I got my 1000 overhaul done today! Way back in 1978, when my wife and I moved into our new home, we bought a new Cub Cadet 1000, along with wheel weights, chains, a 38" mower deck, and a grader blade. We used it mainly for grass mowing, with a little bid of gravel and snow pushing as the need arose. After many years the mower deck basically wore out. Around that time my brother-in-law had a 1200 with a newly-overhauled engine that he wanted to get rid of because it needed some work (due to two teenage sons who basically beat it to death), and he didn't want to fool any more, so he gave it to me. I fixed the most pressing things, and we continued mowing with it up until this year when that mower deck started to go bad. In the meantime I used the 1000 with the grader blade until the engine blew.
At this point we bought a new XT-2 with a Kawasaki engine and a 48" fabricated deck.
But now I had two 1978 Cub Cadet tractors, one with a good chassis but a blown engine and the other with a good strong engine but a chassis that was falling apart.
What was one to do? Frankentractor! I stripped 'em both down and built one good tractor out of the best parts from both.
One issue that I consider the Achilles Heel of these Quiet Line tractors was the iso-mounted engine and the flex clutch driver disk. Due to the constant squirming around that engine did on those iso-mounts, the center of the clutch driver disk would fatigue and fail. I replaced several of these over the years, and it was a real pain-in-the-butt to do. I resolved that during this project I would use solid mounts and an old-style clutch driver disk from a 108.
Here's a picture of the Quiet Line clutch driver on the left with the old-style driver disk on the right. You can see where the flex disk has the center machined out of it and a piece of spring steel riveted on, whereas the old style has the disk made of a solid piece of steel.
Hopefully this will be a solid assembly that will last.
I didn't take a pic of the solid motor mounts, but they are a direct replacement for the rubber iso mounts. I bought them from Jeff Derstine, who I located from this site. Work great - Thanks, Jeff.
I bought the 108 clutch driver disk from Chris Westfall of Cub Classics.