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Local dealer says he has far less trouble and easier to work on with Country Clipper vs Exmark or Bad Boy. Problem is the Country Clipper is a lot more expensive. I bought one for the reliability and that it has an optional handrail for getting on/off that is unlike any other... after I fell off...

I seriously seriously seriously doubt you can "stretch" a tire. As others have pointed out when a tubeless tire comes off the rim it is due to lack of inflation, or the rim has rusted to nothing. I think you are losing air. Might bandaid with Slime. 9 years you say? Time for new tires.

Yup the hour meter on my Grandad's IH Super M is a toy to amuse my feeble mind. To think of the hours he spent in that seat... am amused for hours. There is a plethora of cheap junk Chinese hour meters available. Many won't sit in their packaging a year before the battery dies. But that is OK...

So when is the last time any of that happened? Say cellphone on car dash bursting into flames? Or Garmin GPS for that matter (you know all Garmin GPSs the past 20 years have lithium batteries?) and we put our GPSs on the car dash and leave them there when parked. On the other hand it is not too...

OMG! Gasoline never burns! No one has ever lost a garage, home, or business to a gasoline fire! Or not. Be sure to leave your cellphones outside on a non-flammable surface. And laptops. And everything.

Yes! Believe my EGo height was set to 3rd highest of 4. Maybe 1/2" higher than most mow. The CC is currently set to 3", but I don't take that measurement as gospel. Is just the label on the mower for the height I found by trial and error.

Mowed once or twice per week when it rains. Had weeds pretty much under control until I had the fool notion to hire TruGreen. They killed half my grass. Have/had several species of grass, but it was green and kept dirt covered. Still recovering. Know better than to mow white dandelion flowers...

Yes, pop the seals out, wash the bearing, grease, reinstall the seals. Do not spin the bearing with your air hose, but it is a good thing to use compressed air to clean it out.

Yes, pop the seals out, wash the bearing, grease, reinstall the seals. Do not spin the bearing with your air hose, but it is a good thing to use compressed air to clean it out.

Golly, I've mulched for 30 years and like the results. Rarely fertilize, and then it is with no good reason other than, "Maybe I ought to buy fertilizer this year?"

Usually "Sold by Amazon" is safe. "Fulfilled by Amazon" is not. Amazon is careful of their suppliers but if only "fulfilled" the item is procured by an "Amazon partner" and sent to Amazon warehouses.

Because the ZZ has shields not seals. Shields are open not sealed. I do not believe shields will be better for the O.P. because the problem with caged ball bearings is not "needs grease" so much as "grease got out something else got in."

1/3rd acre is all the more reason for a zero-turn. You don't have room to turn around and you are constantly turning around for lack of long runs to cut before turning. My back yard. Ring video link will only work for a month or two: https://ring.com/share/7f8c0829-6851-454e-bbc1-43189ae746bb...

I bought a Country Clipper Avenue 42” ZTR for much the same reasons the O.P. describes, 1/3rd acre, trouble walking long enough to mow just the front or back. Have borrowed lawn tractors in the past. Felt I spent half the time mowing just turning around. The Country Clipper is about the most...

Some sources report some manufacturers are deleting the inner seals now so the zero grade fitting might do some good. “Sealed bearings” are not very well sealed from the harsh conditions of a mower deck. I don’t think “more grease” is the solution when the problem is the current grease has been...

I can't believe you would stick with Husqvarna and ACE Hardware after getting stiffed the first time.

I had a B&S on a push mower like that. When warm the autochoke choked preventing the engine from starting. When hot it didn't choke and engine restarted. When cold (20-30 minutes) it choked and engine started. I greatly disliked that engine for this and other reasons. Actively shopped for a...

Why wouldn't Ariens know best the tire pressure to use in your mower? Do you think they are just saying that for best MPG? If you are on the heavy side then you might consider inflating tires to the upper range Ariens recommends. Or if you are lax in checking tire pressure. Remember tire...

Country Clipper.

"When it needs it." Lately not much rain, not much growth, but the grass still went to seed so I mowed.

