Mini Motor Grader build

[sawdustdad]

Originally Posted by DRohacek

Frank, I have been thinking about your crawler idea. If you have the front rear turned around do you need to turn the charge pump 180 degrees because the drive shaft will be turning the opposite direction? Another thing I was thinking about is you can swap the ring gear to the left side and that will change direction instead of messing with the swash plate. You could change the linkage to move the control the same direction for forward then. The Cub rears can have the ring gear on either side. It makes no difference. In tractor pulling some guys run their tractors off the pto side of the engine instead of off the flywheel. When they to that they change the ring gear to the opposite side.

Yes, I was thinking I'd need to change the charge pump around.

I need to look at the rear ends and assess the difficulty in swapping the ring gear. Never messed with the rear ends before, so I'm not very familiar with that stuff. But it makes sense and sounds like the way to go.

I'm going to have to start another thread if I get serious about the crawler. I had been thinking about an articulated tractor, but that's been done a lot, so looking for something a bit more unusual, though there have been a couple tracked conversions. If I do the crawler, it needs to look and operate like a scale model of a real bulldozer. A mini D10. The D0.1.

This would be a project for next winter with some planning and testing/prototyping between now and then.