l just cant help myself
, l am laid up with a back injury and find myself with nothing to do but sit in front of the computer, ebay is such a bad thing, l think l have looked at just about everypage in the last 3 days, been very tempted on many things but ressisted, well almost ressisted
l could do with a new mower up the field to keep on top of the buggy track the one l have is made by ransomes and is a bigish out front type with a kubota 3 cylinder diesel engine, but just about everything about it requires a rebiuld and l was thinking about either a major rebiuld over the winter months or biuld one from scratch since l like biulding things,
l was thinking about starting with a suzuki sj rolling chassis and having an under slung cutting deck ( which l have ) in the middle beneath the transfer box, but what l hadent worked out was how to get the drive to the cutting deck or even how to power it, propshaft drive or belt drive or hydraulic from an engine driven pump ?
anyway all thats in the past now as l found this and won it
some of you might know l already have a body for one of these
but the body is just that a body shell with no chassis, the red one is complete except for the electric motor and batteries that used to power it, and it was cheap cheap.
the shell is made from fiberglass and sits on a box section steel chassis and has a live/beam alxe at the back
l am thinking of removing the propshaft that goes to the rear axle and leaving the rest of the back end alone so as the axle is undriven,
and then fitting a front wheel drive engine and box in the front to provide the power, the whole front end un clips and there is nothing there to get in the way of the engine so nice and easy there and l could do all this with the body of just working on the rolling chassis
one option is a subaru justy engine and box l just happen to have as a spare for my buggy
now this has the normal driveshaft outputs to drive the front wheels but also it has an output facing the rear normally for the back axle, but in this case l was thinking of using it to drive the cutting deck, l can connect and disconnect the drive to the deck with the 4wd button on the gearstick, my only concern is whether 80hp is enough to drive the cutters and the mower, l know from using ny diesel one that tall grass sucks up the power and tries to stall the mower, l supose l should sharpen the cutting blades and give the mower a chance really
the subaru engine is petrol which is abit of a shame as diesel would have been much better as l could have run it on untaxed red diesel, l can get a front wheel drive diesel engine and auto box out of a citroen car, the auto would be a plus point as l like autos but l would loose the drive to the cutting deck, the drive into the cutting deck is via a horizontal propshaft, l supose l could turn the deck round so as the prop enters from the rear and have another engine in the back just driving the deck ?
l am open to suggestions here ( polite ones anyway
) on how to arrange the drive train
nuts or what
Andy
