Custom off-road mower front axle for SCRAPPY MOWER 2.0
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Well after nick blew out his steering on one of our last night adventures we decided to go a head and just rebuild everything up front! Start with getting the old axle and steering out and replacing it with a homemade custom bent tube front axle!
We’re big fans of articulation on our mowers, but with that comes lots of extra stress on parts!
We built this setup strong!
Fully bearing articulation mount and spindles will help keep this axle riding smooth!
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Stay tuned for part 2 where we mount this beauty front axle into the frame!
Big thanks to @RogueFabrication for making such a awesome tube bender!
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Riley, you do some fantastic welding!! This video is so fantastic. Anyone who has a company would be happy to sponsor you!! I love the well placed subscribe sticker.
A tip you may already know...take the biggest heaviest chisel you have and use it like a scraper on the spatter, it cleans it up good enough for most situations pretty quickly. Tight spots use a small chisel and a light tap with a hammer
Great advice!!! thank you.
You do some good work brother. Great vid 👍
nice fab work, if it been me think id added a few zerk fittings and pulled those inner bearing seals. other then that you did real good, good clean work. waiting to see more. we fab bro's build rather then buy it. good tee shirt idea.
Sometimes zerk fittings are an afterthought.....especially on top of all that beautiful work. They can add them later .
Yep added some, will see them in the next episode or two!
@@okoffroadmowers You guys are the best. I am getting together a decent shop full of equipment however I need tooling for my lathe and have to find the money to purchase a tubing bender or make one. I have never seen the level of sophistication that you put into tractor off roading. I hope you guys can come down here when it gets warmer. Until then the inspiration is enough. Thanks.
nice welds!
Lol hell ya sick clean
Just came across this video you guys are sick, I'd pay good money to have a front end like this!
Do you have a link to purchase the headlights you are using from vivid lumen?
Give them a message on Facebook or Instagram and ask for the OKOM headlights!
@@okoffroadmowers ok thank you so much!
When turning on your lathe don't leave your tool holder sticking out so far. Besides a little camber tilt your axle back about 5 degrees. ( Caster).
Looks to me like there was already some pretty extreme caster worked into the mount for the axle that came out so Id imagine he's aware of the benefits of positive caster...especially on something top heavy like a tractor with aggressive rear tires and a locked rear end.. the pivoting front axle takes away some of that effect.
I retract my previous comment... After seeing pretty much all the other builds on this channel(...dramatic pause to reflect on how we learned from our own mistakes...) I have concluded in my opinion; the fab skills are definitely there but the finer points of tuning steering and suspension geometry on a four wheeled vehicle seems to not be in the scope of his builds.. the transaxle modifications on this channel are second to none tho ( minus the fact that he put a 1" mild steel keyed axle in an 820, did everything perfect except keep the stock needle bearings. I hope thats a cheap lesson for him to learn cuz it wasn't for me)
Will be opening up the 820 to see if any damage had arises from this shaft issue you are so worried about. So far many hard rides on it and not one single sound of an issue, like we have said we are leaning as we go. And trying to help those building mowers aswell. As you can probably see that..
@@okoffroadmowers it really depends on the type of steel your axle is made of... I said u used a mild steel axle but I don't know that.. that's only based on what I've seen available so you're results may vary. I think what happened to me was the needles ate the axle slowly cuz it was too soft and that caused wear on the outer race of the bearing which eventually....one year and two days later let go of the needles into the key and cracked the bearing and the case... ik running needles on any keyed shaft is a dangerous game tho lol like cutting a notch on the inner race of a ball bearing that is twice the size as the ball... I wanna see what happens if I weld the key in those spots on a normal axle and turn it smooth and polish it.. I also thought about turning just that spot down and using a hardened steel bushing or something cut in halves as like an inner race shell bearing thing.. but that's the problem tho the shaft is the inner race
Was thinking of doing the weld and turn down so that it’s a flush surface, also may just run sealed ball bearings in place of them!
How much to buy the old one?!?!, I'm in Canada! Alberta!, I'll pay shipping!
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What size rim and tire is scrappy running in the front?
19x8 up front
25” rear on 12” rim
@@okoffroadmowers do you have any old front tires that I could buy with the rim i lm also in bc and can pay shipping?
No I don’t, front tires and rims are hard for us to find
So keeping any that we do have!
Ye first
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