1960 suburban choke and throttle assembly?

[clueless 2,910]

It's been 10+years ago, there was a guy who sold the two lever C&T assemblies he made, anybody know who it was?  Anybody got a repoped one or an original?

[ri702bill 7,443]

How old a tractor are we talking about?? Early 1960's?? Straight push / pull on choke and push / pull turn to lock on the throttle?? A picture would help...

[wallfish 16,004]

2 hours ago, clueless said:

It's been 10+years ago, there was a guy who sold the two lever C&T assemblies he made, anybody know who it was?  Anybody got a repoped one or an original?

That was @rwilson but he hasn't been on here for a very long time. And only made a few.

[Racinbob 10,406]

Do you have any of the pieces that you could save? It really isn't difficult to make but having parts sure helps. I was lucky to start with this:

 

 

I had one lever, the top plate and the bottom bracket which would be the hardest to make. :

 

I made a jig to copy the levers, cleaned up the bracket, flipped the top plate over and the magic of Terry's decals:

 

 

He put 'Suburban 400' where the missing serial # should be. If I did it again I would have removed the 'OFF' on the decal. I simply forgot. That was Wheel Horses not so good at killing the engine at the time.

[clueless 2,910]

4 hours ago, Racinbob said:

Do you have any of the pieces that you could save? It really isn't difficult to make but having parts sure helps. I was lucky to start with this:

 

 

I had one lever, the top plate and the bottom bracket which would be the hardest to make. :

 

I made a jig to copy the levers, cleaned up the bracket, flipped the top plate over and the magic of Terry's decals:

 

 

He put 'Suburban 400' where the missing serial # should be. If I did it again I would have removed the 'OFF' on the decal. I simply forgot. That was Wheel Horses not so good at killing the engine at the time.

Bob, I have a complete original one I'm just not good at fabricating, I thought I'd check first before taking it to a local guy. Also after looking, the one on my rusted out 603 carcass my be the same one. 

[clueless 2,910]

19 hours ago, ri702bill said:

How old a tractor are we talking about?? Early 1960's?? Straight push / pull on choke and push / pull turn to lock on the throttle?? A picture would help...

1960 suburban 400.

[Racinbob 10,406]

29 minutes ago, clueless said:

Bob, I have a complete original one I'm just not good at fabricating, I thought I'd check first before taking it to a local guy. Also after looking, the one on my rusted out 603 carcass my be the same one. 

 

If you have a complete original what parts would you need to fabricate? Really there's only the bottom bracket and the levers. Picture? 

Edited April 28 by Racinbob

[ri702bill 7,443]

1 hour ago, Racinbob said:

 

If you have a complete original what parts would you need to fabricate? Really there's only the bottom bracket and the levers. Picture? 

Still need-um Picture............

[clueless 2,910]

2 hours ago, Racinbob said:

 

If you have a complete original what parts would you need to fabricate? Really there's only the bottom bracket and the levers. Picture? 

The one I have is on my completed 400, I'm in the process of doing another one. I've got 95% of what I need, just need a couple of hard to find parts, this being one.

[clueless 2,910]

45 minutes ago, ri702bill said:

Still need-um Picture............

Not sure why you need pictures, it's a 1960 suburban 400, the only year they came with that T&C assembly.

[Racinbob 10,406]

41 minutes ago, clueless said:

Not sure why you need pictures, it's a 1960 suburban 400, the only year they came with that T&C assembly.

I was just curious as to the condition of it. If you're in no rush I could make another pair of levers for you. 

[clueless 2,910]

1 hour ago, Racinbob said:

I was just curious as to the condition of it. If you're in no rush I could make another pair of levers for you. 

So Bob, I meant to answer ri702bill question. I do appreciate you offer though.

[oliver2-44 8,910]

23 hours ago, Racinbob said:

 

I had one lever, the top plate and the bottom bracket which would be the hardest to make. :

I made a jig to copy the levers

@Racinbob Any pictures of your jig would be appreciated 

[Racinbob 10,406]

2 hours ago, oliver2-44 said:

@Racinbob Any pictures of your jig would be appreciated 

 

I don't know Jim. It's pretty high tech.

 

 

The hard part was holding them (hot!). This allowed me to bolt them together in the center only and keep the new steel lined up with the one original I had. The holes in the block clear the bolt. I'm sure there's better mousetraps to be made but this did the trick for me.