if you just focus on one step at a time. Having the tooling and welding experience helps but that is part of the fun. The next thing you know it's time to smell the diesel. |
| Ezra |
Posted - 07/21/2011 : 15:14:07
WOW you guys are having alot of fun with this stuff. I wish i had the equipment to do some of the stuff you guys are doing. |
| B10Dave |
Posted - 04/10/2011 : 22:45:29
That looked like so much fun you could use it for stress relief therapy. Works good Daniel. Can't wait to see it finished and painted. Dave. |
| superbinder |
Posted - 04/10/2011 : 22:33:24
Nice plowing.How about a shot of the 2 bottom plow. thanks |
| Cvans |
Posted - 04/10/2011 : 22:28:28
That is just nuts Daniel. I don't think I have ever seen a plow throw dirt like that. You give that tractor throttle
with the plow down and the tractor doesn't even know it's back there. Great job! |
| acb10_64 |
Posted - 04/10/2011 : 21:59:46
Thanks for the pics and video! Man that thing zings right along! Nice work! |
| olcowhand |
Posted - 04/10/2011 : 15:46:47
Oh, also forgot to tell about the Georgetown, Ky plow day....my original hydro gave out 20 minutes in. The charge pump quit on me. So I just watched everyone else plow, but still had a good time. The NOS hydro & differential now reside in the tractor! |
| olcowhand |
Posted - 04/10/2011 : 15:43:44
Oh yeah, I hadn't showed the fenders I made from 1/8" sheet metal! Since I took these pics, I added seat rails welded direct to the fenders, that you can see in the video.
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| olcowhand |
Posted - 04/10/2011 : 15:40:58
Getting the JB Diesel "Boss Hog" ready for Vevay, Indiana plow day on the 16th. The NOS hydro & differential seem fine, but wanted to test her out. So took to the field with the 2 bottom double 10" plow. It pulled mighty hard in our tough soils, but mainly because this is a single speed differential & gearing is just too high for a seriously hard pull. So I dropped the one plow & went single 10"......and it'll walk the dog! I just leave it full speed at the hydro & adjust speed with the throttle. What I need now is a single 12" plow. I also shot some primer on her to make it not as redneck for plow day. Here's a video starting with the 2-bottom, then me with the single, then my BIL Fred on the last of the video. Fred likes to video his fingers! LOL At least his nails are clean!
Watch Fred (look for the green hat) in the last of the video when he opens the throttle. This beast doesn't know a 10" plow is even back there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox4E98IJaSc |
| olcowhand |
Posted - 03/14/2011 : 08:48:28
I thought about using large brake line, but going low-buck and I have the hoses already. When I pull her apart to do painting (a year or more possibly), I think I'll lay in some tubing then, as she goes back together. Right now things are overcrowded, but with apart, it would be easy to route the steel line.
The engine is rated 22 1/2hp continuous, 27hp intermittent. Heading to "The Parker Store" for my fittings in a few minutes. |
