1969 Sears Suburban 12 "Putt Putt'

Here are your pics! @Brianator
Not sure if its a homemade one or if its MTD built.
I showed the welds so idk if that would show if its a factory one or not.




Sorry my Samsung phone doesn't take very good pics in low light... lol

Score! Looks factory to me but possibly repaired. A 3 point is always a nice addition to a tractor! My friend leaves his on his Suburban offroader and uses the handle for stabalization on rough terrian.

Made this today! My 3 point arm always rubbed and rattled so I made this!


Its old rubber hose off of some machinery that I slight and slid it on and zip tied on each side and boom!

Also belt is all adjusted and she's pretty "Dialed." Just tighten her up and bango Putt Putt is 100% Work ready again! She even has a kill wire! No more removing the sparkplug wire and getting nailed in the hand with all of HH120 coil volts of fury!

Trail photos!
Putt Putt can be seen social distancing in this photo!


I don't know how to link to other threads but there is a photo and update, in my "Project Scraptor" thread Aswell withe "Gt6000 M.U.T.T"

I'll PM you how to add links to not clog up your thread.

Thanks @Brianator
This is a test!
Project Scraptor

Edit-
It worked!
Here is one for M.U.T.T
Craftsman Gt6000 M.U.T.T

You can use the same method to add links in your signature via your profile so you know!

*If this shouldn't be here please tell me!*
So I have been needing to rebuild Putt Putt's firewood trailer for some time now as the whole axle mount broke off, so I rolled it into the shop.


It a Agri-Fab ATV trailer with a 1 inch axle and a pretty robust tongue and balloon tires which are great for the snow!

The problem all began when my wheel bearings locked up and broke my mounts as it must have happened when I was driving. There are pretty bent up and one is cracked. Because of this the back of the bed is not secured to anything so that needs to be fixed as well. So I took the bed off and marked the center of the axle.


After thinking about it for a while and looking for a solution I found some U-bolts and bent them to be tighter round the axle and drilled holes in my tongue where the OG mount was to mount the axle that way.



This actually worked great! It held the axle very tight and sturdy. I also used some ThreadLocker so it dont come loose.


Now onto the dumping bed side of things. After seeing that the mounds on the body where still good enough to use I ended up using 2 large eye bolts to hold it down yet let it rotate.



This also worked good!


Now that that trailer is done I have another one to work on!
This is my little dump cart. I use this mostly in the summer for chores and things so not to hurt the plastic bed of the wood trailer. I do want to convert it into kinda an offroad/mowverlanding trailer to haul when on rides.
It needs:
New tires. The old ones are plastic wheels but the bearings have blown out on the one side and the plastic ones are real noisy. I want the new tirs to be quite a bit taller as well.
The Dump mechanism needs to be freed up. It kinda stuck right now.
Need to remake the gate of the trailer as well.
Grease up axle when changing tires.
Need to convert to 2 inch ball. Have the stuff to do it just need to get er done.



Haven't worked on this trailer yet I had to work on my 1987 Dodge Dakota.



Sorry for the absolute photo dump and random truck pics.
If this needs to be moved, please do!

[adm]I see no issue mentioning stuff in a post maybe two, but if you want to get more extensive, a new topic is best.

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@MightyRaze Alrighty will do at most I will just post a pic of the trailer when done and my Dakota will prob never see the light of day again on the forum.

I'm not as picky as admins past.  
The Dakota is fine.  Some members like to talk cars too.

Should you want to talk more about the Dakota, feel free to start a thread over at:
https://www.atltf.com/f5-off-topic

There is even a casual Daily Driver topic in there you can post,
https://www.atltf.com/t5313-daily-driver

If you would like to go more in-depth with the trailer, feel free to write up a topic on it too! We love accessories as well.
https://www.atltf.com/f93-trailers

We love talking about lots of stuff!

Nothing to really update, nothing has been done as I haven't had time to do anything on my projects but Putt Putt is a simple and rulable ol' gal. I wanted some of your thoughts on a few of my ideas.
I would like to rebuild my throttle pedal as the bike handle one is a simply to uncomfortable to me as I have big feet. Anyone have cool ideas? I know where to get like a motorcycle rear brake pedal i think would be cool to work off of but I want something wider that fits my whole foot.
I also would like to make an independent brake pedal so I can have some engine braking and engine braking at the same time. This I think that would be beneficial for towing my heavy firewood loads in the winter. Was wondering how I would go about this, I have the pedal from Project T-Rex that I pulled for this purpose.
Also I need to fix a high idle issue but that is not the first thing that needs worked on.
I would love to almost copy @AllisKidD21 front suspension set up his GT6000 had or his Rat rod. So if he were around I would love to learn a thing or too from him.
Very soon I want to upgrade the steering to go kart style Heim joints to tighten everything up. Exhaust is something I would love to do Aswell.
Sorry for the long write up but just trying to pick people brains and trying to see what yall would do!
Thanks

Here's a link to the pedal we fabbed up on my friends Suburban 12 in a couple of hours, it works great and looks like it's supposed to be there. The bracket underneath was part of a shifter on a AYP 5 or 6 speed tractor but wouldn't be hard to duplicate, pretty sure the spring was from it as well.

