I have another update coming out soon. I had to change the back belt from a 5/8's to a 1/2", the 5/8 kept coming off and the 1/2 hasn't came off yet... Good luck and thanks for watching.
The greatest RU-vid moment of all time. The spontaneity in his reaction is amazing. Always thinking of his audience and a learning moment. Such a great teacher and a master of his craft.
Purchased this to replace a guide pulley ru-vid.comUgkxO9seYZjlnuP5UvMkb7osQW3WxPVeSnPk on our John Deere x304 snowblower. As I stated in the title, it is just about perfect. The stock pulley has a spacer at the bottom. I used four washers to emulate said spacer, and it works perfectly now. Great product, and great price especially if compared to typical JD prices.
Yes, it scared me a bit. When I realized i was still alive and the camera was still rolling, I had to jump up and make the best of it... Thanks for watching.
Perfect! I'm giving my parents a lightly used Craftsman lawn tractor, and I think I may turn their old Troy-Bilt Pony into my little ripper! I may want to see about adding a foot throttle, engine mods, lower it a little, wheels/tires, etc.
👍🏻 Wheelie to almost flipped straight into demo of current build dodging the emergency room along with the snickering from the cameraman/person.. PRICELESS.. Wheel weights and it’ll turn into a Guinness world record in some country..
I did this same thing with a 90's model Vari-Drive mower, I also bought a 3" longer than stock belt (stock is 53, I bought 56) and it worked perfect, despite being an older and different setup. Swapped on a v-twin, bypassed the governor and it will go 15 MPH before the valves float. Cheap and effective, I want to try a torque converter on the crank pulley!
Damn Man U had me rolling on that killer fender scraper!! I must have watched it 10 times. Thanks! Trust me I’ve had my moments on my rider. Hauling 40 sinder blocks with my trailer, I got off it kept rolling down the hill through my neighbors fence. I wish I had it on film!
I think I would have turned the angle iron for the frame around so the horizontal piece was under the frame instead of sticking out... other than that, it was cool seeing the speed difference, and you leaning a bit too hard on that last take-off hehe... glad you weren't hurt though :)
I would have trimmed the tabs with a cut off wheel. But, I really like your video, I subbed and high fives! Thanks for sharing. And there goes his health insurance!
Just picked up the exact same mower. Whe i was pulling the deck off i noticed the way the pulleys where ran and it got me thinking... Stumbled across your video and hell yeah... Building this rider for my girls. Geat video for sure. Very clear instructions.👍👍👍
I used to build these "Hot Rods" for my kids !! LOVE IT !! I'm 67 years old and it still cracks me up !! Just plain GOOD OLE FUN !! I know you did the wheelie on purpose so you could show the under side ... wink wink !! LOL !! Keep on keeping on my man !! Have fun and stay safe !! P.S. put a smaller pulley on the transaxle ... and HANG ON !! LOL !!
Yeah, but those use splined pulleys that I don't know where to find. I usually swap the back pulleys, but this one I had to do something different. thanks for watching.
I really like your style, your having WAY to much fun. I'm a retired mechanic and love tinkering with anything mechanical! Looks like you do to. Keep up the modifications and your sprit!!!😂😎😂
I'm from Florida and I "lifted" my weed eater and did a Jerry rigged pully swap I wish I would have rewatched your videos but I was ready to ride so now my mower wants to kill me, but great videos
Grade 8 bolts are made to hold things together, fastening one thing to another. They are not made for shear strength.. they will snap when the shear force is too high where as a grade 5 bolt will bend and flex before it breaks. Most people think a grade 8 or hardened bolt is the best you can get and you should use them in place of a grade 5 if you need something stronger and that’s just not the case unless they are being used to fasten one thing to another.
I have misplaced the grade 8 bolt, I might get something softer today and test your theory. Then have the grade 8, when I find it, in the toolbox as a back up. thanks for watching.
I just got a zero turn after using two 21" unreliable mowers, one needed to be started with an industrial impact drill. Almost broke an arm doing it, now I have a reason to use it again!
