Buddy, We noticed that as well when we were first started planning our conversion. Have decided to weld some sections of tube steel onto the adapter plate and use it to help support the brush end of the motor as well (not unlike the one at Sunrise).
-Tom On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Buddy Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > I have restored a few ICE tractors. In all the ones I have done, real > tractors, the motor and transmission is part, if not all of the chassis. > If > you remove the motor you will lose a lot of support. Are you planned on > using the existing motor somehow to retain the chassis support? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Steve Clunn > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EVDL] tractor conversion > > FROM: Willie2 <[email protected]> > > > <Very enticing! > > Steve Clunn has been wanting to convert a tractor for me and I've been > reluctant so far.> > > I am working out here in B/CS Texas on the 18 Wheeler Project and the > Electrician has a tractor he is thinking of having me convert. Life is > funny, I was excited about the 18 Wheeler Project, but when he brought the > tractor over with a blown diesel motor, it looked like the "PERFECT" > candidate. http://www.greenshedconversions.com/Pages/Projects.aspx > From what I have read about this tractor online, adding 600lbs would be a > good thing. The 18 Wheeler Project is progressing, s l o w l y. The > Customers favorite words are..." Make it BEEFY"... LOL > > -- > Steve Clunn > Merging the best of the past with > the best of the future. > www.Greenshedconversions.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140121/48063627 > /attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140121/09c5ecd9/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
