Easy as 123
 

So I'm officially addicted now and even though I have a 73 in a million pieces, I now have a 123 under my belt as of this weekend. No implements but a couple cool options including hydraulic lift and lights. I'm assuming that I'm missing the bottom 3 point pieces on the rear? Serial is 212895. it's in ok condition, got it running after cleaning up the points a few times and quick de clogging the carb but needs carb rebuild and it smokes pretty bad, will try to mix some MMO in the gas or other method to unstick the rings if that's what it is. Hydro was empty and rear cover leaks bad so I'm hopeful that it will move. Here it is.


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Congrats on the 123! Nice options!
It has the correct bottom piece for the 3 point.

Thanks for the advice. I can't wait to get some sort of rear attachment now. I'm amazed at the speed of the hydraulics, very fast.

ooh! nice find!

Great addition!!! I wish my 123 came with a hydraulic lift...I had to put $400 toward that option. Looks like you have a very nice new project on your hands that will soon become the prize of your collection!! Congratulations.

Cub Cadet 123

You did well Alvy,How hard was that to find?

Awesome score on your 123 with options!

Congrats on your new to you 123 :beerchug: Big score on the hydraulic lift, with
3pt. makes work seem like play:bigthink:
What's your plans for attachments?
Wouldn't be running it without hy-tran though, can't think that would be good for the pump.

nice 123 with nice options, looks good:beerchug:

Saw a 72 over the weekend at the Alley Park show in Lancaster, OH. It had the add-on hydro lift, 3 point, lights, creeper, rear weights and pto. And, yes, I have pics but have to reduce the size of them and will post in a separate thread, maybe can get to it tonight.

Well this one kinda fell in my lap Lew and was about a mile away from my house. Traded a bunch of stuff and some cash for it. Guy is a scrapper but saves old tractors and has a roper and a couple suburbans. Been working on getting it for a few months. Old cubs aren't as plentiful down here so I have to rely on you PA guys to send me some parts down. All in all I'm happy with it and really like it with the options.

Thanks Allen, get in touch with me if you come back to FL. I'd like to go to Stews place again, so many to see there it takes going twice to see it all!

Not sure about rear attachments since this part is new to me but I'm psyched to see what's out there, maybe a tiller or something. I'm going to be in the implement section for a while to learn what to look for. And yeah, I didn't run it for long at all just wanted to see if it ran, looks like its been years.

You got it! I'll definitely get up with you, next time we go to FL. :beerchug:

Well just a small update. Made a rear cover gasket and filled with hytran, and changed the filter which was the original yellow IH filter. It drives well but just takes off if you don't hold on the hydro lever. I'm assuming this is the infamous trunion repair that I've read a lot about here. Still smokes after I ran it quite a bit but smoking less and less so I'm optimistic, ran a lot of MMO through it. Has a governor issue with no throttle control above idle and it kinda runs away. Replaced and tightened a bunch of loose and missing bolts, also swapped the S/G from my in pieces 73 and it spins over a whole lot better but not charging still. Got a few more things to do to it and probably pull the motor soon because of the rear pulley that runs the hydraulic pump is a little loose and vibrates bad. I took a little break from all of the annoying little things that I "have" to do on it and found 12 volts to both headlamps but neither of them worked so a small trip to local parts store and grabbed some bulbs, PB blastered the wing nuts and thankfully the studs didn't break, new eyeballs installed, check!


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Thanks for the update! Looking good!

Love the headlights in post 15. Got to get some for my 122.

As far as the tow out on the drivers side wheel are you setting this up for the AMS race on Labor day weekend:beerchug:

Thanks for the update!

thanks for the updates:beerchug:

Thanks for the words guys. Took it for a ride tonight and things are looking ok. PTO clutch is working as it should which is a plus. Still a little bummed about 2 out of the three of my cubs are smokers but I will get to all of that. Nice to have this one running. RR tire opened up a big gash in it tonight and the dry rot has got the best of it. A buddy on here has a couple rear tires off of his O not being used so I am going to hopefully buy them from him. Set up the 73 frame and 42" deck shell on the sawhorses tonight so shifting gears a little bit.

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Well I'm back to the 123 again, just couldn't deal with the smoke anymore. I took the head off a while ago to check out what was going on and it seems the piston sat in the same spot for so long that the bore was rusted out where the rings landed plus the piston is damaged a lot from slap so I got the motor out this weekend and tore it down. The block is at the machine shop as we speak getting bored.

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Here's my modified pitman arm puller i use to pull PTO bearings

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Thanks for the update!

Nice work :beer2: