So this is why they call me Filthy Rich, 'cause even when I get my good clothes on we're still
driving and crawling over tractors
this is actually my wife's car, and uh, this is all grease I got
all over her seat. She doesn't really appreciate that. Sorry honey, but thank you for your car.
So this was actually my first Cummins conversion, we did this one
uh, three or four years ago I can remember this is a 935 Versatile
and it had a 902 in it I believe, I forget what engine was in a bit was a v8
diesel and they stopped making parts for them
a while back so they threw a rod through the side and
the rest the tractor was still decent, they they still had some decent
rubber on it back then
so we decided to put an 850 Big Cam Cummins in it from a concrete truck.
So because we went to a six cylinder iand it's a lot bigger,
we did cut the frame and uh, we had the piece
um, we had to order in a special C channel that match the original frame
and then we just stuck in the middle so we we cut the whole front half of the
tractor and shoved it ahead
um, to make room for the engine and then uh, welded the peace in the middle
um, actually it looks pretty good for running it
uh 3, 4 years anyway, they got a little oil leak coming out of uh
the return hose off the turbo but other than that
um it's a pretty dry engine, other side too.
So, we did uh, the air breather used to be up on the top and the exhaust used to be on
the front so we switched that around just because of the
way the turbo was sitting, and we wanted to keep it kinda neat
and uh, make it look as professional as we could with a
with a 30-year-old tractor so we made all these mounts for it of course
um, the only thing we messed up on this tractor was
um, this was only uh
a few years they made a cross-flow low-flow
rad for it so this is a what they call a low-flow
cooling system and both rad hoses go to the top of the rad.
And instead of going from the top to bottom and
flowing fast, the coolant stays in the rad a lot longer
and they have uh, it was a bad idea kinda like the six litre Fords where they were
only available for a few years, they realized that it was a bad idea and they
just stopped making them
um they bought this engine from a wreckers before
I looked at it, and I didn't even know what a low-flow was until I got
working on it, realized a rad hoses didn't fit so
they they had the old original rad all cleaned up and
and fixed and then they ended up having to find a rad that fit
in between the frame rails and we had to
we actually had to cut the the top of the C channel again you can see it here
just to fit the rad in. Um, the problem with the low-flow is they had a big
problem with overheating so we put a massive, we put as big of a fan as we
could on the front
the problem is it takes a lot of horsepower to run a fan like this too so
the the only way to keep the fan belts from burning off
is to use this parallel, it's a two rib parallel
fan belt but you can see it's already loose again
they do burn a lot of fan belts, so they go through about three fan belts a season I guess
which isn't the end of the world but if we did it again we wouldn't
definitely not go with the low-flow cooling system but
we jumped from the original, I think it was a 180 horse to
the high 200's now and I'll show you on the other side
just like every other injection pump
you can actually just play with your um
by turning this screw in, um you're able to give it more or less fuel
so it was actually backed off, we gave him a little extra horse, we don't wanna rip
the whole back half of the tractor apart, so we
we give it as much power as they want, um as long as you can, pretty much you can go as fast as you
can stay in the seat when you're running this thing, so
um, yeah we try to keep it nice and neat, put all the hoses in here
this wasn't, the cover wasn't my... my idea
to keep it from rubbing but it works everything else we tried to keep it nice
and tidy and I guess he's got a little leak on the bottom of his uh
hydraulic pump on the side too, but
we had to get all new sheet metal made up so we had it bent in the same profile
and then we just painted it, um he said he was gonna put some stickers on the side, but
this is four years ago and it still doesn't have it, so
it's about 10 degrees Celsius out, it's still kinda chilly,
but we'll see if uh, see if she fires up. I think this is the first time they've fired it up this season
so
oh, this one I think. It's been a long time.
that's probably throttle
Oh wow. Oh yeah. Murphy switch
Oh, it still purrs like a kitten
now the hood is nice and long, you can see all the, it was kinda tricky
getting it to lineup and look neat so we did have to put
quite a few bolts in it to uh, to make it
line up nice, and when you're driving down the field, this is
this is the view you get, nice long nose but
pretty neat tractor, I think.
The biggest problem with this tractor is, the road gear is
just terrible, I don't know what the top speed is, but it's nowhere near what you
would like it to be.
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