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willys55

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

had to replace the mixing valve on the washing machine, only 14 months old and 2 months out of parts warranty. Did not want to pay the service fee quoted 125.00 to come out plus parts, so I got it off the internet and replaced it my self....
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I sure do miss the days when things would last 20 plus years before something broke or just wore out.......sigh
 

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and the part was only 65 bucks and took less than 20 minutes to replace, it took longer to turn the water off and slide the machine from the wall.....:laughing:
 

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

had to replace the mixing valve on the washing machine, only 14 months old and 2 months out of parts warranty. Did not want to pay the service fee quoted 125.00 to come out plus parts, so I got it off the internet and replaced it my self....
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I sure do miss the days when things would last 20 plus years before something broke or just wore out.......sigh

My buddy has a Sears dryer that quit working.
They charged him $80.00 or so (can't remember...) to diagnose problem and order a part.
Part delivered to him.
Service guy returned to install the part, but it was the wrong part!
STILL charged him for the second service call.....................
The dryer remains non functioning.
 

bertsmobile1

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

My buddy has a Sears dryer that quit working.
They charged him $80.00 or so (can't remember...) to diagnose problem and order a part.
Part delivered to him.
Service guy returned to install the part, but it was the wrong part!
STILL charged him for the second service call.....................
The dryer remains non functioning.

Well there is a reason why I do all my own repairs and that is one of them.

Did the water valves in my washing machine , 1999 LG front loader once, then swapped a hot which we don't use for one of the colds which I do use as they wanted $ 65 for a simple solenoid.
Just finished doing bearings & water seal on Thursday
The shaft on the spider was shot and as I had no transport for 2 weeks I simply cut a hole & fitted a grease nipple then filled the cavity between the bearings with , you guessed it .........vasoline.
That should hold it for another 10 years or so.
Had a vehicle been available I would have fitted a speedy sleeve but to get one mailed out was going to be $ 50 for freight on a $ 9 part.
Bearings were all stock mower items but I did have to order a new seal $ 16 from a marine engineering shop or $ 54 from a washing machine parts shop.

Got quoted $ 450 to have it done here or $ 299 done in their shop which was reasonable labour wise but $ 54 for a seal, $ 46 for a 6204 2rs-C3 and $ 57 for a 6205 2rs is unbelievable.
Now I do get bearings wholesale but how much profit do you need to make on a 6204 ( $ 4.25 wholesale ) & a 6205 ( $ 5.75 ) , both very common bearings, even allowing for the C3 fitting.
That quote was dependent upon the old bearings pushing out ( they didn't ) and the shaft & spider being in good condition, it wasn't .
I asked if they had speedy sleeves on hand & he asked me what a speedy sleeve was so one can only wonder what sort of training washing machine technicians get now days.

Sunday pulled the mixer out of the wanker waggon and replaced the diaphragm so now it is running but looks like I will need to pull the evaporator down to get it to work properly which is a bitch cause it is fitted in one of those positions, you can see it but not get to it without first removing 1/2 the engine.
 

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Yeah, they just don't make mechanics like they used to............
 

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Yeah, they just don't make mechanics like they used to............

Don't know about making them, but one wonders how they train them.
Even worse is Speedy Sleeves were invented down here ( naturally we did not commercialise this invention ) so one would wonder why they were not conversant with them.
They quoted $ 295 for a new spider just after telling me my washing machine was obsolete as it s belt drive & the new ones were direct drive and way pasts its design life.
I know the washing machine is obsolete as I bought it from a superseded stock shop in 1999 ( I am frugal ).
I did mention that my mother only ever had 1 washing machine in 57 years and that one ( a Tray Way ) was still in good working order when she died
 

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

had to replace the mixing valve on the washing machine, only 14 months old and 2 months out of parts warranty. Did not want to pay the service fee quoted 125.00 to come out plus parts, so I got it off the internet and replaced it my self....
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I sure do miss the days when things would last 20 plus years before something broke or just wore out.......sigh

Yeah I know how you feel about the good ol days of quality built into a machine, my parents major appliances lasted forever, and if I can remember right I think mom "passed-down" our old washing machine to my sister when she left the nest, and she used it until she married and moved on,yep sometimes you can get some GREAT repair info off the net, there's a ton of good you-tube video's (as you already know, ) and there are "Part's Supplier's with some really good vids showing repairs on thousands of item's found in your home these day's, ( Repair Clinic, Ereplacement parts, Partstree etc. etc.) and of course for our mowers they have those also, along with most other parts places, I just bought the wifey ( 3 yrs. ago ) a new Washer & matching Dryer, ($1200.00) NOT top models either, Samsung front loader, HIGH Capacity models with sanitizer ( B/S cycle which we NEVER use ) BUT, they were on a big sale, anyway I always research things on the net and whenever I find a related video for ANY of our appliances I download it onto my flash drives just like ALL my mower info,Things sure have changed .. I always feel good when I'm one of the DIY guy's .
 

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Well I see the "gang" is all sleeping in AGAIN !!

Chuck should be here any minute, probably sittin on the "throne" sending "biscuits" to N. Korea, looks like we see 132,000 today, man the count is gettin up there, !!!

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AHHhh I see we must have been posting at the same time, Chuck, your puter is faster than my decrepid ol dinosaur, BUT I am ( hopefully ) getting my new puter this Black Friday, Hope they don't run out.
 
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