Ready for Winter

[Bob McCarty]

With as little movement as there is, I don't think you'll have any problem. You could always insert a washer on either side if it seemed to bind there.

Bob

[TomE]

If there's an award for the best hood cut out, you would get it. Very neat and a big help with the distributor.

[ricky racer]

If there's an award for the best hood cut out, you would get it. Very neat and a big help with the distributor.

I was just looking at the last picture Randy posted and thinking the same thing. Very nicely done.

[Scrivet]

My English to Sanskrit translater must be enabled again because to me, this......

Randy, There should have been a bushing/spacer where the bolt goes through. It should extend out either side a little so that when the bolt is tightened the lift arm is still free to pivot up and down. Your repair returned it to the original design.

Bob

Sounds exactly like this...........

On the lift arm, the one with the bolt through the bolster, there should be a bushing that is free. It sounds like you welded your new bushing to the lift arm. The bushing should be a hair longer than the width of the lift arm and the bushing gets clamped solid by the bolt. The lift arm pivots on this bushing. Pivoting on the bushing keeps the lift arm from loosening the bolt as you raise and lower the blade...........

[Bob McCarty]

Scrivet, I guess I skipped over your post and just read the last couple. Or great minds think alike?

Bob

[Randy Tuura]

If there's an award for the best hood cut out, you would get it. Very neat and a big help with the distributor.

Thank you. That was a Previous Owner's trick. In order to do it that well I think you have to drill the holes for the hinges and then make the cutout. So then when you put them back on it is really easy to get things lined up. I wonder, would it be a good idea to make big ones and make the hood open like a Model A Ford car?

That is the one thing I disliked about it when I first got it. I never have lifted the door to see what's under there - that's how good she's been running these past four or five years once I put a newly rebuilt carb on her.

[pickerandsinger]

You may want to consider adding the 2 links at the end of the lift arm where it attaches to the plow…I does help absorb shock should you "plow" into something…You would want to use the lower hole though to retain your height, actually I bored another below the bottom hole to allow for more height on mine….Nice looking Job and Cub…. …Also I built a nice driveway using crusher run with mine mounted in the front position….

Its called a flexible clevis not a double link , mounts on the lift arm to the wishbone plow bracket….Its clearer in the manual….Or follow the black to the plow…LOL...

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[Randy Tuura]

I've seen the flexible clevis advertised and recommended but I don't quite understand. The lift arm is pressing down, the clevis is pulling down and you hit something it bangs upward... I can't visualize it absorbing any shock. I guess I'll just have to get one and use it. I thought it was just something to rob vertical height when it lifts.

[Winfield Dave]

I guess I'll just have to get one and use it.

Randy....Don't waste your money.

[PoconoCub]

I've seen the flexible clevis advertised and recommended but I don't quite understand. The lift arm is pressing down, the clevis is pulling down and you hit something it bangs upward... I can't visualize it absorbing any shock. I guess I'll just have to get one and use it. I thought it was just something to rob vertical height when it lifts.

I do not use one Randy, I do not see the purpose. If you really want one and you are good with metal working you can make your own.

[Scrivet]

The flexible clevis allows the blade some up and down movement at the expense of down pressure. From Rudi's Implement manuals; Drawing of flexible clevis mounted and "Note" (bottom right corner) about it's use.http://www.cleancomputes.com/Cub/Cub%20Implement%20Manuals/Cub-54%20Leveling%20and%20Grader%20Blade%206-7-53/Page%2008.jpg

[pickerandsinger]

I guess I'll just have to get one and use it.

Randy....Don't waste your money.

Just tossing out the options he may want to "consider"….I did hit a large root out by the barn and it lifted the plow enough to ride over it without digging in…whether it would have anyway, well I didn't try it without it…. …

[Randy Tuura]

Thanks everybody anyway. I don't think I'll need that flexible clevis after all. My yard is more like a suburban one and the chance of hitting anything unexpected is pretty remote.

[Barnyard]

the chance of hitting anything unexpected is pretty remote.

That's what John Puckett thought too.

[Bob McCarty]

Randy, If you change your mind, there is a drawing in "Rudi's Manuals" under implement sketches.

Bob