I work for a Equipment Manufacturer in Woodstock Ont. Ca. and we design and build Construction, Mining, Deep Sea Oil drilling, 
Marine winching, Rescue hoists, the list goes on and on. I tell everyone that if its "big ugly and hydraulic we build it".
My post secondary degree is in Mechanical Engineering, in the late eighties when computers started to come into play in the Engineering 
department I saw an opportunity to advance in the company as they were going to need a computer geek in the future and started to 
jockey for that position. I discovered that most people are scared of computers and used it to my advantage, man they do have an off 
switch and if your computer is pissing you off use it.
The company's name is Timberland-Group  (   <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.timberland-group.com/">http://www.timberland-group.com/</a><!-- m -->   ) and we own several other companies in North 
America. Our US company is called TSE International located in Shreveport Louisiana. The link is our main Corporate web site (the first 
one I ever created, that spinning globe took me a week to figure out and make work correctly, could do it in ten min. to-day) and from it 
you can link to the rest of the companies we own.

That all being said the boys in the stockroom have already set me up with every thing I need and even offered to come over and
wrench it all together for me, I turned them down on the assemble as that's the fun part and I didn't build a 40 x 80 shop so someone
else could wrench for me. Thanks for your offer.

I also solved my odd ball fittings problem, the thread on the power steering motor is standard power steering straight thread (inverted 
flare tube nut), different then hydraulic component thread. I found a inv. flare nut and made up 4" long 90 degree bend custom fittings 
with the tube nut on one end and a flare less 1/2" pipe thread on the other. I also discovered that GM uses the same thread on the 
factory steel fuel lines on their full size models from the sixties to the eighties.

The cab on my 2-44 was manufactured by a company named Sims (   <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.cabdepot.com/make_page.php">http://www.cabdepot.com/make_page.php</a><!-- m -->   ). I found this link on 
the net and I'm sure it the same company but they now have a Canadian address and the tag on the inside of my cab is a US 
address?????.

Your son has Weatherhead connections, that's funny because it was an old Weatherhead catalog from 76 that put me on the right track 
to finding and building the custom fittings I needed.

The Cessna pump is not original and it seems large for the area it mounted in and actually sticks out from under the hood a bit on that 
side and is very close if not touching the bottom edge of said hood. When I purchased the tractor the price was right compared to other 
tractors I looked at without loaders and I was told it had  a power steering problem, in fact several. 
I suspect that at some point in the past the original pump was replaced for what ever reason and the mounting brackets and belt
arm were made by Mickey &amp; Minny Mouse and installed by Goofy.
I don't like the way the pressure and return lines are run, to close to hot stuff.
The cessna is always covered in and dropping oil.
The belt tightening arm is just not right, not original.
I'm also one for removing horsepower robbing belt driven accessories, my Pro Street Chevelle has nothing but a water pump on the 
front of it, everything else is run off of motion created by the drive shaft.

Stay in touch.

Ron