"Dinky" (Crafstman 917.254650)

Do you have 20s in the rear now?

mowerjunkie03 wrote:

Do you have 20s in the rear now?

i dont know, the tires came with the tractor so i have not paid much attention. i remeber looking and not finding aggs bigger for my rim size. i;e have to double check if i remeber when i get off work.

20x10-8

nice rear rack!
Y not mounting the grill itself on the rear so U could store stuff safely in there without losing it when U romp over roots & other stuff?

SebastianAlbrecht wrote:

nice rear rack!
Y not mounting the grill itself on the rear so U could store stuff safely in there without losing it when U romp over roots & other stuff?

the grill is cast iron making it both brittle and i cant weld to it, and it had a broken out glass window do deal with on top of not being that wide. i chucked the grill out.

RockeyDA wrote:

SebastianAlbrecht wrote:

nice rear rack!
Y not mounting the grill itself on the rear so U could store stuff safely in there without losing it when U romp over roots & other stuff?

the grill is cast iron making it both brittle and i cant weld to it, and it had a broken out glass window do deal with on top of not being that wide. i chucked the grill out.

thought it was just stamped steel. yeah such a heavy cast iron brick in the back is pretty useless on a mower...

while spending time laying in bed today i figured out how im going to make dinkys wheels stick to the axle even if my welds have penetration issues.
kinda similar to fords front axle fix



the green things are large washers
so like before i plan on having a mechanical connection that the welds are more to help hold in place, but not actually do the work

I hope this will hold up!

im really good at breaking dinky. im low on funds so i just shoved a bunch of nickes in the gap and welded it back up.

i would like to add i was getting the jerking i get when my trans is loose(it was) but it wasnt only problem. my welds failed on 1 wheel and part of the axle snapped. but thoes washers i welded in were keeping the wheel on and from rotating arround the shaft more than a few deg. so i put my welder on 2 high and set that wire speed all the way up to 7. i never used it that high. but it looks like it had better penatration that way. wire is expensive so i never set speed above 6.

dangit! Hope its holding up now!

nothing crazy, just a night ride threw my town.

something crazy. and again i did not know my camera was in 240p

update: dinky has lost 2 trans bolts, and riped up the frame a bit were a bolt monts. my wleded on rims makes it super hard to get to bolts.... and i used stop nuts.

the rear bumper with a chair crushon makes a good rear seat, but if you are to hard on cluch bumper scraps the ground when you take off.

and i tried swapping my agg to my bent up wheel barrel rim with inner tube. i destroyed it getting it on. so i cut a hole in the inner tube removing the vavle stem, put in a tubeless stem, and are JB wleding the hell out of the bead till it works then tire slime.. im 2 1/3 tubes deep right now.

going from a bumper to a super bumper





going from not a rack, to a rack!

Have your buddy stand on the back of that and do some mad wheelies

RichieRichOverdrive wrote:

Have your buddy stand on the back of that and do some mad wheelies

kinda have by accident, having a friend sit on my bumper with legs on fenders, i have made my pumper scrap taking off from a red light.

That's what friends are for. Wheelies are no fun without em

Pretty cool night video! I was expecting you to snag a rock or something in those weeds.

mr.modified wrote:

Pretty cool night video! I was expecting you to snag a rock or something in those weeds.

if dinky were on stock wheels theres one that would have been a dead stop wreck. theres a big rock in that grass i scrape my front axle on.

cool & rocksolid bumper!
if U have more box steel U could reinforce Dinky Frame as well to get rid of all that trans twisting n stuff when U clurtch dump!

SebastianAlbrecht wrote:

cool & rocksolid bumper!
if U have more box steel U could reinforce Dinky Frame as well to get rid of all that trans twisting n stuff when U clurtch dump!

naw, the frame twist aint a big problem, the trans mounts breaking are. and i need to reenfoce them... if only i could get wheels off easily... but i cant.

Trans mounts break pretty generally because of frame twist.

RockeyDA wrote:

SebastianAlbrecht wrote:

cool & rocksolid bumper!
if U have more box steel U could reinforce Dinky Frame as well to get rid of all that trans twisting n stuff when U clurtch dump!

naw, the frame twist aint a big problem, the trans mounts breaking are. and i need to reenfoce them... if only i could get wheels off easily... but i cant.

then buy some 3/4" hubs with 4 bolt pattern & matching rims & put them AGs on the new rims & scrap the welded rims & mount the Hubs on the Trans, even if U weld the hubs on U can easily access the mounts

dinky has new rims already, i just need to buy tires for it and a new axle. with i cant afford. so how im i going to afford new rims, new hubs, and new tires, and a new axle?

RockeyDA wrote:

dinky has new rims already, i just need to buy tires for it and a new axle. with i cant afford. so how im i going to afford new rims, new hubs, and new tires, and a new axle?

yeah sounds like im just too stupid for building anything. Nobody has too much cash & I dont have it as well!