Building a Loader for a Garden Tractor - Phase 2: Final Axle Modifications 

Thanks for the kind words and the advice Randy! I'm putting the video together now on what amounts to being the subframe. Though it's not a traditional sub frame. I'd love to hear your opinion after you've seen the next video...

Thanks for your observation. There's no room behind the axle unless I can move the PTO belt, and to move that I have to move the engine.

Yes I've learned a lot about hydraulics in the process. I have mostly installed one configuration that will not work. And here in the next week or two I'm going to install a configuration that will. The big unknown is still the capacity of the hydraulic tank. I don't know if I have the 3-point fully extended and the bucket lowered and the boom raised which is to say maximum hydraulic volume, I don't know if there's enough in the tank to do it. I'll find out by experimentation. And if I have to I will find a way to add volume to the tank.

Also I was told to get your Ackerman you should run a string line from the center of your kingpin to the center of your rear axle. If mounting in front of the kp just extend the line. I have found this to be true in most cases except dirt track cars on a circle track.

I considered that, but I didn't think I could do it in a way that gave me sufficient ground clearance and avoidance of damage to the steering cylinder by running into things. A regular hydraulic steering rack would work, but it would need to be of the correct dimensions. I didn't really know how to track one down I didn't really want to spend the money. So I went this route which was a little trickier but I knew would work. To some degree I'm following the pattern of how case did it on their 646 so I knew the basic approach was workable.

Nope, not at all. At the very fullest tilt either way the tie rod rests gently on the lower sill, but hardly enough even to wear the paint off of it. Nowhere near binding. Other than that it never touches at all.

Thanks for your compliments!

That's what my wife says too!