Dipstick Oil Tube Leak at O-Ring

[reynoldston]

Thank you.

Your avatar looks very much like a Ferris mower I spent a couple years on at a cemetery when I was younger.

Could well be I bought it new in year 2000. Still runs and mows like the day I bought it.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Thanks for all of the responses!

That sounds right Bertsmoblile1, I'll try the grommet next. I'm starting to notice a pattern here. :smile: Hopefully, you will be around when I get time to snap a picture of my gear box and start a new thread trying to understand it better. My mower deck and chassis is made of a heavy gauge steel and I think I can make it outlast me, except I'm not sure what my options are for this 30 year old gear box if it ever needs repaired or replaced, it occurs to me to that I have never performed any maintenance on it--I think this gear box could possibly be the only thing that will take my old mower down even though it is already 30 years old. Thanks again very much!!


PS When I was mowing again yesterday I was hyper-sensitive to the feel of the clutch and I realized that there is a slight jerk when I put it in gear. After working with you on the other thread I think I know now that is my belt which has stretched and is heading for replacement.

Belts do not stretch.
They wear on the sides, get thinner so sit deeper in the pulley thus appear to be loose.

I would have hoped you replaced the belt while you had the mower up in the air .
When the cover wears down you get raw rubber contacting the steel pulleys.
As that rubber gets hot , it gets sticky , same as your car tyres so will tend to grab.

You shouls have a Peerless 600 series box in there and parts for that will be available for ever as it is still being fitted to new mowers, although most are going hydro.
Just done a rebuild on a 40 year old one. Cases are getting expensive but the internals are no great problem just so long as you replace the gears in pairs.
Thing that killls them is owners who think they can change gets like a car rather than putting it into the appropriate gear & controlling the speed with the clutch.

 

[Rick'sToro8-32]

That's interesting, that makes sense, my whole life I thought belts strectched. I was anxious to put it back together and mow, it's not that big of a deal for me to drop the deck (3 kotter pins) and stand it up, the next time I sharpen the blade I'll get a new belt. That's the plan anyway. :wink:

Yes, I think my gear box does say Peerless on it. That's great to hear about the parts availability. Is there any greasing / maintenance on this, I don't see anywhere to add or change fluid, if it even takes fluid? Maybe there's nothing to do to this box except try to shift properly, as you say, and wait for a part to wear out?