Two things, if you ever see this comment! Show us how to put a pedal on that will still let you use the dash lever? Set and forget the lever but 'boost' with the pedal.. and now I've forgotten what the other thing was so nevermind. :P Good video. liked, subscribed (about a year ago) and finally rang the damned bell!
I have thought about that, but haven't done it yet. I would be just like having cruise control. I will try to make it happen some day. Thanks for watching.
There are two and it is a bit of a pain. I take the rear end loose on both sides, remove the bolts on one side and tilt the body up. That helps to get the belt on. The first time took a while, but then I got pretty good at it. thanks for watching.
Im doing a pony I picked up the other day, got 26 inch tires on it! It came from my d105 build I did, but I'm swapping the 17.5hp to the Troy, its a rolling chassis. So its alotta work, but it'll be worth it! the 17.5 has your pully swap already,so I came back to your vid for the belt sizes Thanks a ton!
@@chud327 😂😂 yeah when I saw the video originally it was 2 years ago, shortly after the plastic gears in the d105 stripped out and didn't do anything about it till now
Clean your carburetor, completely. That means the main jet, especially. A partially obstructed main jet will cause a surging carburetor. You also should be using a fuel filter coming directly from the fuel tank.
I rode one that had the back pulley swapped. It was fast. One thing about doing something like this....make sure your brakes are excellent. Also if not careful going down hill on a bumpy road, it can get away from you fast.
its amazing how smooth they idle with a good carb, not some china trash from the newer briggs an strattons, there twitchy messes, great video bud thanks for the infos ^^
@@blakearnold489 I just put really nice back tires on Colonel Craftsman, truck bed swimming pool, homemade pontoon boat #2, chewy van running, redoing the kitchen countertops, go cart, etc... Thanks for asking.
I haven't done that yet, but i am thinking of flipping my poulan's front pulley. I will do 21, if that doubles... well, we may never know. thanks for watching.
@@chud327 yeah it took a lot of fabrication to get mine to go that fast and different parts also if you need any tips or ideas on what I did just message me I'll tell you what I did to mine maybe it will help or maybe you can improve on them ideas and make something even better LOL
@@dionbecker3496 you need to put a solid live rear axle in it and run a separate transmission. Then you can have two separate ways to change gear ratios. 1 will be the pulley ratio from the engine to the trans and two will be gear ratios from the trans to the rear. That gives you tons of options to go as fast or slow as you can handle driving it lol.
I love that, you should say you were studying mower physics for a project. Thanks for watching especially at school. I used to be a teacher, I know what that is like.
By flipping the front pulley, the deck would only turn half as fast, so you wouldn't want to use it to mow the grass any more. Looks like you could have flipped the intermediate pulley (the one at 8:20) instead and gotten the same result. And then you could still use it with the deck on it. Of course, if you have no intention of using it to mow the grass, you could _still_ flip that second pulley, and get even *_more_* speed out of it.
Thanks so much. The transmission may not last very long, but then again, I don't like them much anyways. It would be much better to replace it with one with gears anyways. That is the plan if it breaks, but keep watching and we will see together how durable it turns out to be. Thanks for watching.
4:40 I would only drill out to 1/4" and then use the weakest bolt possible (#2 zinc?). If the load on the pulley becomes too great, you want the bolt to shear not the pulley or the crankshaft.
@@chud327 Kool mod for speed! I learned from being on a farm where there's lots of different farm equipment that uses sheer bolts and they were designed to be weaker than the machine parts they connect. When you are drilling post holes you'll usually go through at least a handful of them so I always kept a big bag of the bolts handy.
Chud: I'm going to double the speed of this by increasing the size of the pulley. Me: that's stupid now he's cutting the torque in half. It'll take forever to accelerate. Chud: does a wheelie and a tiny rooster tail Me: .... N/m he's good
my one rider, if the mower deck is off (like in this video) if I stand on the back of the rider, it will lift the front off the ground some, so it does not take a lot, with something like this with a very high center of gravity...very fun!
