Just read your Fanatic post in that LED thread white, your going to give that boy a all thumbs complex lol. Well crap, I got my laughs in today for sure , thanks guys lol.

 

LMAO...some of the stuff he doesn't get. And this dude thinks he's going to build a motor, lol. A modular motor at that....

 

I plowed about 8" of snow last Wednesday, so I'm glad I got the Grizz up to snuff early. (Of course, it's not that common, but we've had white stuff in September and as late as early June in years past )

 

I've seen guys who actually are pretty good, spare no expense and get something not quite right. Hell, the reman co's aren't the greatest as well. He's still a kid, some have to learn the hard way. What will happen, he'll tear it apart, become overwhelmed and the rest will never happen.

 

And then he'll sell it on Facebook saying it ran when he pulled it and show a video from when he first bought the truck

 

I have to rebuild the steering and swap the wheel bushing assembly's for sealed bearing assembly's before hand. The used bearing assembly's in the next size up tractors, but not in mine. The blower is heavy, wears the bushings out, tears up the steering. It's there, the Deere only has about 120 hours on it now. Needs a lot of maintenance and parts aren't cheap. I attempted the cheap parts route, belts, pulleys and such, that hasn't worked out well. Pretty much have to go with John Deere stuff. It's fun in the snow with that little thing, they made this model 1 year, to corner that part of the market in HP. The engine has the power of tractors almost twice it's size, doesn't have the torque the diesels do, but man can it throw some snow lol. I've moved snow with many machines in my time, from a 5 horse briggs to Cat 14H and M graders, 966 loaders, to dual engine 627 scrapers at work, so we could work lol, but haven't run machines with big blowers. Weren't as common back then....so , sort of get a faint tickle when we get a big snowfall, make the rounds and hope nothing breaks lol.

I'm sure I said all this before...you guys most likley already know I like my little tractor..

 

I learned from watching/helping my old man work on cars. My Dad was mostly a brakes/water pump/oil change kind of guy. In 6th grade I met me Buddy, and his Dad was in to building hot rods (still is), and I used to go over there and marvel at his work. He was a stock motor build kind of guy... maybe a little cam, but not much more. The rest I know with motors is all self taught.... lots of reading and study. The transmission stuff.... I had done some stuff with my 6th grade Buddy. We did 3 AOD to T5 swaps together, then I helped another Buddy do one too. But that's nothing really internal. Learning what does what I have learned, as you all know, from my transmission Buddy. Fixin' on learning a lot more real quick, lol.

EDIT: Kind of went off on a tangent there.... my point WAS, that I actually paid attention and learned from it. I didn't ask questions and then go ask someone else the same thing. He makes very little attempt at retaining the info. I used to write stuff down even.... oh well. I guess my way is a lost art, lol.

 

She made it back home. Rust fixed now onto the staying running problem!

 

Glad you made it back OK. Looks like you could've moved the truck back on the trailer a little bit and eased up on your tongue weight a little?
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Yeah it was a bit further forward than the first trip up and more than i would've liked. I didn't notice till I took that pic on the side of the road and it was too late then. I was at an incline st his house while loading so I thought it was just how it was sitting. I should've checked before I got too far but got side tracked. I just took it a little easier and slower. I had about an inch and a half from the rear bump stops