Skid Steer Motor Swap A Snap

Skid Steer Motor Swap A Snap TRACTORS Skid Steer Loaders 27-4-38 Replacing a fried engine on his Owatonna skid steer loader was a snap for Brent Norton, Lodi, Ohio, who replaced the original engine with a 24 hp Onan engine. The biggest problem he had was matching the crankshaft on the engine to the shaft on his skid steer. It turned out to be simple to resolve. "I laid two pieces of 1 by 1-in. rebar stock parallel across the frame and then set the motor on it," he says. "Then I shimmed the motor up until the shafts matched and then bolted the engine down to the frame and double nutted it. It locked the rebar and the shims in place." Because 2-cyl. engines are noted for backpressure, Norton modified the exhaust system from a single stack to a double stainless steel pipe. He notes that the double stack has kept the motor running cooler. The only other modification he had to make was to run an extension made from coolant hose from the original air cooler to the new carburetor. Norton uses his skid steer primarily for snow moving and for forklift work. After getting it running again, he cut a manure fork bucket apart and rebuilt it with pallet forks. This allows him to use the unit to store pallets of items on shelves in his barn. Contact FARM SHOW Followup, Brent Norton, 8389 Congress Road, Lodi, Ohio 44254 (ph330 948-3307).

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