Rotavator rebuild

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

I do have a request for help. Originally there was a bearing cap that went on the right end of the shaft to protect the outer end of the bearing, etc. I mounted under 2 of the bolts that hold the bearing, and covered the end of the shaft, and had a cutout to allow access to the grease fitting. I have not been able to find a source for them, does anyone have an idea where to get one.

[CKCowboy]

John
You are a Harry Houdini for sure.
Like how your rotovator has turned out, nice job

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

The paint job is not as good as it looks in the pictures. The shiny paint made me notice a couple of spots where I had missed removing the old grease dirt. I scraped them off with a putty knife and recoated. Plus, it had a lot of pitting I did not try to smooth, just sand blasted and primed.

[Gator809]

Finally got to start working on mine a bit. I'll say this, I WISH my chain cover was as "bad" as ya'lls.

Here it is AFTER about 8 hours of welding and grinding.





And here is a picture of the sealmaster decal.

55redcub, you have a rather large email with a lot more pics.



Later

Hank

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Mine is ready, just need some dry weather and the engine for my tractor back from machine shop so i don't have to change the despeeder and drawbar brackets over. Since mine is being rebuilt for use I did not bother to clean and paint the tines, they would just get dirty again.

[Gator809]

TWITCH TWITCH

AAAARRRRRGGHH!!!!!!!!

I could never find a good picture of the bottom of the chain guard. I looked at my tiller and both sides were flat on the bottom. I didn't realize that it was supposed to be round and have another bolt in the bottom. Heck it's British, and they do wierd things like that. SIGH whats a few more hours of welding .

Hank

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

T..... Heck it's British, ......SIGH whats a few more hours of welding .Hank

Actually it is Australian. Howard invented the rototiller. Plus the tractors they built were way ahead of their time.

[Gator809]

Hum didn't know they were Australian. I can now say I've worked on something Australian. It's just all the small british cars I've had the pleasere/pain of working on have taught me a few things, The British have a very wierd view on tolerences and fitment, Lucas Prince of Darkness and all the other jokes about wiring on British cars are NOT a joke, and the automatic chassie oiling systems do work very well.

Later

Hank

[k9sicem]

John, the only thing left to do with your Howard is to pack it up and send it to my house.

Nice work, well done.

Scott

[Stanton]

Way to go, John! Lots of hard work showing!!

If you adapt those tines to paddles, you could get around alot better with all the rain you've had!!

[Mike in Louisiana]

Hey John, Rick Dale of the TV show American Restorationon on the History channel will be looking for you to go to work for him.

Looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Smokeycub]

Pretty neat John. I'd like to see it hooked up and working when it's finished. I tried to retro-fit a walk behind tiller to my Cub using the PTO to drive it. I used a 1 to 1 right angle drive but it ran WAY too fast, I was launching rocks and sod quite a ways ! Looks like you're making good progress. Keep us posted!

[krose]

nice work so far, that is going to be nice when finished!

[ToddW]

TWITCH TWITCH

AAAARRRRRGGHH!!!!!!!!

I could never find a good picture of the bottom of the chain guard. I looked at my tiller and both sides were flat on the bottom. I didn't realize that it was supposed to be round and have another bolt in the bottom. Heck it's British, and they do wierd things like that. SIGH whats a few more hours of welding .

Hank

I feel your pain!!!! have to do the same thing on mine

[ToddW]

I do not have the inspection cover plate on my chain cover housing. Any ideas what to buy for a plate to make this work???