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I would have said 20 but I have a weird sense of humour .

Use a nut splitter and buy a new nut If the blade is a riht hans cut then the blade will have a right hans nut so it self tightens in use, rather than self loosens in use Then thread below the nut gets rusty & caked in dirt so start with doing it back up tight and cleaning the thread The...

I hope you posted this in jest Kohlers will only do 500 hrs ? Got some with over 2000 very hard hours might argue with that Craftsman a reliable brand. obviously does not know the craftsman is just a name . I left after that And he says he is a mechanic

And those bags get real heavy with lush spring grass so no way you would lift a single bin

Over the years I have gotten smarter or perhaps lazier not sure Now when I fit a clutch I run a stud up the crankshaft , slide the clutch up till it just touched the end of the crankshaft then tighten a wing nut to draw the clutch up So much easier than trying to hold it up laying on your back...

Tar Star always good to be corrected so now I will know Dosn't change the trouble shooting procedure though

Punch a hole in the end of the discharge chute and put a small eye bolt in it with a large stiffener plate under the chute Then you can tie it back when going through the door

Front king pins, wheel hubs ( inside ) front cross member pivot The pivot nipple is under the arm and often broken off They are shown on the parts diagrams on the JD web page and also in the owners manual accessable from the web site Usually you can only print out 1 section at a time ( PIA)

The 700 series is still made Eatons did not shut down they just stopped making drives for mowers because the mower companies would not pay for the quality The hydro is repairable but you will just have to find a Eatons transmission service centre and bring them the transmission I have one of the...

here are 2 types of solenoids. One has 2 wires and the black wire will go to a small bolt on the engine some where These do break off or fall off The other kind have 1 wire and ground through the carburettor body If the carb is mounted to a plastic manifold there will be no ground so they have...

Spark + fuel + compression = bang One of the 3 is missing So some where in the dark pull the plug out, lay it on a metal part and pull the starter Spark = good , no spark , try a new plug Still no spark take off the cover and remove the small wire form the coil Spark = bad switch or chaffed...

Trimmer line is made from a bio degradable plastic so after a year or so it crumbles up and vanishes What causes it to break down is the oxygen in the air and of course UV rays People buy big rolls of line because it is a lot cheaper than do-nuts but unless you do a lot o trimming it will go...

Are you sure it is feeding in ? Line goes hard with age ( should be kept under water ) If you do not keep feeding it out then it snaps off at the eyelet

I will double up on what Star said I managed to totally stuff an Extreme clutch by using my rattle gun Expensive lesson learned Had to make an offset open ender from some scrap 3/16" steel plate to hold the crankshaft from turning while tensioning the clutch. And I know it will sound silly, but...

Thanks Tiger I wanted to make sure I was not doing anything wrong What yo suggested is what I did The only other information I saw said to run at 1/2 throttle then open & close the purge valve which sounded weird but I tried that as well. I have had hydros that took forever to purge to the...

I would be inclined to check the pushrods first as that is easy & cheap, if you used a gasket . However those thin steel pushrods tend to vanish into the engine at the drop of a hat and then it becomes a big expensive job

Nothing is off the cards but I still do not know the sequence for purging air from the system I am pretty sure it is air as the wheel spins as normal when off the ground and the pump is quite in use All the other dead pumps / motrs that moan & groan when they start to wear .

Thanks Ilengine & Tiger but I would be surprised if that is the case as this mower only has 500 hours on it . I put a new engine in it 2 years ago because he failed to tighten the oil filter properly and is one of these clots who listens to podcasts while he mows It was also running quite fine...

Yes so I turned up a new cone

Double check those valve clearances. good chance one has opened up & pushrod fallen off .

Got a 2007 JD 425 Z track with the sideways engine and a DUP 10 E pump driving a pair of wheel motors ( M0Z425J040186 ) /DUP10E # 10E035050 It wrapped up some wire around the drive & clutch , ripping the clutch off So it got pushed around a lot because the owner is trying an insurance claim...

From the top we need the model number off the ID and the serial some times helps Then we need the part number of the new cable There are a lot of cables that look very similar but they will not interchange .

What switch where ?

Any thing with a cast iron sleeve or full cast iron cylinder

Anything with the same size crankshaft 2 diameters 1" or 1.125" Only another kawasaki will be plug & play bcause the plugs are all different .

Mulligans used to do repairs and also retail upgrade kits . Ring them up be polite , have the model & serial off the tractor & off the transmission handy Be polite, they have always been quite honest with me .

Use a strong flash night and look at the engine pulley if it is polished nice & shinny at the root then it is worn out. Have a look at the belt , it should show wear on the sides but not on the narrow end of the V The usual cause is the pivot hole on the clutch tension arm worn oval and the...

