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It took 18 replies before someone suggested blade balance/installation causing the vibration? Here's a suggestion: Take the deck off the tractor and elevate it, if for no other reason than more comfort. Remove the blades, remove the belt completely, and if possible, remove the blade safety...

Most larger engines (>3.5 HP) use a tank with gravity feed, or a fuel pump mounted on the side of the engine to pull the fuel out of the tank, and the carburetor has a float that operates a needle valve to maintain fuel level in the 'bowl'. In fact, I haven't seen a modern bowl mounted carb in...

I found someone's dead cat tracks on my truck one time. ......

Takes a lot more than that to hurt my feelings. I just get amused when folks tell me how to handle 'the juice'. I'm one of those people that likes to be grossly underestimated. That way, I don't disappoint.

I seem to be using mine often enough, even through the winter, to keep it charged. Like I said, when I took the battery off the mower, in 15 minutes my charger was showing full charge using 2 amp trickle. I have quite a few water oak trees in my yard, as well as red oak and a few elms. I pick...

BTW, finished the oil change tonight. Took forever to drain the oil. Should have warmed the engine up first. Forgot what I put in it last, so just put Castrol GTX 10W30 in it this time. That stuff's great for high temperature air-cooled engines. My old VW had 400 degree head temps, so had...

Oh no, I wouldn't. Sometimes I read forums like this just for a good giggle. I'm pretty careful who I try to help, and how I dispense it. I learned my lesson a long time ago about hurting a millennial's feelings.

Unless you're using it for a hedge trimmer. Then you have to use the virtual ground.

:LOL:. I'm an electrical engineer, and have been for 38 years, in field service for heavy industry. I probably have some basic electrical knowledge. I started working on tractors, Jeeps, pickups, and cars when I was 12, and owned an air-cooled VW for 35 years, so my mechanical skills are...

My poor ol' YTH22V46 has been relegated to being stored under the deck since I've owned it. I normally try to take good care of my equipment, but having to leave it outside has done a lot of damage that is slow and cumulative. I started it up a couple weeks ago, and saw oil splattered on the...

A clothesline (for any of you that were teens in the 70's) works pretty much the same way. Don't ask how I know.

Anyone wanna try Nanafalia?

"MMMmm. Outta gas! Aight den". (In my best Carl Childer's voice)

There's your sign .....

Definitely based on the turboencabulator. I just wish I had the talent to keep a straight face through something like that. Funny stuff.

How old is the battery? I've found that they typically don't last more than about 3 years on these little tractors. Take to the parts house as the OP suggested, and a load test will tell you real quick if you have shorted or open circuit plates. But, before you do that, clip a jumper cable on...

I'm old and not that steady any more. Besides that, I don't have an artistic bone in my body. I can't even draw stick men, let alone sculpt the edge of a grinding wheel right. I'll just get me a new wheel. Already have a spare in the drawer. I think I have a stone like that which I got with...

I found some that are actually already .752 ID, and .908 OD (barrel) with a 1.125 flange on them so that the thrust washers will also be on bronze. It should take up a little of the axial slop in the spindle as well. I don't have a lathe, so I'm going to have to be dependent on shelf items...

I have this exact sharpener. I haven't had to use mine that much, but I'm fairly careful about where I put my chain. However, I hit a pretty massive rock cutting a stump close to the ground, and it destroyed the chain. That was the main reason I bout the HF sharpener. The chain was brand...

Yeah, your goats probably would have been too smart, and got held back for the "No Kids Left Behind" politics. Between that, and Common Core 'education', it's no wonder there's a generation of idiots about to take over this country. Seeing how the 30-somethings, 20-somethings, and teenagers...

If any of the belt guides are bent/broken, the belt will come off very easily every time you disengage the PTO. Been there, done that. A stick went through a mandrel pulley and wrecked the mandrel and the guide on the LH side of my deck, and a broken belt bent the one at the engine pulley...

Funny, but they don't show up on the drawings for the YTH22V46 either. But a peek at older models does. I have a 2012 model, and even that far back, the bushings were not shown on the drawings. Of note, I've found some very similar sized bronze bushings that I plan on doing a mod with...