gitractorman wrote:Well, I've been watching this thread and you guys are cracking me up. Super A, you have got to cool off a bit.
Bill
Y'all, I tell you I'm not riled at anybody. Like I said it's your tractor, do what you wish. I guess I don't see a diesel conversion being worth anything because of my perspective--a Cub is perhaps the perfect cultivating tractor, excellent for mowing, and other light draft jobs. It's hard for me to see it for much of anything else. On our farm, we couldn't use it for much else. THe pto is backwards, wrong hitch, etc. etc. etc. Also, I love tractors, but when I buy one, I usually have something in mind that it can do--even if it's a "toy." That's my idea of fun I guess....
My point is, a diesel cub in my eyes is reinventing the wheel, except instead of being perfectly round like a wheel should be, this wheel will end up being more egg shaped-it'll never be much because of the inherent Cub characteristics that a motor swap does not address. There are way better alternatives out there.
That said, if someone simply must do a diesel conversion, I suggest you contact John Kinsenbaw.....(I butchered the spelling of his name, but do a Google for Kinze planters.) He is well known for repowering big JD's and others with Detroit Diesels. How would a big "Dee-troit" look in a Cub?
Here's another great alternative, it's even a Farmall!
Al
(I still wouldn't have a diesel Cub on a July Christmas Tree though.....
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...the secret is out...you just can't help yourselves...you neither one have shops...you have laboratories and your creations are the result of lightening striking steel in a precisely controlled environment... 
they're manned 24/7 by scientists and lab techs...we know about those two foot thick walls and 12 foot fences topped with barbed wire... 
oh yes...and did I mention the extraterrestrial assistance from your friends via.... 
the flying saucer is Cub powered and Big Dog's the pilot!!!... 
