This is a series of videos showing my journey toward building a custom 4x4 Cub Cadet lawn tractor
Curated by: Bill Bayer (108 videos)
Slow progress continues on the steering. The new roller bearing on the crossbar is much better than the spherical bearing that was in there but there is still lost motion in the steering. From what I could tell it was coming from either some play between the bolt and the bearing or the bearing and the crossbar itself. Either way, it's not good. I have a couple options. One is a $12 bearing that goes in a machined block welded to the crossbar. The other involves completely remaking the crossbar to accept tapered roller bearings. I'm going to go with the $12 option for now. If that doesn't work then I'll try something else. Another problem is there's a little bit of binding on the actuator rod end. This binding is the reason I had a spherical bearing in the first place. I need to somehow mount a heim joint to the crossbar. The other option, the one I REALLY would prefer, is to cut the end off of the actuator rod and drill and tap it for a heim joint. That would fix the binding issue for sure. I sent an email to Servocity asking how much trouble it is taking the rod out. If I don't get a reply I'll just take it apart and go from there. The majority of my weekend was manually top-balancing a bunch of batteries in my home solar system. Thanks for watching, Bill