I did some fab work! I am making a rear rack disconnect thingy. My rear rack is a modified milkcrate that is held I my 2 pins to my 3 point just to make it quickly removable.
(My first weld so dont be to mean! lol)
This is my top link mount.


It will bolt to the milk crate like this.


Then I just used a 3/8 pin to tie it in with the top link!


I then forgot to take pictures of the bottom side, but I will explain the simple process I did!
I took a 3/4 bolt and drilled a hole in the bottom for a pin and used a wheel barrel plastic axle spacer to take up slack to fit as tight as it could. Then it just pins right to my drawbar!
So 2 pins and i can attach my 3 point to whatever I need!

An Update at last. I finally got an exhaust built. I was wondering if someone could tell me how to upload a vid. Does it have to be from youtube or can it be from my phone directly?
Here are some pics on how it went.


Its 1.5-inch flex exhaust tube and a Chinese atv muffler. The muffler is just welded to the exhaust pipe. The muffler had its own hanger and to hook to the engine I just cut the OG muffler off and slid new pipe over the old pipe and used exhaust clamp over the top if it and we are good!

Nice!

The host doesn't allow video uploads. Size is my guess. You can link to youtube on the page. Copy the URL to your video, on your post, click that YouTube Button in the formatting bars. A little popup will show asking for the URL of your video. That's where you paste your URL from youtube and it will allow the video to be played direct from your post. Otherwise if you just post the URL, it will just be a link.

@MightyRaze Thanks I am going to try it now.

Edit- Yay.

Very nice. Seems to have a good tone.

Thanks. It took so long to start is it had just ran out of fuel so it was priming the pump lol.

Gas pedal update! Finally redid it, I have been wanting to do that for quite some time but I copped out and bought one that had a bunch of good reviews from fellow tractor people. For the most part it was a bolt in part. Only thing needing modifying to work on a tractor is figuring out where you want to bolt it.
I can tell for sure now my old throttle never let me hit true wide open throttle. I gained about 3 MPH! Which would be 16 MPH, the top speed I mathematically was supposed to get with my pulley ratio but I just assume this engine was old and big tires, she didn't have the power to pull my ratios but i guess not! Pedal is quite comfortable as well.




Also it idles much lower now here is a clip. I did turn the idle up a little after this video tho.

Its much easier to drive as well. It feel a lot more like a car does now in how you can take off much smoother now! A good gas pedal makes all the difference lol.

That's awesome man it looks good! I love the beverage holder too!

@Brianator Yea that is a magnetic cup holder for the side of a toolbox. Pretty cheap too.
Here is a vid of me enjoying my gas pedal and some ice lol.

Also didn't realize the beautiful sunset I caught in the background! This is ice is so slippery that these aren't even clutch drops just taking off with heavier throttle than normal!

Here is a little bit of a cold start video. Since I am still using a Kohler K181 Clone carb there is still no choke linkage. Wonder how quickly it would have started with choke?

I'm amazed to see a Tescumbag run that well. I've tried several carbs on mine and it always seems to run like garbage. Backfires out the exhaust bad.

@Ifitaintbroke
I believe I saw a thread of your about a smaller Tecumseh that you had troubles with. This thing is super picky on carbs this is the only one that it will run with and I had to modify it to fit. I find for the Sears guys its pretty common to modify a Kohler carb to get them to run right, thus why I did it. I did this swap way before this things was a mud mower even, and I have been working on this tractor since I believe start of pandemic. Not to say the cheap super chinesium carb has not given my troubles though. The main jet which on this carb is not screw in has fallen out before and I have just punched it back into place but she fires up every time after I do that so

You have to keep in mind that it's a flathead and like all flatheads there's a chance the valve clearances tighten up which requires removing and grinding/polishing the tips to get proper clearance back. Anytime you have ANY small engine with low compression, poor running no matter what you do and it backfiring first check and adjust the valve clearances whether it be a flathead or a OHV. I've brought many rough running engines back to life by doing so.