Project: M&M's "military Mud Mowing Murray"

hay guys!

Been working on this one for awhile so lots of pics!!

First things first, the build as i saw it an exacusion. aka a list lol

clean rebuild an lock rear
relocate batter
remove all safty switches except clutch switch
gas peddle (of course)
"atv rack"
front bumper
tires!!
wheel hubs for easy atv rem mounting
paint
pully swap

and fix/alter problem points such as leaky gas tank, belt hitting frame ect, ect,

hope every one enjoys!!

Now for the pics!!!!

this is what i started with.
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starting silinoid, its about an inch from the top of the "hood"
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the pully is a 4" and the wite v off to the right keeps the belt from rubbing the shift rod
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New paint! and one of my fave' pics
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got my welder guy to make these up, TSC weld in 3/4 hubs an a thick chunk of flat steel
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the gold bolts u see in there are grade8's also from TSC
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yes, i made that with drill an right angle grinder... 2hours.
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Starting the "atv rack" hahaha
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And the finishing touch of the flat peices, rack done!!
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finally new front tires, thanks fealless!!
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This sweet little deer is the work of my unkle, we were talking about the murrey about 2 weeks ago now an he had me walk around to the back of his shed an bam there she was. he asked if I'd like to have it, of course i said YES. all i had to do was rebuild the carb an jump it. my 8 year old son has claimed it now an asks ever day to go romping.

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Thats it so fare guys, thanks for looking!!

This tractor is just bad ass , its a very clean build . I especially like your atv rack and exhaust. How does it sound ?

Very nice, good job.

craftsman dude wrote:

This tractor is just bad ass , its a very clean build . I especially like your atv rack and exhaust. How does it sound ?

thanks!!

It sounds sweet!, very similar to my Pops sportsman 400.

muddstir wrote:

Very nice, good job.

thank you! I've been watching that ifs/irs Allis you've got there, awesome.
please finish it soon so i can "steal" your ideas!! lol

O and what size are your tires?

craftsman dude wrote:

O and what size are your tires?

The rear tires are mud blaster 22x8.50x8 with a max run pressure of 5psi, perfect for subsituting suspension!
The frons are carlile snow hogs (ITP hole shots) just cheaper 18x6.5x8 streached on to the stock murray rear rims

keep the questins comming, i love to share!!

Awesome i have the same size tires, ive always wanted those tires for my tractor tho turf tires suck.

Trikahilux wrote:

muddstir wrote:

Very nice, good job.

thank you! I've been watching that ifs/irs Allis you've got there, awesome.
please finish it soon so i can "steal" your ideas!! lol

Im hoping to have it done this winter so I can enjoy it, but since july I've been on overtime at work then doing a kitchen and basement remodel at the house. So as you can tell, my days have been lacking tractor hours. But looking at your tractor and other peoples builds on here really gives me the itch to dig mine out and work on it.



All your tractor needs is a star on the side of it like the ones on the army jeeps.

Nice tractor - i have a pair of the same rear tires cept mine are 'wooley boogers' - got em for $20 for the pair at a flea market.

I thought of getting a set of those 'snowblower ' front tires for my wizard mod - ill be using 4 - 6" rims - theyd be good for turf running.

muddstir wrote:

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I Know right?? its in the plan, just been to lazy to make a stencil and i don't have a nice warm place to spray it then let it dry propperly.




yea, i got ya!! cerrently reconstructing my kitchen cabbenets to fit a much larger fridge... HAHA

dangeroustoys56 wrote:

Nice tractor - i have a pair of the same rear tires cept mine are 'wooley boogers' - got em for $20 for the pair at a flea market.

I thought of getting a set of those 'snowblower ' front tires for my wizard mod - ill be using 4 - 6" rims - theyd be good for turf running.

Thanks!

I tried to fing the "woolies" but happened appon these, there great imo. but i dont have any booggers. lol

Cool man, theres deff' good at tearing up the turf! just to be clear these are on an for 8" rims.

craftsman dude wrote:

Awesome i have the same size tires, ive always wanted those tires for my tractor tho turf tires suck.

I'm confused... you have the same size turf tire??

