Well I went and done it.

Adirondack case guy

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I have been pondering the idea of installing a RH door in the factory cab on the 931.
Yesterday afternoon while sitting in my pondering chair, the lightbulb came on. I checked out the RH window and sureenough it was exactly like the top of the LH door. All I had to do was cut the bottom RH side window panal out of the cab and I had a door opening. It took me about 10mins to remove the panal with the 4.5" angle grinder. I'm now welding the lower panal to the window frame and fabing up some struts to mimick the ones welded into the LH door. This little project worked out to be quick and easy. Allready talked to Bro., and he is diging me put another Allen cab latch and handle assy from a combine cab for the 931.
The brake pedals may be a stumble point, but not much worse than the clutch pedal on the other side.
Tomarrow I will move on to building two sets of steps to get into the tractor. The factory steps on the LH side left a bit to be desired. I also fabed up a pair of light buckets which bolt to the lower front corners of the cab.
Loren
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Guess there is a first for everything.... Looks good from here. Don't trip over those brake pedals
 
I like it, Loren your pondering chair works. Years back I seen a fella do the same thing to a 1370, but his job was very crude. We know when you are finished that cab will be better than new, Rod.
 
Rod, thanks for the complement. This little project was so simple after the light bulb lit!!! This new door shuts better than the original one, but the LH did have a previous wound.
Pic tonight with all the struts tack welded in place. Will do the final welds and finish tomarrow, so it is ready for paint.
Loren
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Loren ,
Was wondering ... How do you make such great circles ?? and do you have a paint booth or something ?? just wondering how you get such a good paint jobs on things ..

Enjoy your pictures and the things that I can only dream of doing ...,,,,, mark
 
Mark, I fabed the modifications with 14 gage sheet metal. My forming tools are simple. Cup saws, Jigsaw with metal cutting blade for the lights, a 4.5" grinder with HF cutoff wheels and a Loncoln mig welder. My bends are made by grinding a recess in the back side of the steel with the grinder and cutoff wheel and then clamping the steel between two peices of angle iron into my vice on the welding table and then beating and leveraging the bends to where I want them. No high priced fabrication equipment here.
Loren
 
Back about a dozen years ago my son put double rear doors in a school bus he was helping his buddy convert to a camper. They needed a wide door to winch a jet ski on a trailer up a ramp into the back. They trailered a second jet ski behind it. They got a second door from a guy that raced school busses. It wasn't a spectacular, job, but it satisfied the owner and was a relatively inexpensive conversion. After they got where they were going, they threw a mattress on the floor where the jet ski was riding. I was pretty impressed how things turned out. He was a good carpenter for his age, but not much experience in metal working.
 
That's a heck of a fab job. Looks like a factory RH door and the added lighting is gonna pay dividends in the field. Did you notice a loss of rigidity or flex in the front cab panel now that the lower bracing is part of the RH door?

Jay
 
I don't think that I compromised any real strength in the cab. It is far from being a ROPS structure. The lower window panal was 18 gage steel spotwelded into the cab frame. I didn't have to cut any of the cab framework.
Loren
 
Hokie Smokes!!! That looks really good. Makes access to a lot of things easier AND, always need another door..... :D ..Kenny
 

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