Doubletrouble

The only "green" in that deal is money lining some ones pocket. Not ours for sure.

FINALLY! someone else that believes this to be true. Not the only one!

Sorry for the breakup and sorry to hear your having trouble as well diesel future. I am on my second marriage myself but have been blessed this time around. Good luck fellas, I wish you both well. Prayers......

Bent linkage maybe? Odd that it will engage one way but not the other. I had a '95 chevy that did that to, found that something had hit the linkage and bent it just enough to not fully engage in 4HI but 4low worked fine. Fixed that, went out to cut firewood 2 hours later and shattered a CV joint in front. Those days are over, solid axle in front with the dodge!

I'll have to go in there and figure out how it works as well. I looked at it before the server upgrades and it confused me a little. Maybe it's better now. We'll see.

I'm curious @Dieselfuture, what are the small gauges and switches for? The ones I'm the ash tray spot and under the back up cam display.

Be leary and educated on whatever repairs the shop suggests. If they know you are travelling and stranded you are at their mercy. Not all shops but some will take advantage of standard travelers. Hopefully it will turn out as a bad cable or battery, easy fix. Please keep us posted on how things turn out for you. Best of luck.

I would pursue the above advise and maybe, since the truck is in the shop already have the leaking valve cover seal replaced. How old are the batteries? Have they been load tested recently? Check all the heavy gauge cables, battery and starter cable as well. Sounds to me like something is shorting out bad.

Are there different filtration ratings among the different BHAF out there? (Not sure if they do a micron rating or something else) Just curious.

Prayers and rest in piece. Sorry for your loss mike.

I agree, it's gonna be awesome. Love the old fat fender trucks. Such style and beautiful lines.

Ok, kinda stuck on the belt routing. Thinking about loosing the two small pulleys on the blower frame and mounting a fixed idler and a tension pulley near the bottom of the mount frame I made. It's where the belt would be redirected from vertical to horizontal. I was originally going to use the oem tensioner but I think it's just to compact there to tension it plus the belt will be twisting to align with the driven pulley on the blower. Any thoughts? This is a crude drawing but something like this. I could put the tensioner on an arm with a spring to keep the belt tight. That way from the side the belt would be in an "L" shape and run straight on both vertical and horizontal planes and have enough room to for the 1/4 twist to realign for the pulleys.

Might not be returning to work tonight. Weather is taking a bad turn here. We got 1-2" of snow on the ground over night. Tonight they're forecasting another 6-10" here and 10-14" east of us. Which is were we commonly go. After being off for 3 months I'm not sure I feel comfortable going in on a night like that. Loading the vehicles can be precarious as it is then add in a bunch of snow/ice and it get down right dangerous not to mention having to cover 200-300 miles in those conditions. Might have to call off my first night back. UGH

I believe that clutch setup came with the woods belly mower arrangement. Might be a Kubota piece, not sure. It does look similar to an a/c compressor clutch though. I'm just hoping once I get the fan work done that the belt will follow the rout of the pulleys ok. The belt will have to go from the clutch down to an idler then turn horizontal to the tensioner but also twist to match the horizontal blower pulley in a short distance. Then same thing in reverse coming off the blower pulley on the way back to the clutch. We will see. If it does work I think this should be a useful attachment and bigger, more powerful than the one I use now.

Today the wife an I had some running to do so not alot of garage time today but I did get the lift part somewhat figured out. I will refine things and make improvements as I go. I'm sure I will run into an issue at some point and have to modify something. Like now, the lift rod is a bit to close to the tire. When turned all the way in either direction it will contact the rod. Loaded some pics for ya, and a short video if I can get it to load. Tried to load the video of it lifting but the video is to large. Sorry.

I'll be returning to work Monday night. Been off since November 22nd. It's been a while. I'm both looking forward to it but at the same time I'm not. It doesn't help that we are expecting snow that day and into Tuesday. I drive a car hauler semi, we have to load and unload those vehicles ourselves. I'll need to clear the decks of snow on the truck, clear windshields of snow and so on just to load them. Been doing this for almost 2 years now, I don't mind the job. Actually like it in nice weather. The winter is when I sort of dread it. But on the bright side, not much more winter weather to go for this year. Hopefully in another month we will be on the upswing of temps and things will be easier. This is the truck I drive... 7 brand new Jeep Gladiators on this load.

I have run into what @Tractorman described as power steering stall while backing in a camper a time or two. Most notable time was while backing in a 5th wheel for my son. It was a bit of a tight spot so a few pull up corrections were needed to get it where he wanted it since it was going to be a permanent site for them. While releasing the clutch and trying to cut the wheel I would seem to loose the power assist. Outside of a situation like that I don't normally have any issues with it.

Yeah, doesn't sound like it was flashed correctly to trigger the high idle.

It's been pretty mild here as well up until the past couple weeks. It hasn't been above 32° in two weeks. What snow has fallen is still on the ground. This all started because I was bored. Lol My son brought this blower over here with intentions of selling it. He had it posted for a while with no interest, I was outside one day and got to looking at it and thought I could make it work on my tractor. Turned into a project to keep me busy for a bit. End result if it works out well will be I will sell my wheel horse tractor. It's a good little tractor with a 32" snowblower and a 36" mower deck. Which would be fine for a smaller yard. We have about 3 acres we mow. The wife has her rider also. So I'm thinking I can thin things out a bit. One more machine I won't have to maintain. Been trying to get rid of things the past year to clean things up and minimize some what. It take alot if time and money to maintain so much machinery.

Got the mounting brackets welded up today. My weld aren't pretty but they'll hold. Have to figure out the pulley placement next time I'm out there. Scavenged a couple of idler pulleys from some old wheel horse parts I have. No pics today but I'll get some tomorrow.

Right, you only throw full beers to people you like. Lol

I hope they're empties!

They're saying we may get another 1-3 inches on Saturday. Got about an inch yesterday to. Be glad when spring gets here

So I was in the garage today, bored. Had a 44" John Deere snow blower sitting around for a while. (Long story) and decided to see if I could adapt it somehow to my Kubota B5100 lawn tractor. Tractor has a vertical PTO pulley and clutch up front and the blower has a horizontal belt drive so didn't see why this couldn't happen. I began to fab up a mount on the tractor to connect the quick connect hitch for the blower. So far so good. Have to fab a couple mounts for the idler pulleys to transition from horizontal to vertical to drive the blower. Then work out the lift system using the 3 point in the rear for now. Once I have the brackets and such mocked up and welded I'll clean them up some. The pics below are just rough mock ups right now. I think it'll work though. Just thought I'd share. And yes,.I know. The garage is a crazy mess.

I figured it would smoke some without a tuner. The extra boost with the elbow should help some with that I believe.