I'll never have one of these! A real piece of junk!
What are you currently working on??
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SUCCESS ! ! Finally got the carb on the Kohler cleaned out. Runs like a champ now. Took it out for a drive up the road 1/4 mile and back. Hydro control pedals are hanging up a little yet but another spraying with PB Blaster should get them freed up. Now on to the sheet metal which is kind of rough. Tabs broke off, few dents and dings. insert for the head lights is non existent so will have to fab up something to fill that void. Won't take a lot of work but some time and fiddling to get things to fit half way decent.
I did some carb work on the MF12G with the Honda gx390 (13 HP) clone engine. I think that the engine swap was done almost 3 years ago now. It never would idle at low idle more than a a couple of minutes before it would start flooding out. I never liked the spring loaded needle and float setup as I felt that was the problem with fuel tank head pressure being stronger than that float spring. I found a new gx270 float that operated like an old fashion float that has to push directly on the needle. Then I trimmed a bit off of the gx390 needle and then the float level could be adjusted by bending a tang rather than non adjustable. Assembly went well.
Then it was oil change time while the hood and grill was off. It works fine with them on to but picture taking was easier! The oil needs to be warmed-up first since using an electric pump to suck out the old oil works much cleaner. The drain plug location makes a huge mess draining. This setup makes an oil change last only a few minutes, not counting warm-up. I pump into a quart bottle so I know that a full quart was removed, that's the engine's oil capacity.
Anyway it started fine and it idled low speed great, running like that for 15-20 minutes. ! I revved it and let it run higher speed and idled it down all worked well! Tomorrow will be the test mowing, to see how it does under load.
Pics. I didn't get any at the time of doing carb mods---sorry! I guess this in more of a "what did you do TO your tractor today" post.
DAC
Then it was oil change time while the hood and grill was off. It works fine with them on to but picture taking was easier! The oil needs to be warmed-up first since using an electric pump to suck out the old oil works much cleaner. The drain plug location makes a huge mess draining. This setup makes an oil change last only a few minutes, not counting warm-up. I pump into a quart bottle so I know that a full quart was removed, that's the engine's oil capacity.
Anyway it started fine and it idled low speed great, running like that for 15-20 minutes. ! I revved it and let it run higher speed and idled it down all worked well! Tomorrow will be the test mowing, to see how it does under load.
Pics. I didn't get any at the time of doing carb mods---sorry! I guess this in more of a "what did you do TO your tractor today" post.
DAC
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Got the sheet metal back on the 2166 Cub. Had to make a couple tabs where the side and nose bolt on. Front was pushed in so had to get that back out to clear the muffler shield but it went on. Then brought the deck up and checked it out. Blades came off OK. One seal was in up side down. Both spindals turned OK once I got them pumped full of good grease again. Did not find any numbers on the deck. 42", 2 spindle has the belt tension lever on top of the deck that was wired to a bolt sticking up ? ? Not sure how that is supposed to work but it is free. Little clean up, sharpen the blades and see if I have enough parts to mount it ? Then to figure out the tractor to deck belt size. Cannot find a manual for this deck. Not the one usually shown to come with the 2166.
Been working on the church's Grasshopper off/on since last week. Sharpened blades, then had to do some welding mods on some worn out parts.
The bolt for the front anti-scalp wheel had worn an oblong hole in brakcet, I got a new bolt and welded some large washer to outside of bracket to re-align holes. Also, a bad design IMO, the left front corner of the deck was a sharp sqaure angle, anyone who uses this thing gets it hung up on stuff like the chain link fence, posts or the church building
. I took an old bend blade, cut it up, welded it to front scalp wheel bracket and made the corner an angle now, thing should just slide off now or that's my hopes. Then I found both rear caster wheel had bad bearing, replaced them last night. Should be good again for weekend's cutting.
