Well I headed down to the garage after dinner tonight...wanted to get a few loose ends done!
Here I final welded the front axle end plates on
Here is where the axle will live for the rest of its life!
(Yes, I ground off all the surface rust prior to welding the axle in)
After axle was placed in chassis. I made sure it was perfectly centered in chassis.
Here you can see some of the welds on the underside
And here you can see where I have welded the axle to the chassis
Had a few minutes to kill tonight so I made up this little fixture that gets mounted over the engine clearance hole on the chassis. This fixture puts a “simulated†crankshaft thru the center of the engine mount so I can install a pulley on it to mock up my belt/clutch linkage.
Most guys use a bottom case with the crank put in it while mocking up their drive system…since I didn’t have a spare bottom end but I did have these things laying around the garage I made this fixture instead!!
Thats all I did tonight. I had a real busy day at work and I'm tired!
Be back out in the garage tomorrow night..not sure if it will be working on the mower...I really need to pick up the mess I made over the past couple of days!