Recent content by rickfischer51

Need a seat for my 318. Anybody out there have any experience with the $100 replacement seats on Amazon and ebay? Are they worth it? Anything to look out for?

There is more to it than lower strength steel. There are special forming grades with alloying elements that have nothing to do with strength, but greatly aid forming. High strength steel will split in the forming dies as easily as low strength if the raw material has rolling flaws. The...

Is there a plain (no gauge) gas cap for a 318 gas tank? AM102924 from a 312-315 perhaps?

Anybody have any experience with the Z-glide front suspension conversion on a Z9XX zero turn?

What is the purpose of the isolator? Heat insulation? Sound Insulation? Just pulled my motor and discovered the remnants of the original. Is the isolator mission critical?

I'm changing the fluid on my 318. Operator's Manual says Ford Type F, Technical Manual says JD HyGard. Last time I did fluid on my old 314 called for Type F and it was red. The HyGard I just put in my Z925 is not red. The fluid I drained from my 318 is red, so it is probably Type F. But...

You dont tell us what your using it in, but if its older, its perhaps more important to find oil intended for service class J. The newer stuff does not meet that. The B&S oil does.

I picked up a 318 and am going through it. The sight tube is a total kludge job/cluster snuggle. Pics are attached. The manual has no pics of what it should look like, the parts diagrams show just tubes and stuff in space. The actual sight tube mounts in the little stamped bracket, and I'm...

Great, Thanks for the reply.

Thanks for the reply. Dont have the bagger system, so I'm free to improvise. Yippie!

My newly acquired 318 had a busted taillight. Deere wants $22 for a replacement, used on ebay are even more. I found these on ebay, they fit perfect, and what I saved is going into LED bulbs fore and aft.

Are the holes circled in the attached photo actually used? Ain't nothing to screw them to, no other unused holes for a connecting part, parts diagram shows screw and push nuts in the rear holes, but not these.

This hitch plate thingie is weird. Cant find it in JD parts. Is this part of a 3 pt hitch? Is this after market?

Just picked up a 318 with 481 hours (supposedly). I see according to TractorData there are 2 different engines. Onan B43G from 1983 to 1986, and Onan P218 from 1987 on. P218 starts at S/N 1420001. My S/N is M00318X1:14286. Never seen a Deere S/N like this. Trying to figure out what plugs...