About a month ago I bought a 127 with the intention of fabricating a blade on it to push snow. It had a blown head gasket and was missing part of the pto. When I got it home I put a new head gasket in it and had it running fairly well minus the smoke. After doing some looking into an overhaul kit and new pto, I quickly found out it would be cheeper to get a parts tractor to fix it up right. After posting on craigslist, a guy from Minnesota called me and told me he had a 123 parts tractor, a running 127, IH blade, and snow thrower if I was interested.
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Bob Coakes, on Flickr
Well after the long haul last weekend to get them, they sat in the garage all week just waiting to get worked on.
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Bob Coakes, on Flickr
On Saturday, I got the old smoking block out of the 1st 127, changed its front axle with the 123's, put the 123's motor in the 127, got the sucker running, and mounted the blade. I still need to get some lights fabricated for it, but I having a feeling that I'll have plenty of time to get it done before it snows here.
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Bob Coakes, on Flickr
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Bob Coakes, on Flickr
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Bob Coakes, on Flickr
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Bob Coakes, on Flickr
Future plans are to rebuild the pto from two broken ptos I have and depending on how much snow we get, put the snow thrower on the 2nd 127 who is still on mower duty.
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Bob Coakes, on Flickr