You are very welcome, glad to help. I'm not sure if there is a video on Youtube regarding replacement of the seals, however I know there are videos on removing the blade adapter. Of course you have the link here on the maintenance manual for the F series, I'll post a link below again if you don't. I suggest just reading through it really good. I'll also give you my cliff notes on the job, hope it helps! SAFETY FIRST! DISCONNECT THE SPARK WIRE PRIOR TO DOING ANY WORK ON THE MOWER. You can expect a bit of a challenge in getting the adapter off, and don't be surprised if it breaks in the process. If that adapter hasn't been removed for years you can expect it to be rusted in place and somewhat tough to remove. Heat, penetrating fluid and pressure is your friend. Pressure is via a big hammer and large brass punch, or pitman arm puller (The puller is what I use) No problem though, those adapters are still available through Toro, or aftermarket sources for a decent price if it gets bent, or damaged during removal. The process will be fairly straight forward. After the blade and adapter are removed, remove the 3 bolts securing the muffler and crank support to the muffler plate. Once the muffler is removed you can access the 4 ea. 1/2" bolts that secure the crankcase to the muffler plate, remove those while supporting the engine. Once the engine is removed it is just a matter of prying the seal out with a small common tip screwdriver by carefully prying in between the seal and crank. Those old F series cranks are tough, but if you want to wrap the screwdriver tip with some masking tape that would be fine. You obviously want to avoid scratching the sealing surface on the crank too much, or else the sealing maybe effected once you get the new seal installed. Once the old seal is removed just clean the crank in the sealing areas with emory cloth or scotch brite, or similar, nothing that is too aggressive though. Clean the area with some brake parts cleaner or similar, rubs some fresh oil on the inner sealing surface of the new seal and drive in place using a piece of PVC pipe that is about the same diameter as the seal and approx 12 inches long (needs to be long enough to clear the end of the crank), then drive in the seal with a mallet striking the PVC pipe until the seal is in just below the chamfer in the crankcase (about 1/8" below). Don't bottom it out in the recess, or else you run the risk of damaging the seal. When you put it all back together use a good anti-seize compound on the blade adapter-to-crank mating surface, "Never-seize" is a great brand and is what we use at my workplace, a good molybdenum disulfide grease (aka MolyB grease) is good to use as well. This will make removal of the adapter so easy the next time you have to remove it.
https://lookup3.toro.com/ttcGateway/Acrobat/manuals/lball.html
As far as the chute and bag options, you have a couple of options available. You can either mount a rear bagger setup to that model, or you can use the old school side bag set up with the prop rod that mounts to the RH rear handle bracket and goes through a hole in the deck, and at the top end holds the bag via a hook. This side bag option is probably the most popular and most available, the rear bag option is kinda rare and expensive if you can even find it on ebay. If you want to look at the rear bag option just look on Partstree.com, parts lookup for Lawn-boy model number 0292A, it list the rear bag parts drawing that would work for your machine.
https://lookup3.toro.com/ttcGateway/Acrobat/manuals/lball.html
As far as the chute and bag options, you have a couple of options available. You can either mount a rear bagger setup to that model, or you can use the old school side bag set up with the prop rod that mounts to the RH rear handle bracket and goes through a hole in the deck, and at the top end holds the bag via a hook. This side bag option is probably the most popular and most available, the rear bag option is kinda rare and expensive if you can even find it on ebay. If you want to look at the rear bag option just look on Partstree.com, parts lookup for Lawn-boy model number 0292A, it list the rear bag parts drawing that would work for your machine.
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