Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:46 pm
Massive photo dump alert! got a front tree pusher on , rear bar so i can lift the mower out of mud holes, and all the front work ( yes i do need to adjust my top link )
AllisKidD21 Moderator
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:51 pm
Looks good biggas! I like the front push bar, should be able to do some damage with that, haha. Do you notice a difference with the lower joints being mounted horizontally?
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:53 pm
yeah , a little . not very drastic but once i take it on a romp and beat around on it i am guessing it will handle the abuse better than it did before. i want to put mesh on the push bar then put lights on it after i add some top steel.
muckmudd Vice Grip
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:15 am
Nice, Ive come to the stage on my front end where I need traction bars. Where did you get all those heim joints???
biggasmowers Prybar
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Nice, Ive come to the stage on my front end where I need traction bars. Where did you get all those heim joints???
They are ball joints off of Chinese quads, i am going to put heim joints on it because the joints have some play in them that heim joints wouldn't have.
biggasmowers Prybar
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Took it out on a romp with the camera on my new mount, did pretty good up until i headed home and down shifted hard and i think i broke a shifter key. its still out in the woods.
Camera mount. looks ugly, but once i tighten up the rear bolts that came loose it will be less shakey.
Red Green would be proud of this one. Didnt have any bugee cords so i use the next best thing.
Got extremely stuck. took forever to get ' er out.
Crazy_Carl BoogerWeld
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My goodness! That's quite the disaster, that really sucks. Got any plans for a heavier duty transaxle? Like an 820?? Haha
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Yeah if i ca get my hands on one, might just find a spicer to throw in it and just live with a junky trans axle or find another mst or 930 and not down shift so hard. I Almost died by going under a tree that fell over the creek to fast and slammed it into a low gear to stop from decapitating myself and thats when all hell broke loose apparently.
Crazy_Carl BoogerWeld
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It was cool , just broken. i only rode it for like 1 min after i down shifted hard, then it gave up the ghost, er gears , when i started going up hill. Probably wouldn't have broke it if there wouldn't have been a tractor pulling into the field i was mudding in at the time. I kinda scrambled outta there and went the back way home through the creek.
RichieRichOverdrive DimeWeld
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Wow man, that's pretty chowdered! My MST didn't have much oil in it when I got it, when I started working on it again I checked her and there was just a little bit in the bottom of the case. Put the 2 pints or so of 75w-90 i had in her and she quieted down a good bit.
biggasmowers Prybar
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Age : 20 Join date : 2016-12-30 Posts : 1943 Forum Rep : 69 Location : Kansas
Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:52 am
Yeah i need to move it out a bit more so it doesnt get covered so easily . It took me forever to get out of the mud hole.
biggasmowers Prybar
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:13 am
Washed it cause it was shedding mud all over the garage . i really need to get a tranny for this one, then i can start working on the craftsmans front end suspension
Double W Cross Ranch DimeWeld
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:35 am
Yeah, it'll be nice seeing it running again.
AllisKidD21 Moderator
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:48 am
What are you doing for suspension on the other one? IFS or solid axle?
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:37 am
I dont know yet, most likey a solid axle because of the axle i have n it right now is pretty beefy and i like my wheel hubs with the high speed bearings.
biggasmowers Prybar
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:41 pm
Well heres the tranny thats going into this thing. Its a mst 930 , case and bull gear, shifter, and drive gear are 930, the rest is mst 205 parts and gear clusters. Its all together now and rtv is curing
Double W Cross Ranch DimeWeld
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Subject: Re: 2003 heavily modified Murray Off-road tractor Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:18 pm