Have you looked here?
Up in your part of the country. Maybe you can compare parts in person.
Close enough to you to go look?Huh. How'd I miss that? That looks promising. Email sent, I'll let ya know if it bears fruit.
Close enough to you to go look?
Better fire up the furnace, sounds like some nasty weather headed your way!
Any chance of "rednecking" a junk yard truck rear end into it?Well, poop. Again. Sent the pictures, he doesn't have anything even close. Apparently the tractor is something of an odd duck even among Shibauras.
Maybe I'll slap it back together minus the ring gear so I can use the PTO to drive........whatever.
Any chance of "rednecking" a junk yard truck rear end into it?
Well, poop. Got the axles rebuilt and reinstalled, fired it up and got a little jerky motion out of the left axle. Held the brake on that side and no movement on the right axle, plus some seriously disturbing sounds from the rear end.
Ring and pinion shelled out. No way no how I'd ever find parts for it and even if that particular Unicorn landed in my lap, it'd cost more than the tractor's worth. Time to part it out. Anybody need a nice little 2-banger diesel engine?
Speaking of tow bars...
I'm not entirely sure how steering works on a towed vehicle. Also, the steering is VERY stiff on the Shibaura due, I suspect, to corrosion and swollen rubber bushings in the steering column. Plan A is to unhook the link between the steering box and kingpin.
Is there any advantage to the A frame versus the straight towbar? Both would have ball hitches at the towing tractor end. The straight bar would have a swivel pin at the towed tractor end.
It's basically impossible to back up a rig like that, making it pretty non useful round the homestead.
Where I unload hay wagons requires me to back them out. It provides great fun for the spectators.