Priced a new one when picking up parts, almost $16K
The bolt for the front anti-scalp wheel had worn an oblong hole in brakcet, I got a new bolt and welded some large washer to outside of bracket to re-align holes. Also, a bad design IMO, the left front corner of the deck was a sharp sqaure angle, anyone who uses this thing gets it hung up on stuff like the chain link fence, posts or the church building
. I took an old bend blade, cut it up, welded it to front scalp wheel bracket and made the corner an angle now, thing should just slide off now or that's my hopes. Then I found both rear caster wheel had bad bearing, replaced them last night. Should be good again for weekend's cutting. Priced a new one when picking up parts, almost $16K
Got the new gas tank in for the JD LA105. Here's pics of what I had to tear apart to get it in. Mother Deere was nice enough to include a manual to show what to take out, just that it was in 7 different languages!
Here's the old tank.
Didn't take long to tear it apart, less than an hour to put it back together. But what a waste of energy to do all that for a gas tank!
Here's the old tank.
Didn't take long to tear it apart, less than an hour to put it back together. But what a waste of energy to do all that for a gas tank!
Picked up the injectors for the CC 1512, got them in, all the lines hooked up, return lines are new. Then the fun of bleeding the air out. Battery was getting low so put the charger on it and quit for the afternoon. Went down this evening to close the building up, cranked it a few times and fuel spit out. tightened the line nut up and it fired right off. Back in business again.
working on my camper, seems like things that should take me a few hours is taking me a couple days.... leaving for a couple days with it come Thurs., done or not. going to be using it 2 weekends in a row. 1st 2 weekends camping since last Oct. got the new 3 way fridge in this past weekend, gotta run the gas line from near the furnace yet and the 12v feed from the converter. Had to frame in the opening as this fridge is slightly smaller than the opening. Some of these had fridges in them originally but not all. Being that this one has a louvered panel behind that spot I think it had one in it at one time, but didn't when I got it. This is a 3 way fridge, meaning it can run from 12v, or 110v or propane. My last previous camper originally didn't have one but I retrofitted a fridge into that one too... (access panel was solid, no louvers)
many trips to the neighbors' garage, to use his router table and jointer/planer the last 2 days.
many trips to the neighbors' garage, to use his router table and jointer/planer the last 2 days.
Leveled up the lawn yesterday so will work on putting braces on my ladder stand rack on the quad. Only talking up to 80° today so with a fan should be good working. Will post a photo when I get it done. First thing this morning is water some new trees. Rain missed us again last night.
I have been working on getting a JD341 converted over to where it will work in my Simplicity 7012
I ended up swapping the stater and flywheel. Also had to take the bearing plate off to get the wiring through it to make it work. Also found the piston in the K301 split in half and wasn't the rod that broke.
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I ended up swapping the stater and flywheel. Also had to take the bearing plate off to get the wiring through it to make it work. Also found the piston in the K301 split in half and wasn't the rod that broke.
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Watered the 12 new trees and about 4 other that needed a good drink. Finished the bracing on the ladder stand carrier on the quad. Hauled a 16 ladder up and greased the wind vane on top of the garage. Set up a game cam to watch the Badger area to see when/if he show up again. Washed 16 Spaghetti Squash with vinegar water for storage. Started cleaning up the side panels off a 2166 prep for painting. Quit at 3 as it was getting to warm to be comfortable.
After the daily watering, I loaded the home brush pile to take to the farm tomorrow: 
It was twice as high before I ciched it down! I'll fill the water tank & load the Gator tomorrow.
Sanded the parts I cut yesterday for another folding "butterfly table" to use at tractor shows:
It'll look like this one:
I'm going to need four tables for a show in late September!
It was twice as high before I ciched it down! I'll fill the water tank & load the Gator tomorrow.
Sanded the parts I cut yesterday for another folding "butterfly table" to use at tractor shows:
It'll look like this one:
I'm going to need four tables for a show in late September!
Waiting in the ER again. Different issue than 5 weeks ago. Rummaging through the shed and backed into my mantis tiller that was hanging by it's handles and knocked out it down, caught me in the calf on its way down to the ground. Probably be 6-8 stitches..
Last minute preparations to leave in the morning camping. Was trying to dig out my 2nd spare tire for the camper that found its way all the way to the back of the shed behind a bunch of stuff
Last minute preparations to leave in the morning camping. Was trying to dig out my 2nd spare tire for the camper that found its way all the way to the back of the shed behind a bunch of stuff