(12-12-2016, 02:39 PM)darrenjlobb Wrote: Not know anyone local with a tractor or something? Guess not where you live hmmm, If it was me, id just make the mounts up myself with 10-20mm sheet steel, just due to the custom nature of it, would have thought finding something totally bolt on for a conversion like this would be unlikely? But appreciate that isnt something thats as easy for you to do. We put two mounts on the motor and two on the transmission when we put it in a landrover, and havent had any problems with it at all to this day, just make sure mounts are good and stout, and rubbers are beefy, as the motor weighs a tonne and will sway with torque big time!
Will be epic when its done, motors will pull from anywhere!
Believe it or not I do know someone with a tractor, there is a bloke across the road (on my quiet and very residential street) who owns a mint restored tractor (don't know what it is) but sadly it doesn't have forks or anything on the front. I don't know anyone else local with anything suitable. Gutted as if I was still in London I know a couple of people who own horse riding stables and thus have suitable tractors.
I have considered making the engine mounts but to do that I'd need to have the engine in and out a dozen times plus the cost of the steel, plus not having a welder that can weld metal that thick (obviously I could tack it and then pay someone to weld) plus getting rubbers and my inability to accurately measure and then cut anything. It just makes sense for me to blow a few hundred quid on mounts that will fit and work and not fall apart or give up at an inconvenient moment and save me alot of work.
The gearbox mounts I can do myself as I can support the gearbox from above and then work on it from underneath using some 3mm wall box. Also I can't find a suitable ready made mount.
(12-12-2016, 03:52 PM)welshpug Wrote: Indeed, get it dangling in the hole and get some C.A.D on the go.
(cardboard aided design)
And after CAD you gotta get MAD
(MDF Aided Design)