Allo everyone! New member here that has come to recognize quality and wanting to stop spending my money on cheap belt driven lawn mowers. I picked up this running tractor for $100 and am looking to restore it to it's former glory. I've already yanked a dead citrus tree out of the ground with it...and was very impressed of the mower's tenacity. I'm hooked. :biggrin:
I live in FL. We don't have all the needs of you northerners and small farm mid-westerners. I have a 1919 house w/ a nice piece of land in the city that used to be utilized properly to grow food etc... I feel the need to re-utilize it in the way it was intended. I'm looking to have this GT help me do that. I've got a tiller for this GT as well.
I'm an accomplished mechanic on top of being an EE. So far, I've rewired the spaghetti monster and bought a used mower deck in better shape than mine in hopes of cutting a stamped metal portion out of it in order to replace a bad section of mower deck that came with it. I have plans of powder coating the deck/rims, cleaning it all up, and making something beautiful out of it.
The brass float in the carburetor got a hole in it, flooding it. I cleaned it up and solder the hole closed. In the process of trying to get the gas out of it via fire and identify the hole (speed up the process) I learned a valuable lesson. :wink: The fire got inside and quickly got the rest out, enlarging the existing hole in the process. *DOH!* :ashamed: Oh well, the world needs bad examples to learn from. :smile:
In the process of trying to put the float back on, the needle valve dropped out. I heard a couple bounces...never to be seen again. I must have spent about 6 hours on my hands/knees with flashlight/scissors in my hands searching the grass. My neighbors surely think I've gone crazy. It's brass so...no magnet to help. I then bought a used metal detector thinking that nobody would be selling this little old part and that I could resell the detector when I'm done. Well now...that led me on a wild goose chase. Hours later I haven't found it and have more time accumulated on my hands/knees.
After a coworkers suggestion at giving ebay a shot, I gave it a try. I'll be damned. One of only a couple hits came up with a needle valve kit for a Kohler engine that is VERY close to mine for $10 with shipping. It looks exactly the same. It may be slightly a different length but I can adjust for that.
Anyhow, I'm looking for some help in finding parts. I need the v-belt for the front PTO. It connects the front drive pulley to the PTO pulley. It's so old that Ariens website doesn't support it. The manual doesn't give me a part number.
Can anyone help me? I'd be happy to share my trials/tribulations in exchange. :biggrin: I'm also very helpful in solving electrical/mechanical issues.
I live in FL. We don't have all the needs of you northerners and small farm mid-westerners. I have a 1919 house w/ a nice piece of land in the city that used to be utilized properly to grow food etc... I feel the need to re-utilize it in the way it was intended. I'm looking to have this GT help me do that. I've got a tiller for this GT as well.
I'm an accomplished mechanic on top of being an EE. So far, I've rewired the spaghetti monster and bought a used mower deck in better shape than mine in hopes of cutting a stamped metal portion out of it in order to replace a bad section of mower deck that came with it. I have plans of powder coating the deck/rims, cleaning it all up, and making something beautiful out of it.
The brass float in the carburetor got a hole in it, flooding it. I cleaned it up and solder the hole closed. In the process of trying to get the gas out of it via fire and identify the hole (speed up the process) I learned a valuable lesson. :wink: The fire got inside and quickly got the rest out, enlarging the existing hole in the process. *DOH!* :ashamed: Oh well, the world needs bad examples to learn from. :smile:
In the process of trying to put the float back on, the needle valve dropped out. I heard a couple bounces...never to be seen again. I must have spent about 6 hours on my hands/knees with flashlight/scissors in my hands searching the grass. My neighbors surely think I've gone crazy. It's brass so...no magnet to help. I then bought a used metal detector thinking that nobody would be selling this little old part and that I could resell the detector when I'm done. Well now...that led me on a wild goose chase. Hours later I haven't found it and have more time accumulated on my hands/knees.
After a coworkers suggestion at giving ebay a shot, I gave it a try. I'll be damned. One of only a couple hits came up with a needle valve kit for a Kohler engine that is VERY close to mine for $10 with shipping. It looks exactly the same. It may be slightly a different length but I can adjust for that.
Anyhow, I'm looking for some help in finding parts. I need the v-belt for the front PTO. It connects the front drive pulley to the PTO pulley. It's so old that Ariens website doesn't support it. The manual doesn't give me a part number.
Can anyone help me? I'd be happy to share my trials/tribulations in exchange. :biggrin: I'm also very helpful in solving electrical/mechanical issues.
