1810 to a 1811 RESTORE
 

Hi

I thought I would share my restore of a 1810 that I bought a few months ago.

It all started with me looking for a bigger snow blower than what I already had, which was a 8hp walk behind. To make a long story short, I seen this 1810 on C-List (I was not looking for a tractor with a blower but just a bigger walk behind blower) BUT, for the price I could not resist, considering it comes with the blower, mower deck, cab, wheel weights, and tire chains, plus it only has 352 hr's on it. This thing runs like a clock, and all that for $800.00. All the used "bigger" walk behind blowers are going for "on average" a thousand dollars. So I felt this is a great buy considering my alternatives.

After educating myself on these Cubs (1810, 1811, 1812) I see the only difference is, "no hydraulic", "single hydraulics" and "duel hydraulics" and after trying to lift that blower on my 1810, I decided I'm going to have to have add hydraulic lift. After searching Ebay, I found a guy that was selling the valve body and steel lines with a starting bid of one dollar and no bids as of then, so I called the guy to ask him if he had any of the other parts that I would need and he said he was parting out a 1811, so he said he would have everything I needed. So for 69.00 dollars he sold me everything I needed.

After considering the work involved converting this 1810 to a 1811, I decided to completely dismantle the tractor to sand blast and repaint also replace/repair any thing I might find worn or bad. The ONLY thing I planed on not doing was to not rebuild the engine due to the low hr's.

Welcome to OCC!
Nice pickup on the 1810 and the conversion to an 1811!:beerchug:
You also have a nice looking shop!

:beerchug: You should of made a 1812. Dual hydraulics are the cats meow. I converted my 1811 to dual and love it for snow plowing. More money but well worth it.

Funny how one thing leads to another, isn't it? Nice job! Keep posting progress pics along the way!!

Looking forward to more pics of this, good job so far! :beerchug:

Welcome to OCC! Please keep us updated on your progress!

Neat story. Can't wait to see the progress pics. :beerchug:

Funny you should say that....This is where "one thing leads to another thing" get's even better....Shortly after I purchased the 1810 and received the hydraulic parts of Ebay, I determined I would need to replace one of the two steel lines the Ebay seller sent me (he had told me one of them had kink in it from being bent). So, wile at a Mid Michigan tractor dealer ordering a new steel line at $64.00, another parts guy comes over and says he knows a guy who has a 782 for sale and it has "duel hydraulics" and he thinks he wants $400.00 for it. At that price I thought it would be worth checking out. So cancel ordering the new steel line and instead follow the directions out to this farm who had the 782 for sale. We get there, and the the farmer takes us out to a barn to show me the 782, and proceeds to tell me it hasn't been started in about five years and has no battery. When we get into the barn that it was sitting in, and see it for the first time, I thought to myself, "wow", this thing looks rough...it was covered with pigeon crap, straw, dirt, and sunk into the muddy dirt floor of the barn. But it did have duel hydraulics and a mower deck...I offered $100.00 and he said it's yours. My thoughts were for a $100, I would have duel hydraulics plus a parts tractor for my 1810

After getting the 782 home and unloaded, my friend Scott and myself decide to at least try to start it to see just what it might do. So after putting a battery in it and pouring some gas in the carb and the tank, (there was no gas in the tank) and after a few try's it actually STARTED and idled...I couldn't believe it ..lol.

Well to make a long story short....I power washed it, changed the oil, and checked it out...everything works except for the head lights and tail lights, but I am now mowing my lawn with this thing and I am going to fully restore this one next.

It does have 1700 hr on the clock so I will rebuild the engine on this one.

So, this is why I will convert the 1810 to a 1811 and not a 1812...I actually like the looks of the 782 better though it will need more work and mony to bring it back to like new condition.

Wow, that engine tin looks like it'd clean up to about new, I don't see any rust on it. I bet with a pressure washing that thing would look pretty good. It's possible that's a newer engine, if it's got dual hydraulics it's possible the PO did some engine work, too. If it's got 1700 hours on the clock and runs good without smoking or anything, I'd do a compression check to see where it stands there. If I recall correctly, it's got the older style analog hour meter, are you sure it reads 1700? :bigthink:

Anywho, looks like a keeper to me! Love the red ones, I still miss mine. Congrats!! :beerchug: