Re: Re: Letter to Swartz Manufacturing

Posted by Allan on November 06, 2003 at 07:21:55 from (148.63.132.164):

In Reply to: Re: Letter to Swartz Manufacturing posted by Paul on November 06, 2003 at 06:11:48:

Hi Paul,

Oh, I think I like to hear myself complain is my biggest problem! However:

Yes, the metal dust shields from the trike front are too large for the boss on the Swartz spindle. All the bearings and tri-lip grease seals worked fine, tho.

For what I am going to do, I just ignored the metal dust shields as this tractor will probably never see field work to any extent again. I just left them off.

The steering arm on the Swartz did fit perfectly with the tractor's steering pad bolt pattern.

But secondly, the four large bolts that mount the main frame of the frontend to the tractor were drilled the exact same size as their respective bolts.

This would be fine, but I found that their bolt pattern was off by just a few thousandths of an inch from the tractors bolt pattern. I therefore had to over drill those bolt holes to the next 1/16" to allow the tractor's bolt pattern to be reached.

Final problem was mounting the radius arm bolster assembly. It was not even close to being corrrect. The whole radius arm assembly was off in left field by 1/2" and also, the spread was too narrow.

I used a come-along to bend it over into position, then drilled one frame rail and bolted down the one side.

I then used the come-along while at the same time using a jack to spread that bolster out. When it was in line, I drilled the frame rail and bolted down the opposite side.

All in all, it wasn't so bad; I think what kept gnawing on me was the price of this thing and that it just would not "bolt on". But, I had a lot of fun working on the old gal, anyway.

The front end is not nearly as heavy as the factory units, but will certainly serve my purposes.

And I've gotta be honest: I just can't stand the look of a trike front end; probably because I have never been around them. Just my preference.

Thanks for the hollar back,

Allan

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