By
Anthony Wendover
So i have finally just about finished my trial of converting my 312-8 into a hydro. I started this project at the end of November because i was tired of blowing tons of snow with the 8 speed and riding the clutch as well as having to manually move the blower up and down. I have had a GT-1800 that was my grandfathers that the engine blew out of it in 2005. I was going to start a restoration on it back in 2009 and only got as far as a tear down. So i have had these parts stored and moved with me a few times over the year. So i decided to take the parts from that and mock this up. I worked three days on this and ended up getting very sick and it got to cold to work out in the garage with no heat source so it has sat till yesterday. Right now this will be my mowing machine as is until i finish my 500 that i am freshening up. After that is done ill tear this back down and clean and paint things back up. Ok now picture time!
Below is what i took of doing the tear down to the chassis and removing the transaxle. The pictures look correct on my computer not sure why they some are sideways.