Rearview mirror for my B2650

[rkidd]

I have been wanting a rear view mirror for my tractor. Looking at what most people did, the most common place to mount one on a rops machine if the front loader frame, which is a good place except when you take the loader off, you loose your mirror. I use mine quiet a bit with out it mowing and things. I had researched and found alot of people used golf cart mirrors which is really I thought a good size, and found one that mounts to a 1" square tube. Finally got time to get serious, and looking the tractor over, the one place I found was to mount a 1" square tube to the main support for the floor pan. I had to make a notch in the floor pan to be able to get the new 1" tube bolted flat to the floor support. I drilled 2- 1/4" holes thru the 1" square tube and thru the floor support to anchor it. My only concern for all of this to work, with a long tube sticking up, and a mirror attached to it, was if there would be to much engine vibration to see clearly out of the mirror. As I got more into the fab project, I felt my chances were 50-50 to work. I had 36" of 1" tube,cut long, then cut to correct height, then clamped on the mirror on. I fired up the tractor and took it out to try. To my amazement, it worked perfect. Better then I ever thought. My tractor idles at 1050 rpm, and there was a touch of vibration in the mirror. At 1200 rpm it totally cleared up, and stayed like that all the way to 2500 rpm. I took it down the road in medium and high range, at all rpms and was clear as could be. Success!! I ended up with 31" of tube. When I got back to take the tube off and weld a cap on and paint it up, I noticed some flex in the floor support when I grabbed on to the mirror tube. Looking at the end of the floor support, it is a square tube also, but over by the hood there is a notch in it for the plastic guard under the hood. The top is gone and half of the sides. There is a factory 3/8" hole in it, so I took a 3/8" nut and welded over the hole, then ran a 3/8 bolt in and put pressure on both sides to stiffen that part up, and locked it down with a lock nut. That took 90% of the flex out, and I am now really happy with the install. The mirror is really perfect size and folds back to you if it gets hit or you want to fold it back out of the way.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Nice clean looking install with a clever mounting scheme!

I tried something similar on my old L3010 but couldn't get rid of the mirror vibration problem. The B2650 must run a lot smoother than my old L. Eventually, I followed the lead of others here and mounted Jeep Wrangler mirrors to the loader supports on either side. I was concerned at first about losing the mirrors when the loader was off but realized I almost never remove it. I just drop the SSQA bucket when mowing. It's a whole lot easier than removing the entire loader. Without the bucket, the loader frame has only a minor affect on maneuverability or visibility.



Anyway, Nice job on your project! It's a more functional design if you frequently remove the loader.

 

[Dan33Klein]

Looks great Ron. I might have to look into that myself

 

[rkidd]

Nice clean looking install with a clever mounting scheme!

I tried something similar on my old L3010 but couldn't get rid of the mirror vibration problem. The B2650 must run a lot smoother than my old L. Eventually, I followed the lead of others here and mounted Jeep Wrangler mirrors to the loader supports on either side. I was concerned at first about losing the mirrors when the loader was off but realized I almost never remove it. I just drop the SSQA bucket when mowing. It's a whole lot easier than removing the entire loader. Without the bucket, the loader frame has only a minor affect on maneuverability or visibility.

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Anyway, Nice job on your project! It's a more functional design if you frequently remove the loader.

Great job on the mirrors! Nice looking set up.

 

[rkidd]

Looks great Ron. I might have to look into that myself

Thanks Dan. It worked out really well.

 

[George the Beagle]

I think I might be tempted to mount it on the other side, because when I'm mowing I usually trim up close to stuff on the left side as the side discharge is on the right. Limbs, etc., less likely to latch onto the mirror if it's on the right. Nice design!

 

[skipperbrown]

Nice work!

 

[rkidd]

I think I might be tempted to mount it on the other side, because when I'm mowing I usually trim up close to stuff on the left side as the side discharge is on the right. Limbs, etc., less likely to latch onto the mirror if it's on the right. Nice design!

I thought about that, but on the B2650 the fuel fill is on the right side, and this set up would have been in the way.

 

[flingwing1969]

Very nice solution for you. Rearview mirrors are very useful, as is a rear camera - especially since I broke my neck's C2 and I'm not supposed to do heavy head rotations. I have the same mirrors that you have but they will be mounted on my new FOPS a-pillars that will be welded to the top of my FEL's subframe's tower - that remains on my tractor when the FEL is removed.

 

[Coyote machine]

FWIW, here are the inexpensive side mirrors I use on my UTV. no vibration issues, and they have various diameter brackets to fit different diameter poles- call them with the diameter to get the right model #.
Seizmik Universal UTV Mirror | MotoSport