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its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

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its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Indy4570 » Sat Feb 23, 2019 11:44 pm

I posted a pic in another thread but I decided some of you may enjoy having a detailed peek at the franken VW skidsteer death trap. I call it a death trap because it is, it has no gear reduction and no steering wheel, it steers hydraulically with a valve. it flows waaaayyyy too fast so it locks the steering one way or the other very quickly. The other issue is with rear steer and highway gearing even 1st gear is way to fast!! it is the sum of its parts that got me to buy it, mostly I wanted the engine for another project. but making it run has made it seem a shame to part out :P now the axles could be made inot so sort of gear reduction solving the speed issue and a reducing valve with some sort of tiller could solve the steering issue. But hey I dont know if I will ever get around to that. it has a 1600 CC dual port engine, a 3 rib bus transmission and a VW axle in the rear for steering. a fully working loader and a working dump bed.
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Indy4570
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Tractors Owned: 49 F cub, donor
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62 140 Industrial The Beast
50s Allis Chalmers B
50 Ferguson TO20 Huppster
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JD 790 4x4 w/backhoe
hinomoto diesel 4x4, early to mid 80s 20HP
73 Pasquali 4x4 diesel 33HP
74 Toro golf course tractor
Gilson 18HP
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Location: Missouri Ozarks

Re: The Volkswagon...

Postby Indy4570 » Sat Feb 23, 2019 11:51 pm

its one of a kind, I do not think you will ever find another one like this. It has five hydraulic cylinders, valves, engine, bus trans, wheel adapters, so many parts is why i bought it, seized, but I got it running in an hour.

i think its a fun beast and who knows what kind of doodlebug I might make from the parts
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49 Ferguson TE20 Fergie
JD 790 4x4 w/backhoe
hinomoto diesel 4x4, early to mid 80s 20HP
73 Pasquali 4x4 diesel 33HP
74 Toro golf course tractor
Gilson 18HP
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Missouri Ozarks

Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Indy4570 » Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:19 am

its a funky machine for sure, but its kinda cute in its own way :P
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JD 790 4x4 w/backhoe
hinomoto diesel 4x4, early to mid 80s 20HP
73 Pasquali 4x4 diesel 33HP
74 Toro golf course tractor
Gilson 18HP
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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Indy4570 » Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:59 am

ok so you are all speechless right? grins, I thought this weird contraption might get a comment or two at the very least. maybe if I painted it red :P
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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Urbish » Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:55 am

It's an interesting piece of home engineering. Looks like something out of a Mad Max movie. I think you ought to dress up as a Mad Max character while operating it! :{_}:
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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Slim140 » Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:15 am

Speechless is a good word, I like death trap even better cause that is exactly what it is :surrender:
Every home is a school, what are you teaching?

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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby outdoors4evr » Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:23 am

Hmmm.... Too Fast, Sketchy Steering... What could go wrong? It is quite the creation (contraption) that has somehow come to be from mind to beast. This has to be the heaviest duty Loader-Gator I've ever seen! (Loader on the front, Gator Box on the back)
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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby SONNY » Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:57 pm

Somebody put a LOT of time and money making that thing! I would figure out a way to reduce the speed and make a real machine out of it! thanks; sonny

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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby proctordesigns » Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:24 am

Looks similar to the military "mule" vehicles. They are cool and had some unique features.

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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Jackman » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:27 am

I think you need the cooling tubes that go from the fan shroud down to the exhaust .. Not a VW expert but I think those tubes are important :-?

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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Indy4570 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:38 pm

Jackman wrote:I think you need the cooling tubes that go from the fan shroud down to the exhaust .. Not a VW expert but I think those tubes are important :-?


they are not actually cooling tubes, they provided heat by blowing air across the original heat exchangers on the VW cars n vans
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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Waif » Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:34 am

Well? A roll bar is a good thing...
Reduced throttle range or a milder governor would not make me weep..
Reducing steering valve flow is next.
IF it has rear brakes ,there's some more steering.

Pulley guards (should they be built) need to be robust.
A trike I donated parts to took a slight bump from an elderly lady at a grocery store.
The owner only noticed a slight dent on a pulley guard and waved her off.
She had centered a pully's shaft , and drove it forward enough to be fatal....

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50 Ferguson TO20 Huppster
49 Ferguson TE20 Fergie
JD 790 4x4 w/backhoe
hinomoto diesel 4x4, early to mid 80s 20HP
73 Pasquali 4x4 diesel 33HP
74 Toro golf course tractor
Gilson 18HP
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Missouri Ozarks

Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Indy4570 » Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:16 pm

Waif wrote:Well? A roll bar is a good thing...
Reduced throttle range or a milder governor would not make me weep..
Reducing steering valve flow is next.
IF it has rear brakes ,there's some more steering.

Pulley guards (should they be built) need to be robust.
A trike I donated parts to took a slight bump from an elderly lady at a grocery store.
The owner only noticed a slight dent on a pulley guard and waved her off.
She had centered a pully's shaft , and drove it forward enough to be fatal....


I think it is more likely to be parted out for the sum of its pieces. someone said a dime placed in the fitting reduces flow, it was an old trick used by farmers back in the day. I thought a tiller arrangement on the side would improve steering. but it really needs a gear reduction of some sort to be useful at all. and I have a use for some of the parts so maybe one day it will be a donor for a few other projects. I think the dump bed will go on the Toro yardmaster. the engine and trans into a EMPI sportster from the 60s I have.
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Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Waif » Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:42 pm


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Tractors Owned: 49 F cub, donor
50 Farmall Cub bugeyes(dead)
55 Farmall Cub Clementine
55 International loboy
62 140 Industrial The Beast
50s Allis Chalmers B
50 Ferguson TO20 Huppster
49 Ferguson TE20 Fergie
JD 790 4x4 w/backhoe
hinomoto diesel 4x4, early to mid 80s 20HP
73 Pasquali 4x4 diesel 33HP
74 Toro golf course tractor
Gilson 18HP
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Missouri Ozarks

Re: its a VW...tractor! ( no really )

Postby Indy4570 » Mon Aug 19, 2019 6:43 pm



mine, not so pretty, someday.... I do have a windshield frame for it
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