This morning I finished my new twin pulley clutch. It's a bit agricultural as I made it out of spare parts but it works great! Couldn't take it for a good drive because I live in a residential area and the mower is a bit too loud but I know it works
In the second one you can see how I used the old pulley as a boss or hub for the new one on the tranny.
Also today I took some photos of my fuel tank setup. It's the fuel tank off the parts mower I have and like most things on The Rancher, it's a bit agricultural
Does the job but - and I have a huge range with it.
Basically the tank was enclosed in its own steel box-thing so all I had to do was to mount this on the mower with as minimal amount of modification as possible. When considering where to put it I came to the dilemma that it didn't fit anywhere!! and as I still wanted to be able to tow stuff I couldn't put it on the back. So I had to put it on the guard - not my favourite position as I think it looks horrible up there (makes good arm rest though) but I didn't have a choice as I needed a fuel tank and this was all I had. Plan is to get a different setup but I don't know what yet or where to put whatever I get. I am open to suggestions - I liked how Chris used the radiator overflow bottles and I may be able to fit one or two between the engine and firewall, they would be mounted high enough that they would almost gravity feed the carby so no pump problems as I think Chris had with his bottles.
This ATLM has been built to a very minimal budget as most have probably noticed - I use whatever I can find lying around the garage and try to recycle as many parts as possible and get creative
Those alloy SHS pieces that are under the fuel tank are offcuts from a pool fence for example and my parts mower I traded my gokart for (good swap imo, the gokart was a pos lol) I hope I am inspiring people as everyone on here has inspired me!!!
Youtube clips of engine running are coming!!
Posted on: 08-09-2007, 07:33:14
OK lets see if this works - Here are a couple of vids of The Rancher running, they were taken just after putting the new exhaust on so I was pretty excited. My neighbour came over after hearing all the commotion and said it sounded like his old Harley
I took it as a compliment
