Recent content by T.H. Hill

Doing a follow-up on my smoking intelipower Cub Cadet. I'm trying to chase down what's causing a small amount of white smoke at start up for about 5 seconds or less. Doesn't do it every time but I suspect I might have a small head gasket leak and once the engine heats up a bit, it closes the...

I just put one on my Cub Cadet. I run ethanol free gas but my reason was for winter storage and I put it in front of the fuel filter so it makes it much less messier when I change the fuel filter.

I suspect it's getting a small amount of gas into the oil somehow. I've checked the oil dipstick and I don't smell any gas and it's not visible either. The oil is right at the full mark now however, I might have added a bit too much when I changed the oil this year- fresh oil is really hard to...

I recently bought an XT1 with an Intelipower engine. It starts fine but it's starting to expel a small amount of white smoke at startup that lasts for about 5 seconds then clears up and doesn't keep smoking after that. Am I looking at the start of a head gasket problem or is this common with the...

OK so, I'm still trying to figure this out. For now I've decided to work on getting the brakes and the drive belt tension figured out. After making an adjustment behind the right rear wheel, the mower seems to shift just fine now. The problem I had was I kept turning the adjustment nut clockwise...

The other day I decided to try and adjust what I thought was the brake behind the right rear wheel. As I was adjusting the nut inward, I thought I was adjusting the brake pad but instead found that it was also adjusting the tension on the drive belt as well. At one point I checked to see how the...

Good to know... I've pretty much given up on trying to get that wheel off for now. I've been making some progress in figuring out why the mower is so hard to shift from forward to reverse and it seems to be connected to the adjustment for the brakes behind the right rear tire. I can make that...

Well, how about that. Looks like my problem started when this went out of adjustment somehow. The other day when I started adjusting the brake caliper, I didn't realize that I was also adjusting the belt tension.

Thanks for the reply.. I have a different set up on mine. I made some progress yesterday (I think) I was adjusting what I thought was the brake adjustment and discovered that when I tightened the nut that's located behind the right rear tire, it tightened the drive assembly. Now I just need to...

Thanks for the heads up on Kroil I'll pick some up the next time I'm at Lowes

soooooo on to my next installment of the process to fix this thing. After failed attempts to get the back wheel off, I started to look forward to where the clutch/ brake linkage connects to the peddle. As soon as I got this thing I noticed the clutch peddle was really far forward and difficult...

soooooo on to my next installment of the process to fix this thing. After failed attempts to get the back wheel off, I started to look forward to where the clutch/ brake linkage connects to the peddle. As soon as I got this thing I noticed the clutch peddle was really far forward and difficult...

soooooo on to my next installment of the process to fix this thing. After failed attempts to get the back wheel off, I started to look forward to where the clutch/ brake linkage connects to the peddle. As soon as I got this thing I noticed the clutch peddle was really far forward and difficult...

LOL soooooo on to my next installment of the process to fix this thing. After failed attempts to get the back wheel off, I started to look forward to where the clutch/ brake linkage connects to the peddle. As soon as I got this thing I noticed the clutch peddle was really far forward and...

Sorry but the new posting was about a different problem I was having with that mower. I thought that might be less confusing