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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Scratch-Built Model John DeereBy Stan Black408 Birchwood Ct. Modesto, California 95350 Robbie giving her the gas in Grandpa's backyard. These are photos of the John Deere I scratch built for my grandkids after I retired in the spring of 1995. It is powered by a 14 CC Ward's Weed Eater engine. The drive is via a cogged belt from a centrifugal clutch on the engine, to a small zero-max gear box. The tractor has four shift speeds on one lever and a second lever is for forward, neutral and reverse. The body I fashioned using fiberglass. I used 16-inch bike rims and tires for the rear wheels, with ¼-inch round spokes and hubs I turned. The front wheels are eight-inch lawn mower wheels. The seat started its life as a pie pan. It is cushioned with a V. W. valve spring. The steering wheel was a 6-inch milling machine hand wheel, with an aluminum spinner knob added. ... 807 of 1299 characters shown.
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