Info needed on Cub Lo Boy

What models were made and what years? HP? And other stats.

Have located a non runnable one abandoned in old farmstead. Want to make an offer.

A good restoration project maybe. This one is a 185

Thx in advance for any info you might have.

Greenfrog:

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Thank you very much.

Might want to investigate the clutch.
They seem to be a real pain to fix when needed vs the next generation 184.

Most were built to only mow the lawn with a belly mower.

3-point hitch was optional, creeper gear optional, odd speed and reverse rotation pto, etc.

This freaky clutch set up is not like the regular Cub clutches.The clutch disk and pressure plate with all the other works is located at the front of the transmission and has a long drive shaft with a plate bolted to the flywheel and a splined end at the rear for the clutch disk.That shaft cost me $146.00 in l985. The clutch fork Very much needs to be kept adjusted to work right and the clutch brake is very necessary for this set up.


The clutch in the tractor I had was very touchy to adjust and keep working right and very expensive and aggravating to repair and keep working right for more than a couple of times. BTDT and they didn't give me a tee shirt either, just a big bill for the parts. The one I had needed the clutch adjusted about every 5th or 6th time you used it and the clutch brake is very hard to keep working correct so you can shift gears with out tearing the trasmission up.

On the one that I had and I surely do not want another one. The pto shaft was an 1,800 rpm reverse rotation 15/16 inch diameter and had 15 splines and implements like a mower had to be specfic for it.

Oops. wRONG this is a 154. Earlier model. What do we know about this? 1968 year I think

Mr. R. Bidell. Thanks. You have helped me out before. I took a closer look. This is a 154

Greenfrog:

Thanks. You have helped me out before. I took a closer look. This is a 154

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You are welcome.

Think the one Dad bought was a 154, last thing he did to it was have the pto clutch rebuilt for $400 then he sold it for $1300. It had a 60 inch mower I think, mowed nice as long as you didn't let the grass get long.
I bought a refurbished 982 Cub Cadet, the Onan was over-hauled, 4 new tires, new paint, had all the options, cat O 3-pt, rear pto, frt aux remotes, steering brakes, 50 deck, the tractor was bullet-proof, till the steering gearbox needed rebuilding, I wish somebody would have shot a 30-06 thru that Onan! SO MANY stupid engineering things done in that B48-G, let's put the ignition points & cendensor INSIDE the engine crankcase so the points can get oil soaked, I removed points soaked in oil a couple times. Let's mount a plastic finger wheel on a machined hub on the camshaft drive gear so as the engine warms up the finger wheel stops turning and the governor stops working, won't increase the throttle when even the slightest increase in load, I'd increase throttle by hand then when load decreased the engine over-reved, and with Onan's fragile rods I instantly had to lower speed. I Never mowed wide open, only about 2/3rds throttle. It took a while but I did get the IH 50 deck to mow well, even stripe the lawn.
The Onan made plenty of HP, burned plenty of gas too, was mowing the Back 40 that I had over-seeded when I fertilized that part of the yard the fall before, dumped 5 pounds of grass seed on top of 60# of fertilizer.
Was about July, I'm mowing along, look forward out over the hood and there's blue smoke blowing forward out of the grill where the hot cooling air escapes. The mule drive belt is slipping to the point of smoking but the engine wasn't dropping any rpm. Started taking half a swath after that pass. The new seeded grass was 18 inches tall, frt tires are 18-8.50x8's, easy to gage. I was trying to dial in my 10 Ohio Steel Fabrication mold boards plow on my Cat O to my home-made sleeve hitch adapter and I was watching my plowing depth behind me and didn't know when I tried to raise the plow I was raising the front end instead, I only got the frt tires 2 feet in the air. Plow was plowing about 7-8 inches deep.