Yes turf tires S-U-C-K suck if its not dry out, the simplicity did fine hydro an all till I opened new trails thrue the creaks. thuse m&m was born. lol

Yeah mine are 8" rims also - a pair of 4 bolt hubs i bot years ago fit the wheels perfect along with the 1" axles on my GT. If they didnt fit, i have a bunch of other golf kart rims that wouldve fit reguardless. The GT has tall wheels already on the back stock - so them boogers should fit w/o modding the fenders.

I was shocked when i saw and asked the guy how much those wheels were - when he sed "$20 for both " I like nearly threw him the cash and almost grabbed the wheels and took off running - he got them for a project he never started - just wanted em gone.

Gotcha, yea i would have to, thats a heck of a deal!

i felt good about these being 80 for boath and rims


i totally just quoted you on the "mud murry" threat. haha

Yes my tractor has the same size tires as yours but they are turf tires, ive allways wanted some wooley boogers or ag tires.

Nice build. Looks really good.

Tractor Man Jeff wrote:

Nice build. Looks really good.

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Thanks! Been watching your build too. lol


first id like to thank you guys for all the positive feed back, its been a blast working on this thing!!

That said I have a small update today, and a question: any body have an idea how to wire up a Kohler. pro 17.5?? I assume its in the "command" family...

To answer any interest as to why im asking I popped the L-head B&S monday....

And some pics of course!

BS out!! engine deck all clean. Dont think its been this clean since sears show floor.
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sorry if you like them but im NOT a fan.
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What do y'all think, command pro??
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H'mm. What ya do to the Briggs? They're good engines when taken care of. Then again, I'm not having that much fun with my Briggs right now. Had to do an oil change because it flooded and filled the crankcase up with fuel.

Tractor Man Jeff wrote:

H'mm. What ya do to the Briggs? They're good engines when taken care of. Then again, I'm not having that much fun with my Briggs right now. Had to do an oil change because it flooded and filled the crankcase up with fuel.

Well.... the guy I got it from said he had just rebuilt it, but with all the other crap he "mist" while "fixing" it up I doubt it was actually rebuilt. along with the fact that it was leaking oil within a week of getting it home... witch I doubt would happen so quickly with new seals that come with all the rebuild kits I've looked at.

but honestly, it was probably my fault. my throttle cable was conected directly to the governor, an with my very limited knowledge of how one works I'm sure I over rev'ed it one to many times. oh well thou. I wanted a kohler for it any way and I'm sure I'll be using the doner craftsman chassis for a racer an the briggs will be rebuilt for that. it still runs, but the oil is full of those nasty little silver flakes...



p.s. that sucks, hope you cot it before it wiped any thing!!! And the stock turfs look fine on the front of your rig, at least i like it lol. maybe some "snow hogs" tires if you don't run across some other atv style hubs in the near future.

Gotcha. Yeah. Did a quick oil change lats night. I hope to find some better wheels eventually.

Whats up guy??

I got the kohler all wired up, mounted and running!!

This is how the silinoid looked b4 i pulled it out, its now clean an mounted up high were it should be safe...
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Got the head lights wired up too, used the craftsman plug so I can remove them if needed. The best part about the new wiring is that it provideds full 12v and its switched at the key! (red arowes)
the exhoust is going to exit out the other side of the tractor now, good imo because theres a deck leave on the other side that made it run to close to the tire for my comfort.
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Heres the new switch, the red wire ends are for a volt meter witch I found out completes the power circuit. its cool I wanted to use it any way.
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Got the switches removed, every thing "loomed" up an tucked out of the way. Those are the elec' switches, still need to be mounted...
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Nice BIG oil filder, nice BIG fuel filter... and I'm hopping I can just hook the foot/throttle cable to this existing bracketry.
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Every thing fit pretty well!! only thing i had to do was trim a hair off of the air filter mount, remove a small unused bracket and tune it up.
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Thats all for now! any questions I can answer, I'd be happy to. hope y'all enjoy!!

hope you like the kholer i had one never really reved right but never blew up

greener179 wrote:

hope you like the kholer i had one never really reved right but never blew up

so far I love them, theres one on my son's tractor, an one on the simplicity. we've had that one since i was like 10 years old, been beating on it mowing with it an of course romp'd on it. She still runs like a top!! so I sure I'll ejoy this one too. the oiling system is a huge plus imo plus it much quieter with more HP.

ya mine ran at a probley 5000 rpms but never quit on me

I have that exact motor on a lt 1000 that i actually use for mowing great motor .