Time for a new update since we had a company wide snow day today that gave me plenty of time to work on the loader. I spent most all day inside out of the 14 inches of snow we got and slaved away making new parts and pieces for the loader. I've almost got this loader up and running for good this time. Fitting all the new goodies in it has been fun and quite a challenge considering the minimal space I've got and what I'm trying to stick in it such as the hydraulic system, two gear motors for the track drives, a hydraulic pump fan, two batteries, and hopefully if I can get ones sometime a servonaut SMX to make this machine come alive.
Anyways I got to whittling away at some fresh metal today and thought I should post up some pics of the new pieces I made.
I started out making new motor mounts for the drive motors so I can easily switch them out if need be. I didn't want to go too light on the mounts so they got about 4 hours of attention. Here are a few pics of what I did.
I wanted something removable and strong so these are what I was able to come up with.
Tyler