HY Kit Fitment

[Thegearhead0324 1,858]

Good morning everyone. I just purchased a HY kit, probably over payed, but I saw it and noticed everything looked like it was there. I’ve always wanted to make my 1257 hydro lift. Description stated it will need a rebuild, I think @wheelhorseman sells these kits? Possibly new hoses as well? I’ve seen a few folks on here who have put them on their tractors with some modifications like shifter and mounting and cylinder, engine pulley/pto, and such, mostly intrigued about how to put some kind of double pulley behind the pto?. I guess I’m just asking for some suggestions and what you’ve done to make it all work. Thank you. 

Edited yesterday at 06:19 PM by Thegearhead0324

[adsm08 5,203]

My 855 came to me with one of these on it. I'm not sure how to set up your pulley at the engine since the K181 is pretty different from the 10 and 12HP engines.

 

I will say that the hoses from WheelHorsePartsandmore are a little problematic with a manual transmission. Unless I remove the shifter knob they interfere with being able to use 2nd gear, and are still hair short, meaning I had to do some abrasion mitigation at the edge of the fender pan.

 

The originals were hose crimped onto brake line and much thinner than the ones Lowell sells, which is why his can be an issue. The originals were also not built as robustly.

[953 nut 69,825]

@WHX?? and @sqrlgtr should be able to shed some light on the situation. They both have HY on their 1257s.

 

[Thegearhead0324 1,858]

I appreciate the reply’s back, in the middle of doing leaves this morning I was eyeballing my tractor and I think I may have figured out the pulley/pto situation, as I don’t want to hack and disturb too much, we will see. I won’t be starting this project for a bit since I bought the HY unit online and waiting to be shipped to me. Also I will be needing to rebuild it before mounting to the tractor. 

[adsm08 5,203]

When you buy the seal kit get extra pulley shaft seals. They are hard to install and easy to damage.

[sqrlgtr 4,100]

5 hours ago, 953 nut said:

@WHX?? and @sqrlgtr should be able to shed some light on the situation. They both have HY on their 1257s.

 

2 owners one mochine. @WHX?? is the one who adapted the HY2 unit to the 1257, all Ive done is use it. Was my bestest snow pusher last winter and would be hard to go back to manual lift now. I did make a

new handle for lift, had a custom decal from redo your horse made and rebent the shifter for it though. Here is a few pics that might help ya along the way.