If one hole is missing then what about the passages from that hole to the rod bearings' holes? I think one should be talking to Kawasaki about a new engine in exchange for deleting this thread.

I dug into the schematic of my Country Clipper and found the hour meter is driven by 12V from the ignition switch grounding through the low oil pressure switch on the engine. So the hour meter only runs when there is oil pressure.

I don't think it gets all the water but most. You have to oversaturate the fuel with water, up to a point the water stays suspended with ethanol in the gasoline then at some point it becomes too much. The test you describe is an accurate measure of ethanol content. You can buy the kits yourself...

You haven't disconnected the meter yet? I believe Bad Boy (and everyone else) drives the meter off the 12V electrical system exactly the same as was done in ancient times with mechanical clock hour meters. So start by disconnecting the meter (2 wires, right?) and put a volt meter on the wires...

Many premix oils had trouble with ethanol in the early days. Didn't like staying mixed, had to shake it up. Guessing modern premix has learned how not to separate in the presence of ethanol. Your 30 year old saw is likely to have vinyl and gasket materials which do not tolerate ethanol...

Parts found in the oil pan are too big to get pumped to the filter. Many engines have a magnet affixed to the drain plug. Lately this feature has disappeared, my 4 newest engines lack.

Cutting a new filter open only tells you whether there really is a filter inside. Cutting a used filter open tells you whether the filter element collapsed. And if parts fall out you know the engine is in failure. This is why aviation operations require the filter to be inspected after use...

I don't think "crude" is the correct term. But I will agree our OHV engines are lower stressed than high output automobile engines. I will agree with all engines the oil filter is only there to remove the worst particulates. Generally carbon which has accumulated on a cooler surface, then...

That test will tell you if it is bad but will not be an assurance that it is good. Sure, it is straight from corner to corner but are the corners in the same plane square to the stroke?

It is not crap or made up Hocus Pocus. But it is 50 years out of date. Once Upon A Time oil formulation did not understand its effect on the swelling of gaskets, or even the vinyl of oil seals. Refining oil was an art not so much a science. Lots of things were being done in production that were...

Is there any chance the oil is overfilled?

When I had an autochoke Honda I learned if I turned the engine off for 10 minutes that I had to wait another 20 before trying to start it. It would choke and not start.

I fully agree Kohler does not make their own oil filters but are you claiming Kohler does not make their own engines? OE is the oil filter Kohler sells and fitted as Original Equipment. This is much different from OEM. OEM is Original Equipment Manufacturer. This is the manufacturer who made...

What is an "internal oil seal"? Pics or it didn't happen.

There is no performance specification for synthetic motor oil. All one has to do is go through accepted "synthetic" motions in manufacture, there is no requirement of what is actually produced. There is a vague legal definition. Mobil-1 famously sued Castrol Syntech, but it was in a private...

Profit opportunity.

Good hour meters are powered by the vehicle's electrical system. About to install a Country Clipper OE option hour meter on my Avenue. The higher level Country Clippers include this as standard equipment. There is a knockout for the meter and two leads to power it. Agree the cheap aftermarket...

I generally get 6 years from an AGM battery in motorcycle. If you do not check the "water" in your conventional battery, and if you do not put the battery on a maintainer when parked for over a month, then 2 years is doing very good. Amazon occasionally puts Noco Genius 1 battery maintainers...

My dealer sells them as fast as he can get them. Priced higher than an Exmark but a better machine. Small lawn here, 2023 Avenue 42".

A 6 year old thread?

I have 9.5 years on my original Tesla battery and 93% of original range.

Not EGo. One battery voltage, one battery design for everything.

I am still using my original 7.5Ah battery from 2016. Used to keep it on the charger all the time when not in use. But for winter, then I make sure it is inside where it can not freeze, and I let it sit out of the charger. Still has 50 minutes of the original 70 capacity. But it is hard to say...

Sorry to wake an old thread but go watch videos of disassembly of EGo batteries. There is a lot of electronics in there doing something. I would not doubt EGo balances cells with in-package electronics not needing the complex external Volvo EV balancer. Same for Tesla, there is a lot of...

And Country Clipper is a missing brand.