300 power steering

Caselogik · May 1, 2016

I just got an old jd 300 garden tractor! I've read about power steering conversions but I have a different idea:

Use my front hydraulic ports to power a steering cylinder....steer with the stick!

Anyone have some input? Cons.....complications?

Bob · May 1, 2016

Back a while a bought and old road grader that had been set up that way.

It was REALLY awkward.

So I "improved" it by installing a power steering gear.

Didn't realize 'til I was done that it was geared BACKWARD for the application, steering left turned the wheels to the right. I actually run it a little that way.

My "Improvement" was REALLY REALLY awkward!

Tx Jim · May 2, 2016

Way back in the 60's the JD dealer where I was employed converted a JD MI tractor to have an A frame sticking out the frt with a pto driven winch for picking up farm equipment that had been converted to power steering via a hyd cylinder & spool valve. Once the operator got acquainted with the steering it was easy to drive.

I drove it several times on the city streets in high gear,max engine rpm's from dealership to railroad dock to unload new JD equipment.

Have you considered looking for a junk JD 318 with factory power steering to be a donor?

PJH · May 2, 2016

A friend has a Ford 5000 that had left handed steering. He always cautioned everyone to stop and think it over real good at the ends of the field. He used that tractor like that for 20 years, then one of our neighbors, who was a retired IH engineer, rigged up a hydraulic steering system for it like Tim S. put on his MFWD JD 60. It made a pretty nice tractor out of it, but it was getting pretty well worn out by then. He still has it, but it mostly sits. There's lots of funny stories about Tom's left handed Ford 5000. Both of my sons worked for him and ran that thing. Thankfully, no physical injuries - sometimes injured pride, tho, ha.

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