Recent content by tgzzzz

So, bearings don't come with much grease ..........and that's OK. Kinda hard thing to relearn. I have back up spindles without Zerks. Think I'll jsut leave them as is.

Thank you. I've passed on these suggestions.

Will do.

Over beers a guy told this tale about his mower dropping to 9v. Alt puts outs 13+v. I just read a thread about pto killing engine but here engine runs fine, pto engages smoothly at wot but the dash volt meter drops to 9v and tractor continues to run until the battery is dead. This just has to be...

Couple of thoughts: Somewhere in Timken literature, the term used was "shield." This makes more sense than "seal" when grease/water/dirt can get around whatever is covering the bearing retainer. I read Bert's post #7, just above, as the ZZ actually is a sealed bearing, as in nothing gets in or...

Mine's still running fine at 170hrs but my question is: Is there anything I can to to pre-empt failure? I've read of a work around with the starter so you can keep using the engine IF the parts fall harmlessly in to the sump. But engine becomes junk if the parts hit other parts. I haven't seen...