[Ambush]

I got a 38" A2 tiller with the 149 a few years ago, but no mule drive, belts or corner drive gear box. After pricing out all the stuff, lack of availability and the fact that I already had a new 14 hp motor on hand, I set it up as self powered. And that's been working well. I was having the problem of the bearing carriers coming lose on the tine shaft. So I hatched a plan in my head to put outboard bearings on that shaft. This past week the plan got out of my head and onto the work bench.

Earlier in the summer I had scrapped an old MTD tiller and saved the tine mount shaft, tine hubs and the best tines. Also the shroud which was twelve gauge steel. As rarely happens a lot of that salvaged material lined up perfectly for my project. The shafts and hubs are 1 1/4" just like the IH tiller. Unbelievably and by total fluke even every hole that I thought I'd have to drill was in the right place and right size!!

I'll add pics from my phone of the progress so far. When this part of the project is done, I'll be figuring out a way to mount the tiller to the sleeve hitch so I don't have to remove the hitch and then fight the tillers arms into place. PITA.