old Japanese SUZUE tractor repair

[abig84]

this thing has stolen the last 4 weekends away from building my 52 chevy. went to visit my old work and it was still sitting outside where i last seen it 4 years ago so asked if i could have it

after a few hundred cranks of bleeding all the air out of the lines it fired up and ran

you can see the 52 loitering under the tarp


the wiring was all burnt up for some reason (tractor worked when parked like 6 years ago)


also someone stole the voltage regulator off it for some reason along with the seat lol

took a while to figure out what all the levers on this thing does


also i found it interesting that the hydraulic oil is shared by the transmission gear box. a axle seal fell out from sitting and lost all the hydro fluid

the original reason it got parked was due to the gear box breaking and couldnt find parts for it. i searched a few tractor junkyards and couldnt find anything so ordered a random one off ebay, guess i should have asked for dimensions


so with a little bit of cutting and some scrap metal i had laying around part of a old trailer hitch i ghettofied a big bracket to hold the giant gear box




very tight fit


so hopefully the gear box works as i had to cut some stuff off of it to get it to fit, no way i can return it.

all im waiting on is the steering wheel, i figured one of the ones off some of the gm columns i had laying around would fit but no luck. also have to fab a seat onto it, all the ones i have for riding lawn mowers are to wide, have to hack a inch off of one of them