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If one orders garden tractor tires from Walmarts website they'll mount them free. I always look on their site to see what's available first when they're needed. I got my Wheel Horse tractor's front tri-rib tires/tubes I bought there mounted free but not tried to get tubes alone fwiw?

By far the best sealer I found is right here. Slime says 2yrs, this states 10yrs. I put slime in my original 1976 Wheel Horse AG tires a couple seasons & I kept having to air them up anyway. I read up on tire sealers & found this "Flat Out". It's been a few yrs since I aired them up after...

Can't just swap the hub off a B6000 I guess? That would make chit too easy huh..lol Fwiw- You can do a normal parts search on Ebay, then click "save search" at top of page so any future rims that are listed will be emailed to you asap. Craigs site does this too but I think it just says "Have...

If I run 10w30,10w40 *(syn or dino) in any of my Kohler K/Magnum engines they always burn oil. Straight 30 they never do burn it. Kohler actually states in their Operator manuals these engines will burn oil when a 10w is used but says it can be used if desired. Ive ran straight 30 in mine over...

Several yrs ago I needed a new Briggs engine for one of my Snapper SP's (rear disc drive not MTD specials). I owned 4 then, two 3&1 and two Ninjas. I noticed on Briggs site they had no push mower steel sleeve engines listed so I called them. They stated they just stopped making them the prior...

Old post but I fully agree!! I'll double down on the seat switch being a Posi. Ive re-installed several on used Garden tractors I bought over the yrs before operating them. Always the first to get modified but pull a big mower off a close freind/relative just one time, it sort of makes one see...

Welcome to the forum! This is what I call an "Educated Idiot" and we have "MANY" walking around. Fyi- Old Mopar man myself but sold my last one over health 3yrs ago, an original lady owned 69 Superbee. My daily driver well over a decade. One of the original 5000 N96 Ram Air/side scoop models...

Spindle on my wifes 2006 YS4500 with 42" deck has never been off till today. I checked torque on both sides before I started because I cant locate the pulley nut spec anywhere online? Both sides took about 110lb before the nut finally broke loose. They're on pretty tight Id say. I found so...

Do I have a steel measuring stick? Nope not anymore! I downsized a few yrs ago & sold/gave away/hauled off the biggest portion of 55+yrs of cra# gathering. My 3 car garage, 1 pole barn, 2 outdoor buildings (1 car garages) & 1500sq ft basement worth of this, that and the other mostly all...

I used to have a belt tool 20yrs ago but it was in one of my tool boxes that was stolen from my van. I wish I had it measured, I saw 96", 104" & 103" stated for this MTD belt length when looking it up? That old belt may have just stretched enough to fall off but 2 seasons is awful fast for as...

Very old post but for future MTD mower owners be sure you look up the correct year not only the model number. MTD makes parts changes way too often because they simply dont test their poor designs very long before they're units get released. Also information isnt passed along right either. Just...

Full Syn withstands heat much better than any dino oil ever will and last much longer. My brother (retired) worked for Babcock Wilcox designing jet/rocket engines and steam turbines for nuke plants since the 1960's. He tells us all to run nothing but full syn in any engine due to syns...

Just had a package make it clear across the US to the next town over just 30 minutes away from me then took off & landed two states over. Tracking stopped there. 3 days later it magically shows up on my porch..lol

Well most here do their own repairs so we order parts for mower/tractors and many on here ship those parts so it is relivent to most here in the group. I can understand its not for members who drop their units off to a shop everytime it needs a spark plug or air filter cleaned out and just get...

We had minor issues over 25yrs at my last home where mail went to same house number but next street over so we had to switch our mail out all the time like on they did on that Cheers episode..lol Now days USPS mail has clearly gotten worse though. We moved to the country a few yrs back and...

Or seizes due to lack of oil if its his slinger.

If it where mine Id open it up before more damage occurs. It can be your oil slinger, gov and possibly nothing that creates any future damage but if its worth keeping Id open it up. Look into the cost of your engine replacement vs repair generally helps people decide much faster...lol

So' its all about sealing and stealing here..lol You ask me google was designed to steal/spy on us from the very start, funny how they're so cozy with gov if you look deep into them. Nothing new here though, its been known for decades now. Snowden said our privacy was gone long long ago as It...

Been blowing filters out since I was a small kid in the 60's having mowers/minibikes/motorcycles since 8yrs old. Not having a lot of money in those days we were taught to maintain our own engines. My oldest engine now is my 1976 Wheel Horse with a 10hp Kolher K series. Its never needed its 1st...

