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Good eyes! And my call is KE8QOC. - 73
New RTV X1140 wheels, tires, lift questions
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tfdr1
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Hunter15, sorry for the slow reply! I flew down to Miami to some fishing with a buddy in his ultra rare Comanche 400. Anyway, the machine runs flawlessly. I have zero complaints on the turbo. I have put right at 154.4 hours and 743 miles on the turbo. I am about an hour away from doing my 200 hour service on it. Although I know I can turn the fuel rack up more and tighten the wastegate to make more boost, I am pretty comfortable in where things are at. If I run wide open full throttle down the road for 10 miles my EGT's never get above 1050-1100 degrees running 8-9 PSI of boost, and the pyrometer is in front of the turbo. I have a field that is over 1 mile long and when it's wet and sloppy the engine works harder than on the road and if I run wide open for a mile through that, I can see EGT's around 1250-1300 degrees at 9-10 PSI of boost which is still safe in my opinion.
My one comlpaint, although a small one is that my 30" tires do rub a bit here and there especially when loaded heavy or with 4 adults in rough terrain. It was not intially like this but I think my coilovers have softened up now that they are "broke in". I plan to remedy this this winter by making a steel wheel well extension. I really only need 3/4 of an inch more room to fully clear the big lugs on these tires. I plan on cutting the the plastic wheel wells about 5 inches up from the bottom of the frame. Removing some of the steel square tubing in the battery tray area and welding in sheet metal in the void at a slight angle. Then bolt the remaining part of the plastic wheel well to that sheet metal instead of the sqaure tube it is bolted to now. That should get me plenty of room for full payload capacity and suspension articulation. I could have done it by now but it's not that bad and just figured I'd wait until a nice snowy weekend to get it done.
As for a video, I will try to get one this weekend. Thanks for the question!
My one comlpaint, although a small one is that my 30" tires do rub a bit here and there especially when loaded heavy or with 4 adults in rough terrain. It was not intially like this but I think my coilovers have softened up now that they are "broke in". I plan to remedy this this winter by making a steel wheel well extension. I really only need 3/4 of an inch more room to fully clear the big lugs on these tires. I plan on cutting the the plastic wheel wells about 5 inches up from the bottom of the frame. Removing some of the steel square tubing in the battery tray area and welding in sheet metal in the void at a slight angle. Then bolt the remaining part of the plastic wheel well to that sheet metal instead of the sqaure tube it is bolted to now. That should get me plenty of room for full payload capacity and suspension articulation. I could have done it by now but it's not that bad and just figured I'd wait until a nice snowy weekend to get it done.
As for a video, I will try to get one this weekend. Thanks for the question!
Smilingreen
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Dave again and mine is KJ4BLG.There's a few of us radio geeks in here.
Dave -KB1PVH
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Here is a walkaround video of the machine running if you are interested.
Damn. I thought I had adding things to my machine but that's whole new level.
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Thanks bczoom! Wether it's my Kubota, my truck, golf cart, tractors, guns, chainsaws, home, land, etc., I must customize it to make it my own. I can't stop. It's probably some diagnosable obsessive compulsive disorder but that is for another forum! The biggest problem I run into, especially with the Kubota now, is I run out of things to do to it. Really the only thing left to do on the Kubota is to fabricate new rear fenders/wheel wells. I'm pretty sure I will remove the factory plastic ones and fabricate some steel ones this winter to alleviate the slight rub I get with the huge lugs on those tires when loaded heavy. After that, unfortunately, I will have to find a new project to tinker with.