Those Murray’s used to be pretty good machines. Might be worth a little TLC. Not to sure about the newer ones. Hope you start to feel better.
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John
Thanks John, slow but sure, feel a little better every day! I'm kind of impressed with this little LT. Will explain below.
Good to hear that you’re feeling better. Be careful with that Ibuprofen as it’s hard on your guts.
Yeah that's what I've been told, but it is all that works, Chris. Down to about 1800 mg per day.
My grandfather cut grass with a late 80s Murray for probably 17 years….after he passed my grandmother paid someone to cut the grass and sold the tractor. I bet someone got many more years of use from it.
I've got a late 80's one in the back yard. That thing had survived abuse from several different owners, including me. I got it non running. When I got the MF12G I gave it to my father in law. He gave it to the family ranchers out on the rez, cutting prairie grass then it even got passed around to others in the family then back to the FIL, before he called me and told me to come get it. They moved to a house in town where the owner cuts the grass. Engine still runs good but the belt mechanisms are all wore out. Will put that engine in something some day.
That is the same engine I put in Carolyn's cub several years ago. Good strong running engine. The fuel tank on hers is under the seat and down the back. Fuel line runs inside the left frame so routed it around the front of the engine at the frame level and then brought it up to the carb. The mice love those two air openings in the top engine cover and the air intake.
No mouse issues here. Diana has 2 feral cats over there and they seem to control the rodents. One of them likes sitting on that Murray.
Got it running well today. New fuel line, filter and carb adjustment got it running without the choke on a bit. Didn't take the carb off.
Drove it around out in the yard mowing a bit to make sure it runs well under load.
Raised it up to access the blades and much to my surprise the deck spindles are greaseable.
The front wheel hubs and axle spindles also have zirks. Blades are in good shape but I pulled them and faced off the cutting edge anyway.
Underside of the deck looks to be in good shape.
That is a floating deck with a anti scalp roller. Wish the GT5000 deck was a floater.
The Hydro.
Didn't find that exact number searching for an air filter but found one that measures pretty close after converting MM to inches.
Tractor data says this tractor was built in 1994. No good way to tell by the date code. TD also says it should be a 18 HP, not 16. The pics there look just like this tractor.
All in all, it looks to be in pretty nice shape for 31 years old. Probably never spent much time inside either. One thing that all tractor manufacturers should do is build seats like these old Murrays! The one on the junked one out back is still perfect, think I put it on the JD110, and this seat is also still perfect too!
I will probably go ahead and change the oil, even though it is clean it's overfull.
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