I only care about tractors, nobody shot them did they?

Well I'd never mow my grass again..lol. Id need a truck load of batteries here to mow all my grass for sure. It took us half a day with 2 bats just to weed eat a few parts of what I usually trim using my buddies Crapsman battery trimmer last summer. Seems the powers at will never mow their own...

Well Shame shame shame! Big corp monopolies on the move to make longer lists of obsolete products to force us to buy all new junk sooner..grrrr! Oh how I hate change.

Reed & head gaskets replaced still filled hose with oil. Leak down test shows all good. Didnt smoke at all with hose disconnected but hose fills up in under 10 min time. Owner bought a brand new Kabota sub tractor last week, what he wanted from the start he says. He'll scrap this poc cub. He...

Makes no difference who makes them anyway since they been junk since 2000. I bought two new 4200 models and both hydros failed around 200hrs mowing just about 2 acres even keeping fans clean, resting every hour to not over heat them & fluids changed yearly they both still failed. The Briggs #2...

DITTO' I'd buy a used tractor and roll too cause I know how much better a tractors built. So many like to have that perty new paint but one can buy perty new paint without the new tractor, people forget that it seems.

Being more of a buy it once type person I'm a manual shift tractor guy. Less maneuverable than Zero true but you'll have a dozen Zero's piled behind the barn by the time a good tractor even begins to wear out. But' thats me... Nothing to see 50yr old tractors going strong, nothing to see 5yr old...

Thanks folks, Ill tear her down & see.

Friends Cub SV730 smoking so bad its choking him to death riding it he says. He's right choking me standing 10ft from it. I start it, then I book..lol. Compression shows about 160 on both cyl. I dont have a working leak down tester right now. No gas in oil, level fine. Pulled breather tube...

Well' fwiw, Between 1976 till about 2011/13?? all my Wheel Horses (3) Kohlers and my (2) Snapper self propels with Briggs sat all winter long with fuel in their carbs. Within a year or two after Ethanol going to 10% "all" of their needle/seats had been upgraded to the newer versions that...

Check your oil level ASAP, pull your spark plugs out and turn it over to clear cylinders out. Do this with your fuel shut off or fuel hose pinched to stop the flow. Sounds like the old carb leaked fuel into the engine, most likely from old needle/seat going bad from ethanol fuel. Old rubber in...

Bingo! Over 12yrs ago I sold my 5yr old crapsman rider before its cheap hydro failed and then its engine too. I bought a 1976 Wheel Horse that was well cared for, the owner had passed away. The WH still operates perfect today and all its ever needed while mowing over 2 acres is basic...

With most products made in fully automated plants with fewer people involved in producing items I wouldnt sweat the quality much. NGK is still in charge of the corp & they stand behind things. Larger corps are mostly ran with production costs & profits in mind and thats about it today, quality...

It wasn't bypassed because if it dies when trying to mow in reverse its working just as it should do. He finally figured out the AYP units aka: Husqvarna/Craftsman/Poulan Pro mowers don't have buttons or levers to reverse mow like all other mowers have you do. Instead AYP mowers have "two" run...

Enigma-2 That old mower hedge story has popped up many times over & over through the yrs. Sometimes with changes to it here & there but so far nobody knows if its really true or not? Seems to be older than the net so some actual leg work will be in order to prove if its true/false by...

I bought a brand new Craftsman 2006 4500 & AYP was about the only mowers left to allow reverse mowing without first doing the Hokey Pokey dance. I figured AYP would change theirs to a button too & may even change their replacement ignition switches to include a reverse "button" so I bought an...

Do yourself a really big favor and buy a compact tractor like a BX Kabota with a Diesel engine or similar. Not a Zero made today that lasts half as long. Just saying...

Fair warning: Any battery one plans on taking to get tested be sure you try to fully charge it before testing it. Ive had a few friends take their batteries in to get checked and were told their battery was bad & needs replaced. After they learned how much parts stores wanted for new...

I'd be leaning to a valve adjustment or weak fire if it starts hard after starting fluid still. Fwiw- Always try to buy starting fluid with oil mixed in it for small engines.

Looking into buying one of these but I won't now with trans already obsolete..lol These corps follow the "planned obsolescence" now and either make a p.o.s. with a trans that fails within 200hrs or build little better trans but' then they drop production for no reason other than to force us to...

fwiw- Retired now but my eldest Brother was designing Turbine Jet engines right out of college for Babcock in the mid 60's. He told me over 40 yrs ago when the Turbine jet engines were first tested they couldn't run long at all due to the heat cooking all the oil and they simply seized. It took...