Deck adjustment lever, newer style

We sold a 310 this morning with a plow that didn't have an height adjustment knob setup like a lot of them do. I looked at Toro parts and it costs about 120.00 plus freight to buy the parts to do it, just the casting and bolt were 83.00 plus freight. I told him we would make one, and as long as we're making one we'll have a kit and parts available in the store. I think we can do a heavier duty complete kit for around 80.00.

It will have plenty of steel and we're gonna increase the "L" bolt from 7/16 to 1/2" thread. Will keep everyone updated. Here's the rough draft.

Looks stronger than OEM

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The pipe insert has to be moved back about 1/4", other than that all is good.

We made the pattern for the main bracket minus the pipe hole and located a J bolt that would work today. The new bolt is 1/2" instead of 7/16", is 3/4" shorter, and has less threads but more than it needs. I thought the original bolt was too long and had too many threads sticking out, probably because it was right off the shelf like they did most things. Not a bad thing, we're just trying to improve on it. If we're gonna build one we'll make it a little heavier and make it look a little better. We're also on to a knob like the original only with a 1/2" brass insert and a 2 3/8" diameter instead if the 1 3/4" original diameter. Heavier is better right lol, no comebacks on this piece for sure.

I like overbuilt stuff

We found a knob exactly like the original, only it has the 1/2" threads we need. This is the sample we got yesterday.


We also got a sample of another one we're working on...

:smile2 nice...........................are you going to have a cookout sometime before the spring show.?

have you picked up the horse haulers yet? :smile2 :pics1

Probably won't have a cookout before the show, it will be here before we know it and we're terribly behind. We just got back with the limos... :rolling

Geno wrote: Probably won't have a cookout before the show, it will be here before we know it and we're terribly behind. We just got back with the limos... :rolling

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