Mystery Tractor

For the past few years I've been playing with the B series garden tractors and the 700 series tractors. A few years back, I picked up a Tractor from one of my nephews neighbors pretty cheap. Brought it home and tarped it over behind the barn. Well, I wanted to bring it in the barn and check it out being I didn't have to much time at the time of purchase to look it over real close. This thing was painted  over sometime in its life so there isn't any badging on it. It does have the serial no tag though which says 654 002821. As I lifted the rear seat panel, to my surprise it has a giant pulley with a pretty serious looking drive belt going to it. This is the first time I see one of these puppies, so I'm not sure what I'm lookin' at. I went on Tractordata.com & started searchin to see what this thing is. I thought it might be a 3415, because I ID'd the engine and according to the Briggs ID numbers it's a 1971 15HP. (325431)  So now here is where the confusion starts. In the Tractordata site I see that a 3314V has a Simplicity number of 990654. Hmmm, that matches the 654 that's by itself on the serial tag on the machine before the real serial number 002821. The 3415S that I looked up has a serial number of 990758. So, I guess this is a 3314V? I don't know what the V means. I'm having problems trying to find what that represents. I guess maybe this Tractor got a 15HP engine put in it at sometime, or I'm missin' somethin' somewhere.  This also has the same lever on the side as my 716H. When you move it, there isn't much that moves out back probably because things get pretty rusty in these parts pretty quick!  Any help would be appreciated........Pic is blurry. It's not your eyes...  LOL!

Steve@B&B

Hey Mike, I got you jealous? I didn't even know what I had!  LMAO!!  Steve, thanks for the parts tree breakdown. I found that breakdown last night after dinner. That definitely confirms what I have here. After cleaning all the leaves and gunk around the base of the engine, I found shiny new engine mounting bolts. Musta' got another engine put in it sometime in its lifetime. All the oil and crud protected the bolts. I yanked the engine and cleaned the mouse condo in the blower housing. Man, was that packed tight! That was worst than the ole' Big 10 blower housing.  LOL!  This will be next years project after the Big 10 is done. I'll work on the engine for this thing this Winter in the wire shop.  I'll post a pic today of the whole thing. Thanks guys for the help!

Steve@B&B

Mike,

Has the hood. White in color with the checkerboard grille. Frame is Orange. Hood covers the Battery & fuel tank like a 700 series. According to the parts breakdown it's considered a Sovereign.  Didn't get a chance to take a pic of it today. I'll get a pic of it tomorrow....

I guess this is the "V" part. Variable speed....

I have a spare 700 hood. Maybe I could make a 715V.  How bout that Mike. Hey, I made a 714H out of a 716H........  LOL!  

Ross, nice 710! Is that yours?  Looks sweeeet!

Ross,

I did the exact same thing you did. On our 716H, I had a chrome extension on the muffler pipe to get the hot exhaust  away from the hood. You could see it in this pic of the wife plowin snow.  I used to just pull the extension off to open the hood. The wife had a ball on that thing plowing snow. For the 714H I'm just putting together, I'm gonna order an "S" pipe that's for a Power King GT with a Kohler. I'm hoping it will work and come out from under the hood in the large side opening. It bolts to the head, takes a tight 90 down about 4-5" then takes another 90 and out the side. I'm gonna order the pipe this week. I'll let ya know how it works...

Steve@B&B

Before you go too nuts on it, might wanna do some deep research and see if it's a prototype that found it's way into-the-wild... you may have a rare bird...

After doing some looking, it COULD be a 3414V.... a 1971-75 range.  It appears they made the tractor series with either a Hydrostatic, Shuttle, or Variator (hence the H, S, or V designations.

The variator appears to be a 3 speed gear, with variable sheaves.

They used higher power levels on the hydro and shuttle (gear), but they didn't go high power on the variator... probably for good reasons.