As some of you know (Potato) I make some money mowing lawns on weekends but driving around going max revs at like 8mph isn't really ideal so I was wondering how hard and expensive would it be to do a pulley swap on the transmission? (To add maybe 5-10mph to top speed?)
It probably wouldn't be the effort & expense. But if you have the resources/experience, It might be a fun experience.
Does your tractor have a hydro static. That's all I work with and I'm not too familiar with all the other types of lawn mower propulsion systems. If it is, I can help. Edit: On second thought, I guess it doesn't make too big of a difference.
since I am learning to drive I have no say in this matter...although I have failed my theory test 4 bloody times...2 on technical faults in the system and the other 2 I was being arrogant...5th time I hope to get it right the last time I failed it said I did 38 questions with 42 correct and each question was worth 1 point and its out of 50 questions...I donno but that sounds screwing to me...sorry off topic but I hope to get my licence soon
What? Oh you mean those automatic ones? Yeah, no. My neighbors had a fancy-dancy John Deere mower which had one and at the time we still had a crappy push mower so they let me use it in return for mowing their lawn too for a while.
So yours has a clutch and gears and stuff? If so, then where is the clutch? Is it somehow linked into the belt on the driveshaft?
Yeah. The clutches on this type are on the same pedal as the brake. (First half of the pedal is clutch and the second half is clutch and brake) I have no idea how the clutch actually works but I'm pretty sure it's just a cable running to the transmission.
So I guess yours has an actual transmission. On the autos, the drive belt connects directly to the "driveshaft" coming out of the engine. The actual speed of the tractor is controlled by wizardry in the hydrosatic. i guess I'm not much help here. But if you do need my help, pm me. I know you're a big boy and can do it on your own, just making sure you know you can always come to your friendly neighborhood potato for advice
Well, yeah, it's pretty much the same thing. belt goes from crankshaft pulley to transmission pulley. One issue is that I'm gonna have to try really hard to figure out what model my mower is.. It'd be fun to do it before snow for some driveway drift action
That's what i plan to do with my old tractor, drift in the snow. If we'd ever get any. With my luck, though, I'd probably slide into a curb and tip over.
Well, yeah. I did have some fun drifting my rc car around last year but the charger kinda broke and still needs to be soldered. Plus my dad isn't really a big fan of me doing this pulley swap. (I talked to him about doing it)
After the stunt you pulled in the cars you drive thread, I somehow suspect that neither of these vehicles are your dads, or even the same vehicle (for a start, steelies dont match and one has a rollcage, although it is plausible to do that as a mod there is no reason to on what appears to be a perfectly intact work van) - - - Updated - - - Probably doable, but you would lose out on torque, and lawn mowers really do need torque, as it is our lawn mower has been known to stall cutting our lawn without any mods just from the sheer length that our grass gets to (no idea why, but if you dont cut it weekly, it quickly becomes knee deep).
I've cut someones lawn that probably hadnt been cut in like over 2 or 3 months. It was REALLY long. And it did fine. I woudn't be changing anything on the blade belt/pulley system, just the transmission pulley. Besides, I could just use a lower gear and it would be pretty much the same as before. (At least that's what I think anyway)
relatively few things came up in a reverse image search so it seems to be legit. http://www.spedeworth.co.uk/news2.php?id=1082 https://www.google.com/search?tbs=s...lAser2gXg6ICIAg&start=0&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=962 - - - Updated - - - I geared a mower to 20mph or so once. It wasn't going to be used for cutting. It only had a 5hp motor (that i reved the piss out of, never blew ) and it could spin the tires if i dumped the clutch it the last gear. 1st gear was still balls slow so it would have been fine. You should be good at a slightly lower gear ratio if you watch what you're doing
So you want a faster mower? I think my friend in Illinois knows something about this...haha http://mazda626.net/topic/34276-my-turbo-lawn-mower/?hl=+turbo++mower#entry282633 -Custom mitsu TD04 turbo off a TT 3000GT -Custom exhaust -Custom paint (lol) -Custom gas pedal (relocated from the dash, to a 'Big FooT' pedal assembly on the floor) -Red underbody neons -Red 'cobra eyes' -Dual gauge pod with boost and temp gauges -Custom electric fan from a probe turbo -Bypass (BOV) also from a probe turbo -Pushing 5 psi If it has an engine, you can turbo it.
I was hoping you wouldn't post something silly. I was trying not to go too off-topic. They are talking about lawn mowers, not tractors.
