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G Taylor
04-20-2003 12:40:48
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Re: Re: Re: JD 70 pony motor replacement with electric start? in reply to Paul Clawson, 04-20-2003 09:13:59
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By the time you purchase the charging upgrades, re-wire, two very large batteries which will be replaced every couple of years, the 24V battery box, bracket,starter, HD cables, starting engine block off plates. You will be in over the price of the starting engine. Around here a running starting engine brings more bucks than a dash missing levers and the typical tinker's in a hurry conversion. If you still insist on going ahead at least keep all the parts in a sturdy box, well labelled in safe clean dry place. I keep finding tractors that "run good" but are missing a fortune in fenders, pto parts, three point hitch parts, sheet metal and starting engines. The old timer or the heir$ of the e$tate have no idea where the part$ went, parts are rusted to bits in the mud behind the shed or just plain lost. They get pretty irate when the offered price for the tractor is cut several thousand from what they seen in magazines and newspaper ads. They always answer, "but it runs good and that stuff don't cost much." If the 70D is a working tractor, the conversion money would be better spent on a 50-65 HP 20,30,40 or 50 series Mannheim built tractor brought state side from Canada.
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