Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
No, but it is something I've seen and wanted to do. It's a good amount of work to plane and join a bunch of 2x4's, but it looks cool.
The DIY thread - DIYourself
- Thread starter Red Mosquito
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ktmrider
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Did he demo out the block ?
qclabrat
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Don't think so, but let me look again
qclabrat
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yeah, I think that's what he called it, when did they start using them? first time I've seen
jnos
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They've been around for 5-10 years (I think). The fitting are more expensive and the tool for pressing is $,2000+.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Pretty much every gate valve in my house leaks at the stem. I need to re-pack them, not looking forward to it.
Edit: doesn't seem to be a big deal to replace the packing washer, still other things I'd rather do....
Edit: doesn't seem to be a big deal to replace the packing washer, still other things I'd rather do....
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Kaleidopete
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Do you have a power tool battery that is dead and won't charge? I did,
a Dewalt drill. I googled for a replacement battery and found this fix.
Maybe it will work for you, it worked for me and brought my battery back to life.
a Dewalt drill. I googled for a replacement battery and found this fix.
Maybe it will work for you, it worked for me and brought my battery back to life.
qclabrat
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Wonder if it works for other makes, will try
moose35
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It will
Your only charging the battery with the other one.
When you hook up a charged battery to a dead one the voltage/amperage will try to equalize between the 2. Thus charging the dead one and discharging the full one to equal levels
ekuhn
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Been around for like 10 years. Fittings are more expensive and one time use but does save in labor with no fire risk.
Mega press is the same but for black iron/galvanized.
qclabrat
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my ztr was down all last year and I've been holding on to it to fix up, push mowed all last season, so that's gotta change
The last engine blew after what I suspect was a cracked cam shaft. Last year, I bought a new engine and installed it, and after engaging the blade, heard a metal rubbing sound and it stopped. It sat all summer in the garage afterwards. With some help, I've diagnosed it to be the clutch. I don't think I torqued it properly when putting in the engine and the clutch likely tore itself up. Anyway, just ordered a new clutch from OX and ready to try again. Engine had some trouble starting up as well, so will check the carb. I'm horrible with anything engine related. It this fails, I'm going to just get a new mower. Too much time wasted.
The last engine blew after what I suspect was a cracked cam shaft. Last year, I bought a new engine and installed it, and after engaging the blade, heard a metal rubbing sound and it stopped. It sat all summer in the garage afterwards. With some help, I've diagnosed it to be the clutch. I don't think I torqued it properly when putting in the engine and the clutch likely tore itself up. Anyway, just ordered a new clutch from OX and ready to try again. Engine had some trouble starting up as well, so will check the carb. I'm horrible with anything engine related. It this fails, I'm going to just get a new mower. Too much time wasted.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
This guy looks like a reliable source for a new mower. There's about 5x the amount of stuff there now.
https://binged.it/2r5JX7w
https://goo.gl/maps/Bg79ZMGrRvF2
Mower maintenance time.
Changed oil and filter. Air filter, and hit the business area with the leaf blower.
Had a wheel bearing go at the end of last year. Let it sit over the winter, and
looked up the part a couple weeks ago - ordered it up. It was way too big - 1" axle.
Bad job by me not measuring. Grab my vernier caliper, and find it is a standard 1-3/8x3/4 - piece of pie.
HD has them in the "don't buy me" quality range, so i grab some from the bearing guy on ebay. Figured
i'd do both wheels.
old and new.
Popped out the old ones with a punch, drove the new ones with a large impact rated socket -
Go to do the second wheel, and immediately notice i need a different set of sockets. FML - the axles and everything on
one side of the mower is smaller than the other. smaller one is 1-3/8x1/2 - who does this? guess i have an extra set now.
They will have to wait a bit more before being replaced.
also reset level for the deck - it was off by quite a bit, and scalping one side.
Changed oil and filter. Air filter, and hit the business area with the leaf blower.
Had a wheel bearing go at the end of last year. Let it sit over the winter, and
looked up the part a couple weeks ago - ordered it up. It was way too big - 1" axle.
Bad job by me not measuring. Grab my vernier caliper, and find it is a standard 1-3/8x3/4 - piece of pie.
HD has them in the "don't buy me" quality range, so i grab some from the bearing guy on ebay. Figured
i'd do both wheels.
old and new.
Popped out the old ones with a punch, drove the new ones with a large impact rated socket -
Go to do the second wheel, and immediately notice i need a different set of sockets. FML - the axles and everything on
one side of the mower is smaller than the other. smaller one is 1-3/8x1/2 - who does this? guess i have an extra set now.
They will have to wait a bit more before being replaced.
also reset level for the deck - it was off by quite a bit, and scalping one side.
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serviceguy
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Ok, the car needed to switch winter tires out, so I decided to ask the shop to check the noise, as they also do complete car care.
Once my car was ready, the service manager informed me that it was just an exhaust leak but it was so small they could not find it, only thing to do is waiting for it to get bigger and be more obvious. Enter sigh of relief. So I asked "is it on the left bank or the right one?". Service manager's answer was "You have a four cylinder!"...I guess the search was so accurate that they didn't even bother to look at the right (rear) bank, nor under the heat shield of the left bank or they would have noticed the 3 exhaust ports. Free check I guess, can't ask much.
Anyway, I have been thinking about being an exhaust leak after excluding everything else so waiting to get worse, then I've got my next DIY project cut out for me.
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Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Exhaust work is fun, enjoy!
qclabrat
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Have you ever changed the bearings on the blade pulleys. Mine have some play. Not priority at the moment but good to know anyways
not yet! but it is coming - i have a blade that is doing something weird - deck is level, but i'm getting some occasional scalping, so one of the blade shaft bearings must be going.