Projects in the shop

Still have room for one vehicle. I tried to upload these pics in the modern view so I could caption the pictures, but I have to get to bed before midnight. First picture are the bearings out of the Case snowblower I got from Loren the ACG. Second and third are JD 112 and it's transmission. Haven't got to far into it my grandson took it apart. The transmission locks in two gears at once.The third pic is my older grandson's Arctic Cat it needs a new coil behind the flywheel, coil should be in next week. Did I mention the floor is heated. The next picture is of a Montgomery Ward front end mated to a Cub Cadet rear end. That's on hold til some of these other projects are out. The last one is my latest project, rebuilding power tool batteries, nothing to report on that yet, except I bought a new soldering iron that seems to work better than the gun. Couple of hydraulic floor jacks in there somewhere to rebuild. I built that roll around by the Arctic Cat to put parts and tools on while replacing the rear brakes of a 2002 Chevy truck Worked real well. Notice almost everything in the shop is on wheels. Makes for easier cleanup. If you think this is a mess, drop the ladder down and look up in the attic.

That should keep you out of trouble for a while!

I know nothing about snowmobiles. Are they high maintenance items?

KEH

That's a lot of projects, is that an optical Illusion or is your door knob about knee high.

I also have a JD 112. Does yours have the variable speed lever on the right side? I can't tell from your pic.

Must be a step or two down there.

Hey Dave.
If you remember the heap of odds and ends that we sorted through trying to find the missing part for your snowblower, I decided to weld in the shelves under the welding bench to organize the shorts of angles, tubing, and round stock. It's really been nice to put my hand on the exact peice of steel that I need at the moment. I too have a portable bench on wheels to give me a work triangle when fabing. The third link in my work triangle is the roll around drill press stand that I built. all of my work surfaces are the same heigth including the normal setting on the drill press bench plate. My mig welder is is also on wheels and follows me where I need it. I built it so the front caster legs fold down and it stores like a hand truck when not in use. Still need to finish the sheet metal on it.
I sure wish that I had your radiant floor heat, in the shop, but my house is all radiant and the boiler heats the house and shop without anyother source of heat.
You and I also have similar "pondering-design" station/chairs. HeHe.
Did you find a shaft to drive the CC hydro unit?
Loren

All 112's had the variable speed lever on the right side.

thanks for sharing your shop pics. I love to see the places the magic happens. One day I hope to have mine clean enough show to everyone

Snowmobiles are pretty trouble free, new ones really good, his zr700 must be a 1994 I'd say? Brother had a 1994 zr580 which was a size smaller, arctic cat I'd say has the best sled. On the older carb ones you have to be careful in temp changes outside that they don't lean out and melt a cylinder down, brothers 580 did a couple times but rather than that there a good machine. Fuel injected ride whenever as long as you have snow to keep it cool. New ones should run all of 5000 miles trouble free. If easy on them you could get 7500-10000 before you overhaul it, might put on a track in that time which isn't bad and a few sets of carbides on skis. Hifax on suspension slides every 1000-1500 miles but those are cheap and easy to replace. There alot of fun to have.

I should sit in one of those chairs and ponder how I could build a rack to hold all my short steel. I find the longer I ponder, the better the outcome. I plan to go to Steel Sales tomorrow to get a new bumper for my truck and maybe a new driveshaft for the CC hydro.

This JD 112 has the variator lever and that was th original reason to work on it this winter, replace worn belts and bearings. Then it locked up the last time I used it. I think the Detent springs may be broken. I looked at it a little tonight and the shifter forks slide to easy, no detent.

When I moved to this place, the garage floor was in bad shape so I had a contractor come in and pour 4 inches of concrete over the old floor and put PEX in the floor to heat the garage. The previous owner never threw anything away so it was a recycled door. and the 4" of concrete lowered the door knob even more.

I got out of snowmobile riding in the late 80s but prior to that I was a snowmobile mechanic. It seemed to me that the amount of maintenance was dependent on how rough the rider treated the machine. These days they cost around $15000 new. I bought a 1974 Lynx new for 1200 and a new 1973 panther for $300. In 1973 there was very little snow in the country and lots of leftover snowmobiles in 1974

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That should keep you out of trouble for a while!

I know nothing about snowmobiles. Are they high maintenance items?

KEH

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Like most everything else they have come a long way. I had a '99 ZR 600 Arctic Cat back at the time. The one in the pic is probably a '97. I just picked up a 2013 F1100 turbo. My expectation is that I should be able to go out for a 1500 mile ride in a few weeks and do nothing to it but add gas.