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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
You ONLY find _______ when yoiu are NOT looking for it...........
You ONLY find _______ when yoiu are NOT looking for it...........
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
THAT'S how I found a wife !! .. :laughing:..:laughing:
THAT'S how I found a wife !! .. :laughing:..:laughing:
Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Had fun messing with my plow. At 4pm I was coating the moldboard to try to keep snow from sticking and just looking it over. I discovered that the horizontal hinge pin retaining bolt had sheared and the pin had worked out about an inch. The problem was getting it lined up and tapped back in by myself. I finally asked my next door neighbor to help. I tried having a tree help me but it just wasn't listening and doing what I wanted it to.
I'm going to have to limp through this storm with it like it is. I think I've been plowing with it like that for a couple of storms. I think I can extract the sheared bolt from the pin and just replace that end of the hardware. I tried to grab with vice grips but it's too rounded off and not enough to grab. Might need to borrow a right angle drill - I don't have one. It would be nice not to have to pull and replace the pin. Being a 10 year old plow all the hardware I'd have to loosen to remove/replace it is pretty stuck. Needs a new edge set for next season too. The leading edge is getting close to the moldboard.
Had fun messing with my plow. At 4pm I was coating the moldboard to try to keep snow from sticking and just looking it over. I discovered that the horizontal hinge pin retaining bolt had sheared and the pin had worked out about an inch. The problem was getting it lined up and tapped back in by myself. I finally asked my next door neighbor to help. I tried having a tree help me but it just wasn't listening and doing what I wanted it to.
I'm going to have to limp through this storm with it like it is. I think I've been plowing with it like that for a couple of storms. I think I can extract the sheared bolt from the pin and just replace that end of the hardware. I tried to grab with vice grips but it's too rounded off and not enough to grab. Might need to borrow a right angle drill - I don't have one. It would be nice not to have to pull and replace the pin. Being a 10 year old plow all the hardware I'd have to loosen to remove/replace it is pretty stuck. Needs a new edge set for next season too. The leading edge is getting close to the moldboard.
Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
It was ready. Stuff breaks. Often I can barely see where I'm going let along what I'm doing in white-out conditions, lol. Both wing return springs broke this season too. That's a regular thing. I usually keep a spare but don't have one now. The up/down button on the control pad fell off last winter. It was a bit challenging finishing the storm with a rubber band wrapped around the controller kind of/sort of holding the button on. I did 1/2 of one storm in my old truck with only rear brakes. You do what you have to do.
It was ready. Stuff breaks. Often I can barely see where I'm going let along what I'm doing in white-out conditions, lol. Both wing return springs broke this season too. That's a regular thing. I usually keep a spare but don't have one now. The up/down button on the control pad fell off last winter. It was a bit challenging finishing the storm with a rubber band wrapped around the controller kind of/sort of holding the button on. I did 1/2 of one storm in my old truck with only rear brakes. You do what you have to do.