I'm getting ready to put a new wire harness in the 782 so I switched the 44c deck over to the 982D for mowing duty. It went much faster than I thought. I just had to change the positioning of the undercarrige and lift links and check the side/side and front/back level. That diesel just sips the fuel while mowing. I also ordered new heim joints/rod ends for the steering from mcmaster to replace those worn out junk oem parts.

Isn't that the truth. I'll be hard-pressed to use up one tank full by Fall.

:)

Had a few limbs to haul. We had a bad storm last night with some hail. My wife snapped some pics. :beerchug:

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You and the 100 with the cart are lookin good ACecil :ThumbsUp:
Hope the storm didn't tear things up to bad.

Looking good Allen and the 100 too! haha

Thanks guys! :beerchug:

Got my hydraulic/ power steering pump mounted and tried it out. I hooked up a gauge and flow control so I could check the pressure output of the pump. It got up to 1200 PSI before the belt rolled over on the pulleys and trashed the belt. It was a junk China belt from TSC. Gonna try to find a good belt next time. I think 1200 PSI is a little too much so I'm gonna try to shim the relief valve in the pump to lower the pressure a little. I'm thinking 7-800 PSI should be more than enough.

Does anyone know what kind of pressure the hydraulics normally put out on a Cub?

I still need to find a valve and some cylinders but I think I know a guy who might have some I can use. I'll check with him next week.

Sorry guys, no pics yet. I dropped my camera a couple weeks ago and killed it.

You would need to remove shims to reduce the pressure. I think my manual says that 782s are set at 600-700 psi, and the larger 982 at 7-800 psi. I wouldn't go a lot higher than 800, either.

Thanks Matt.
I found a site that talked about increasing the pressure on a GM pump by removing shims to increase pressure on the relief spring and thereby increasing pressure output so I'm going to add shims and try to get it down around 700-800 PSI.

That must be backwards of the way the hydro pump reliefs work.

Either that or whoever wrote that is wrong...I can't envision how you would make a relief valve in which you would remove shims to increase the pressure. That seems counter-intuitive. If the relief valve is a plug with a spring and cone- or ball-shaped plunger under it, you will need to remove shims and not add them.

Now you've got me really curious as to how the relief valve in it is designed.:bigthink:

Do you have a GM pump or some other brand? I googled around and found that a lot of other PS pumps have a relief valve more like what the hydrostatic pumps use, where you'd remove shims to decrease the pressure.