It makes no difference other than the fact that engines designed to run on full synthetic often have tighter clearances & smaller oil galleries. This is because synthetics wet better and flow better . While I doubt this is the case when you are talking about an engine that is built down to a...

It is a dead man system meaning that the brake is normally on & the power turns it off . It is impossible to slip unless the teeth are very badly worn or the spring that holds the arms to the cogs is week Unless you get good air under you wheels I cannot see their being enough inertia in the...

I hope you mean the the hot wire on the plug reads 6.5V . This will be because of a bad or dirty connection It has a plug behind the starter motor and the only other one is at the key switch Back probe the socket at the key switch, check for full battery voltage and at the plug near the starter...

If you have a rectangular hole under the front of the seat with a slider that goes up & down to show the fuel level the usual culprit is the plastic bracket the fuel tank sits on You will have to remove both rear wheels to get to it Some times the spring stretches but usually the bracket breaks...

The 100 series is the big box store cheapie models and the trannies are good for around 100- hours on flatish yards with no trailer use. Run the engine at anythingless than full speed and that can drop as low as 500 hrs Usually a change to 20W 50 will get another 100 or so hours out of it

The brake is a rack & pinion The teeth do brake off or wear down over time However line the others I would expect it to be sliding Rather than the wheels turning . Both Rack & pinion are wear parts so are replaceable but they are NOT PART OF THE MOWER. They are part of the pump/motor unit so...

The 100 series are RESIDENTIAL mowers so 120 hours or 2 years is about right Big box store was your first mistake because big box = big profit for the store They are made by JD & are substantally better than the exact same design ( JD probably pay royalties to AYP ) machines with the AYP...

We have been down this rabbit hole before and unfortunately you are wrong. The 100 series is the same design as the AYP ( Husqvarna ) mowers to the point that a lot of mower parts are interchangeable The JD's are built substantially better . A long time ago an employee of the factory where they...

Well what do you expect A long time ago I came across a clot who rather than clean a carburettor he suggested stuffing foam into the air inlet to reduce the air flow And latter on he actually sold round foam plugs

If you are adding saw dust you should add some nitrogen as the wood decomposing consumes a lot of nitrogen

When stationary the bob weights are withdrawn so the governor is relaxed and the only pressure comes from the governor spring People get confused which they should not because anything that is governed ( including people ) gets held back , slowed down , restricted. So the governor spring pulls...

Start the engine Put your finger on the governor arm and push it to slow the engine The slower the engine the harder the arm should push back against your finger Check that the governor spring is attached a they can fall off

Shimmed cranks usually fail pretty quickly so get a new PTO clutch Remove the kawakasi blower cover and trace where all the wires go to then label the engine side of the plug . JD change the wire colours at every switch and some times the plugs as well The full wiring diagram is in the JD...

If it came new with synthetic oil then the assumption is it was designed to run synthetic oil Down side is it still needs to be changed every season unless you put a stirrer in the sump when it is not in use so it becomes very expensive very quickly . What I always say what goes in is no where...

Lube the pivot on the belt tensioner arm and make sure it is free to swing .

Fixed price servicing What you loose on the swings you gain on the round about. If they do not come off in about 5 minutes I chop the head off the bolts or use a nut splitter on nuts then charge the customer the mower companies price to replace the bolt I get from Boltmaster I keep most common...

Apart from brown snakes, tiger snakes & crocodiles, there is very little that will actually attack a person unless you do some thing stupid like cornering it . The joke about snakes goes like this If a woman finds a snake, se gets $ 50 out of her purse & asks hubby to go down the pub & get a...

IT is a 4 cylinder Perkins engine Boomwade compressor that used to run 4 jack hammers and has 1" hoses which are a real PIA as the gun does not have a rotating inlet nozel and to have one fitted to the hose was going to be $ 200

Because of the way the belt is routed, the left usually tuns a bit slower than the right due to belt slippage This causes the left side to wear faster than the right .

FWIW I scrap about 50 ryobi line trimmers a year I have about 100 of them in the graveyard When some one asks if I have something that they can repair with their kids I give them a truck load of them Some even come back for more . As for battery or electric all I replace is blades, if I can...

Down here we get Yardman , which is an old MTD brand If I need mower body parts then I need to use US Ryobi IPLs As I said in the first reply some are just rebadged major brands As for the Ryobi petrol mowers I see down here they all come from China or Hong Kong The models destined for the...

The not particularly good quick test is a worn bush will steer easily left and hard right as one direction the teeth climb and the other way the teeth pull .

I have a couple of commercial customers who have council contracts to cut road verges They never sharpen their blades because of all of the junk you find on road verges and only ever replace them when so much of the flute has broken off the grass no longer discharges from the chute Those blades...