bricooper78
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Well I've finally put the order in for a snow blade for this little D110, and I needed to drop the deck (actually I don't believe it's a must, but saves some weight, I'm fat... and it'll gain some ground clearance, and I need to sharpen the blades,etc) and get the front bumper back off it so I can get the mount fitted.
BUT, why oh why would I do something, without "extra needed accessory mods"?? Good question, I'm NOT just adding a blade without needed accessory mods!
Step 1. Add a small ($20 at the walmart) yellow strobe for the butt-end so hopefully I don't get
(1) Ran over in the street plowing in front of the house and/or
(2) Ticketed for slow moving equipment without safety warning devices on the road. We have to have flags on mopeds around here, so I'm guessing this thing may need some form of a brake/running light or at least red rear facing light, and something to indicate it's slow moving and to watch out for it.
Anyways, pics ahoy!
Here's the deck on the floor of the barely larger than the mower shed it lives in. I couldn't figure out how to get the stupid PTO wire off.
PIctured there. it's easy. grab the rubber part and PULL BACK TOWARDS YOU, then the cable only slips out of that little channel. Took me a good 10 minutes of trying to find an explanation in the manual, or online, nothing.
That weird anged brass looking bar that connects to the front edge of the deck will come out towards the front of the mower, you just have to TETRIS it through the hole. And cuss a little bit.
FREEDOM!!
Look how dirty that is. geesh I shouldn't have taken pics of that lol
There's the light. Cig plug with a switch. Cheap, easy. Actually has white LEDS inside, dunno why they didn't do yellow, as yellow LEDS would've been brighter through the lens, lenses filter the colors except for the color of the lens, so I'm not sure of why they made that choice, but it's their baby, and it's bright enough for what I'm going to do I'm sure.
Okay, so all I did was used a quick connect (3M) on a powerline after the fuse that sits next to the battery, so it would be fused with the rest of the mower. Faster, easier than doing an "add a fuse" IMO. Same basic result. And I'm kind of thinking I'm going to add some rear "running" lights, so I'll be replacing this wire over the summer anyway.
I used the ground side of the battery, just made a little jumper. Here again, once I figure out the rear lights, I'll devise a better plan. This works great for all I need right now.
Used that little bracket bolt to hold on the $7 add a cig plug from O'reilly, and hooked up the 2 wires. Ran the plug and wire from the light down the hole under the seat, fished it along the underside, brought it back up under the hood and plugged it in. All I have to do is open the hood, tap the switch, and then head off pushing snow, hopefully without cussing at it too much!
BUT, why oh why would I do something, without "extra needed accessory mods"?? Good question, I'm NOT just adding a blade without needed accessory mods!
Step 1. Add a small ($20 at the walmart) yellow strobe for the butt-end so hopefully I don't get
(1) Ran over in the street plowing in front of the house and/or
(2) Ticketed for slow moving equipment without safety warning devices on the road. We have to have flags on mopeds around here, so I'm guessing this thing may need some form of a brake/running light or at least red rear facing light, and something to indicate it's slow moving and to watch out for it.
Anyways, pics ahoy!
Here's the deck on the floor of the barely larger than the mower shed it lives in. I couldn't figure out how to get the stupid PTO wire off.
PIctured there. it's easy. grab the rubber part and PULL BACK TOWARDS YOU, then the cable only slips out of that little channel. Took me a good 10 minutes of trying to find an explanation in the manual, or online, nothing.
That weird anged brass looking bar that connects to the front edge of the deck will come out towards the front of the mower, you just have to TETRIS it through the hole. And cuss a little bit.
FREEDOM!!
Look how dirty that is. geesh I shouldn't have taken pics of that lol
There's the light. Cig plug with a switch. Cheap, easy. Actually has white LEDS inside, dunno why they didn't do yellow, as yellow LEDS would've been brighter through the lens, lenses filter the colors except for the color of the lens, so I'm not sure of why they made that choice, but it's their baby, and it's bright enough for what I'm going to do I'm sure.
Okay, so all I did was used a quick connect (3M) on a powerline after the fuse that sits next to the battery, so it would be fused with the rest of the mower. Faster, easier than doing an "add a fuse" IMO. Same basic result. And I'm kind of thinking I'm going to add some rear "running" lights, so I'll be replacing this wire over the summer anyway.
I used the ground side of the battery, just made a little jumper. Here again, once I figure out the rear lights, I'll devise a better plan. This works great for all I need right now.
Used that little bracket bolt to hold on the $7 add a cig plug from O'reilly, and hooked up the 2 wires. Ran the plug and wire from the light down the hole under the seat, fished it along the underside, brought it back up under the hood and plugged it in. All I have to do is open the hood, tap the switch, and then head off pushing snow, hopefully without cussing at it too much!
