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bigkenroberts
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There is a picture of a 17 GTH-L in this post "17GTH-L Finally got it home" down below. Is the front frame a wrap-around solid piece like on my 716H or is this an (engineered ?) bolt-together composite like in the dime-store tractors. Or is the big piece on the front a "bumper" over top of the wrap around. I like the solid piece wrap-around. Maybe over-engineered, but it is solid and handles a johnny-bucket real well.
bigkenroberts
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OK - no responses. I'll drive down tomorrow and check it out myself. Or can anyone direct me to a close-up front frame picture to save me 30 miles each way.
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Same as your 716, they did make the newer frames 'not as thick' in that area. B.R.
bigkenroberts
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Thanx Ron. Yea - the newer frames are "engineered" and have varying thickness and heights along the side to match calculated stresses. This means that they are also bolt-together because the pieces are different. I didn't know when they made the change-over in the Soverign (GTH - now Legacy I think) series. Thanx again.
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I found this pic of what is supposed to be a on ebay, of a GTH-L and (if it is truely a GTH-L), this is basically the same as what you have. I'm just saying the frame is the same as what you have, but the thickness of the steel plate on some of the earlier models from the rear of the engine (eyeballing for comparison) was 1/4" plate on the earlier models. Somewhere along the line (around 1978-80) the plate they used was 3/16" or a little smaller gauge. Anyway you look at it, if the tractor looks like the one in the pic or has the same, basic frame design, it is in the same frame family as your 716, not one of the cheap tractor with stamped metal frames. B.R.[img]/club2/attach/bIGGIE_rAT/gth-l.jpg[/img]
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