Good to hear. I have a 660 diesel with a turbo I’ll be rebuilding sometime soon. Can’t wait to break out the checkbook for that🙃

Part 4 might be more than a bit late since i brought the cub cadet back to the family farm to use. Wiring on the engine isn’t too difficult. I cheated and got a one wire alternator that just gets hooked up to the positive terminal on the battery. I’d do a tutorial on my wiring but I made things more difficult by using a key switch that’s meant for a tractor with points ignition.

@@jasonwhitler4167 gotcha. I’m sure I will figure it out by doing more “googling”. Cool projects you have! Thanks for posting,…. Your info is helpful!

@@jasonwhitler4167 where did u get the one wire altenator. I’m running into sparking issues and online people tell me I don’t have an altenator with a built in regulator… so What brand do you have and does it have an internal regulator?

DB Electrical 400-52062. I’m pretty sure it didn’t cost $100 when I bought it 😕 www.amazon.com/dp/B00KGIDF9Y?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Direct drive sucks to work on but it’s worth it when everything is finally working.

lol Second gear pulling that plow that well yeah it has 6 missing plugs

Absolutely! Although plowing with a crawler takes some practice

Thanks! It took me awhile to settle on that design. I made a video on it if you’re interested in doing something similar kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIq2mX2npZqebMUsi=kNoUq7uLYY2BVG-r

@@jasonwhitler4167 I'll check it out thanks.

I can put on an electric pto clutch when I find something to run off the pto. Just don’t need one yet tho

This should give ya a decent idea of how I made it fit. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2a1moxtjZyJfLcsi=K_9SrD1Ja68NwHmd

@@jasonwhitler4167 awesome thank you very much. I have a project sitting on the back burner too busy right now but it's a 102 and it needs an engine and I just happened to have a 420 Predator sitting around.

I’ll get some videos when I have it back on the farm. I get some odd looks driving it around my apartment complex 😂

Ok😂😂 looks good so far

It's odd they they didn't bother to paint the flags yet you can still see them under the black paint

@simplsquam the flags aren’t there. That’s just the outline of the corrosion from the plates that made the flags. Eventually we’ll replace the sheet metal

​@@jasonwhitler4167ohh I see! I mistook that square for painted-over flags

Could just be the shape of the exhaust manifold. Some cylinders have a longer distance for the exhaust to travel than others. 1 and 2 are right next to the outlet

There are some parts manuals for the 999 on eBay. I’d start with getting one of those. It should have all of the plates and crop types listed

I need to film it. I have it running and driving. I’m planning on covering the clutch linkage and a few other parts

Hopefully I’ve made most of the mistakes for you then. I have it running now, I need to film a video on how I had to change the clutch linkage. Really I’d recommend cutting out the frame and dropping the engine further down. My plan of keeping the engine mounted on the same surface as the old kholer was a lot of extra work

Worst case we end up borrowing my uncle’s sprayer to knock out the weeds. We’ve only had a few really wet years where we couldn’t get into the field to cultivate. Generally if the soil has some moisture you can still do a good job cleaning up the rows, but as soon as you start seeing soil peeling/curling off the shovels you have to stop.

I’m not sure, but it’s likely you have the same issue with the height of the crankshaft on the predator engine. Plan on modifying your frame to make it work

Reeves had enclosed gearboxes on their larger engines with oil baths. If I remember right there’s an intermediate gear between the crank and the wheel. It’s a twin cylinder compound engine, so the exhaust steam from the smaller diameter cylinder is reused by the larger cylinder to extract more energy out of the steam. Thanks for watching!

I saw this and rushed to make sure the hood still fit over the alternator. I don’t know how I lucked out, but it fits perfectly without interfering the hood.

Yep they’re a blast. No dead batteries or flat tires either🤣

Thanks for watching. We plant corn on 38” rows. Think my dad was running in 3rd with the TA forward. So probably 3-5 mph

@@jasonwhitler4167 Thanks for the response. Love that row cultivating..

I purchased all of my clutch hardware on eBay. I only had to replace the throw out bearing and the clutch disc

@@jasonwhitler4167 thank you

I’m pretty sure I sourced everything from eBay for the clutch. Sorry it has been a few years and I don’t remember the seller.

I think 2nd? We weren’t trying to break any speed records in the garden🤣

That is a kettle, cooking some supper while on the job, perfect!

I was trading shifts firing with my friends since it was way too hot outside. There’s a hose that feeds the water tank in the shovel, we would use about half a tank in an hour then turn the water back on to fill the tank. Not sure on how many gallons the tank held

@@jasonwhitler4167 Ah. I might have this wrong, but if the water tank gets too low and inject colder water into boiler, run the risk of explosion? So filling half way sounds good.

@@olivei2484yeah you got it right for water level in the boiler. We were told to run with water most the way up the sight glass on this boiler since the house rotating causes the water to slosh around. The water storage tank sits right next to the boiler, adding cold water to it regularly and keeping it full makes the injectors work better.

Thank you!

I might just wire the turnbuckle to the alternator if it tries to loosen up. Hopefully it won’t be an issue tho

Good to know. I’ll give it a try the next time we plow sod

It’s always fun to get the old iron out