Not So Good Modifications

[BobRip]

How about a desecription of your not so good modifications. Things you made and then took off, or wish you took off. My trench cleaner may be in that category. It fills with dirt and then you have to pull the dirt out by hand. I can't find the picture.

 

[Piedmont3]

I don't know if this qualifies or not, but I modified my drivers side front wheel motor last weekend while trying to fix a hole in our crushed asphault road. I modified it from working fine. . to leaking oil like a sieve when sitting or like a small garden hose when running.

 

[BobRip]

This qualifies because it is a mod that you wish you could undo.

 

[MossRoad]

Well, heck! If we're talking about those kinds of modifications I've got a few!

 

[ClintBlake]

Well, heck! If we're talking about those kinds of modifications I've got a few!

We're listening - I mean whatching. We promise not to laugh.

 

[Highridge]

Welding chains on the back of my brushcutter. The ones closest to the middle got chopped off by the balde. I've since put on rubber mudflaps - much better.

 

[BobRip]

Well, heck! If we're talking about those kinds of modifications I've got a few!

Let's now limit this to intentional modifications.

 

[J_J]

I don't know if this qualifies or not, but I modified my drivers side front wheel motor last weekend while trying to fix a hole in our crushed asphault road. I modified it from working fine. . to leaking oil like a sieve when sitting or like a small garden hose when running.

I do believe that you have over stressed the shaft seal on that wheel motor. Some one else put a shaft seal on their wheel motor. I don't think it was to difficult to repair. Keep every thing clean if you do the work your self.

 

[Piedmont3]

J_J,
Thanks for the info.
I took it off the trasctor and took it to a local hydro shop an they said it needed an entire seal kit and a new set of bearings and a couple other things. ($368.00 worth) I only have 79.6 hours on my machine. 65 of those hours are mowing...So I sent the motor back to PT and told them I only had 80 hours on it and they fixed it and are sending it back to me for about $90 plus shipping. I have just had to do without my tractor for almost 3 weeks now.

Sorry for the thread hijack.

My only intentional modification is trying to add a 12v cigarette type power outlet so I can use the magnetic work lights I made for my pickup. I have never gotten the power outlet to work correctly on the PT. The lights won't come on at all. They work great when plugged into the cigarette lighter on my truck.

 

[J_J]

J_J,
Thanks for the info.
I took it off the trasctor and took it to a local hydro shop an they said it needed an entire seal kit and a new set of bearings and a couple other things. ($368.00 worth) I only have 79.6 hours on my machine. 65 of those hours are mowing...So I sent the motor back to PT and told them I only had 80 hours on it and they fixed it and are sending it back to me for about $90 plus shipping. I have just had to do without my tractor for almost 3 weeks now.

Sorry for the thread hijack.

My only intentional modification is trying to add a 12v cigarette type power outlet so I can use the magnetic work lights I made for my pickup. I have never gotten the power outlet to work correctly on the PT. The lights won't come on at all. They work great when plugged into the cigarette lighter on my truck.

On the 12v power outlet, hook it to the battery to make sure that it still works. Then check and see if you have a good ground where you want to mount the outlet. Install it and check it out. If it still doesn't work, reverse search your wiring.

 

[BobRip]

I don't know if this qualifies or not, but I modified my drivers side front wheel motor last weekend while trying to fix a hole in our crushed asphault road. I modified it from working fine. . to leaking oil like a sieve when sitting or like a small garden hose when running.

So that others do not repeat this modification, how was it performed?

 

[Piedmont3]

Bob_Rip,
I was on the road using the minihoe to break up one of the large potholes.(about 2.5' or 3' diameter, 8" or 10" deep) and I was backing around in a circle to get a different angle on it. Moving as fast as I could, because I had to be ready to leave in about 45 minutes for my daughters tumbling practice. I changed my mind and started to turn the wheel the other way and dropped that wheel of the side of the road the wheel bottomed out in the ditch, and bounced pretty good. I wormed my way back onto the road and noticed a very dark spot on the edge of the road. I looked down and saw the wheel motor spraying oil onto the wheel hard enough to splash onto the lights. I Put my foot down and headed to the shop.(about 400 or 500 yds) I made it with only about half of my oil in the hydro tank. I turned the engine off and it slowed down dramatically. I undid the hydro lines on the motor and moved the ends above the level of the oil in the tank and it stopped. I had to go back with the pickup to get the small rock bucket and the the shovel and rake I had taken with me. We were about 5 minutes late to practice.

Really it was my fault because I got in a hurry and wasn't being as careful as I should have been.

 

[BobRip]

I know others must have put on some not so good modifications. Let's hear about them.

 

[MossRoad]

Really, I haven't done anything to mine that didn't work well... the spinner knob on the steering wheel, the fire extinguisher, the extra lights under the ROPS and the tow hook on the front. Maybe I can mung up the parking brake when I get around to testing that mod.

 

[MuncyBob]

I did put a leather steering wheel cover on, but it wouldn't stay tied up so off it came!

 

[BobRip]

Really, I haven't done anything to mine that didn't work well... the spinner knob on the steering wheel, the fire extinguisher, the extra lights under the ROPS and the tow hook on the front. Maybe I can mung up the parking brake when I get around to testing that mod.

We know you can fail if you try hard enough.