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- May 27, 2006
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- Missouri
- Tractor
- Kubota M9540, Ford 3910FWD, Ford 555A, JD2210
My neighbor gave me a pair of John Deere rear wheel weights. 140 pounders. For the price I decided I could take the time to convert them to fit my M9540. Well, I don't have the equipment necessary to redrill the weights so I had to cobble up some brackets. Took a lot of head scratching because I'm not mathematically inclined.
My centers are cast iron and have a set of 4 holes and a set of 3 holes. The JD weights only had 3 hole mounts but they were wayyyyy off in dimensions from mine. I took 4 5/8x6" crs thread bolts and cut the heads off. Inserted them in my 4 hole pattern. Then using 2"x1/4" angle iron I built a square that fit around the outside of my four bolts. Centered it in my cast wheels and welded the bolts to the angle square. Then I removed the square and laid it on the back of one of the weights. Got it centered with one of the three weight holes lining up to go thru my angle iron. The other two were outside the angle iron about 1.5". Built tabs to those holes and welded them to my angle square, then drilled three 5/8" holes. Stuck bolts in those three holes so they would be pointing outward when the square was bolted to the wheel and welded them in place.
First attempt at mounting was with the angle bracket bolted to the tractor, then try to lift the weight onto the 3 bolts coming out of my bracket. That didn't work so well. So I took the bracket off the tractor wheel and bolted it to the weight. Then lifted that assembly into place and fastened it to the tractor wheel with 4 nuts/washers from the back side.
Turned out pretty good. Hope I never have to remove them. Including brackets and hardware, gained 148lbs on each wheel. I would have never paid $1 per lb to gain that much. Shucks I don't have that much invested in my 1500lbs of tire fluid. But the price was right so I went for it. Gave me a shop project on a couple crappy weather days.
In the first picture you can see four little blue pieces of tape, that's marking the four holes I used in the tractor wheel.
My centers are cast iron and have a set of 4 holes and a set of 3 holes. The JD weights only had 3 hole mounts but they were wayyyyy off in dimensions from mine. I took 4 5/8x6" crs thread bolts and cut the heads off. Inserted them in my 4 hole pattern. Then using 2"x1/4" angle iron I built a square that fit around the outside of my four bolts. Centered it in my cast wheels and welded the bolts to the angle square. Then I removed the square and laid it on the back of one of the weights. Got it centered with one of the three weight holes lining up to go thru my angle iron. The other two were outside the angle iron about 1.5". Built tabs to those holes and welded them to my angle square, then drilled three 5/8" holes. Stuck bolts in those three holes so they would be pointing outward when the square was bolted to the wheel and welded them in place.
First attempt at mounting was with the angle bracket bolted to the tractor, then try to lift the weight onto the 3 bolts coming out of my bracket. That didn't work so well. So I took the bracket off the tractor wheel and bolted it to the weight. Then lifted that assembly into place and fastened it to the tractor wheel with 4 nuts/washers from the back side.
Turned out pretty good. Hope I never have to remove them. Including brackets and hardware, gained 148lbs on each wheel. I would have never paid $1 per lb to gain that much. Shucks I don't have that much invested in my 1500lbs of tire fluid. But the price was right so I went for it. Gave me a shop project on a couple crappy weather days.
In the first picture you can see four little blue pieces of tape, that's marking the four holes I used in the tractor wheel.
