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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Valve adjustments on flathead Cub
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Posted by Bama Binder on September 11, 2002 at 19:41:16 from (65.149.20.186):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Valve adjustments on flathead Cub posted by Don on September 11, 2002 at 05:07:40:
Don...glad you got the info. More HP to the Cub??? A lot has been written about trying to do that. Here is the scoop as I understand it. My experience is with a 1952 Cub and a 184 Cub Loboy. I have one of each. The original Cub produced less than 10 horses at the drawbar and a couple more at the PTO, but not at the same time. The 184, the most powerful varient, allegedly produces 18 hp, but I'm not sure where that was measured. Primary differences: the more powerful varient has high compression aluminum pistons, a Zenith model 68YY7 carb, and the governor setting it 2300 RPMs at load versus 1800 at load for the regular cub. Does it make a difference? Probably, but it depends on whether you want to rebuild with these components or not. The Cub is a great little tractor that beats the stew out of the lawn tractors Sears and Lowe's sells for essentially the same price. Yes, you have more maintenance involved, but you are dealing in iron and steel, not aluminum and plastice and sheet stampings. The 59" mowers (I have a woods 59" on my 1952 and an IH 3160 59" on the 184 are power robbers because they have less swinging mass than the smaller 42" brush type mowers. I can just mow a 60" swath through 6" grass with the 184. With the 1952 I might could do 4" without problems. So the bottom line is that without going to a larger machine, you are pretty limited. Wish the news was better. I have just resigned myself to more time on the tractor, but then that ain't all bad either.
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