Mark's 2011 Modxr Craftsman

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This is my 2011 craftsman modxr. It's a little on the heavy side but it ran up front all year


The chassis

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Here's some steering pics. I make all my own parts.





The knuckle on the steering rod is a impact swivel. It worked ok for the first half of the year but need to be changed out due to slop. I end up going with a more expensive unit.

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Underside

Clutch

Brakes: 10" Aluminum disk. It worked well but I had the wrong pads for Aluminum and the disk was chewed up by the end of the year.


Fitting the sheet metal.  I used a modified step thru fenders on a box chassis for this one.

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Done


Just be fore I took the checkered flag

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I WATCHED YOU RACE THAT ALL YEAR AND WHAT A RIDE!

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It did go pretty well, to bad the motor finally gave out at the finals and I got a DNS

They don't run to well when they look like this

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THAT HURT. HOPE THATS FIXED NOW.

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All fixed now. I had another Tecumseh block that had thrown a rod so we used that one. Honed the cylinder and did a valve job an where good to go!

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And here's what it looks like today. A few more things to remove and it's going to the scrap yard.

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CUT CHOP AND REBUILD, NO SCRAP YARD.

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I would of like to cut and chop this one. But it was just to darn heavy. At the end of last year I had a hard time keeping up with the MTD's With all the new mowers coming into this class I don't think it would of been competitive. The Murray we are building will be a lot lighter.