hey guys welcome back to my small engine repair channel today i'm going to show you why you don't
need to bother to grease these parts on your lawn tractor so the part i'm talking about here
are the spindles that hold the blades on your lawn tractor they're bolted right on the deck
and typically they'll be two depending on how many blades you have on your deck this deck has
two blades so you'll find two spindles like this and sometimes you'll find that there are grease
fittings on these spindles not every model of tractor has the grease fitting and the other
spindle on this deck is underneath the plastic guard by the way this is a john deere 115 tractor
almost all the john deere homeowner tractors like this have the grease fittings on the spindles and
even if you have a grease fitting on your spindle it's almost a waste of grease to grease them up
and i'll show you in the shop here what i mean so what i'll do here in the shop guys i've got the
spindle i'm going to take it apart show you inside and why you shouldn't even bother greasing them
so now the center shaft will come out so now you can see what the spindle consists of the shaft
an adapter on top here or spacer two bearings in the spindle and another spacer in the center
so the main reason i'm telling you not to waste your grease is because the two bearings
inside the spindle are sealed so whether you pump in a whole two big grease in there it's
not going to get into the bearing because the bearings are sealed on both sides if you do put
a bit of grease all it's going to do is keep the center spacer lubed up which will not make
your spindle last any longer than it already would basically the lifespan of your spindle
will depend on how you use your lawn tractor also the quality of the bearings going into the spindle
and whether they're properly greased underneath the seal so if you have a lot
of time what you can do is take your spindle apart remove the seal here on the bearing
you can do that with the pick like i'm doing now check the content of the grease this one's nice
and packed if there's not enough grease you can pack more in then just reinsert the seal
so whether you fill up the spindle full of grease it will not get inside your bearings some people
do it just for psychosomatic reasons if people think it's helping then it makes them feel better
a lot of customers want me to put grease into them whether it gets into the bearing or not so i just
do it by the way guys i do have a video that shows how to grease sealed bearings the link is in the
top right hand corner of your video screen in that video i show you step by step how to
grease a bearing packet and reseal it sometimes i get lawn tractors in the shop where i replace
the spindles i take them apart and it's full of grease and the bearings are still shot so again it
just proves that filling them up with grease will not help your bearings one thing i will suggest
though guys is if you have your spindle apart get the old anti-seize out put it on the shaft
this is the best thing you can do for your spindle the reason for that is if ever you have to take
the shaft out of your spindle to replace the bearings the shaft will not be seized onto the
bearings and the spacer inside the spindle as well and you can make sure it's all the way up here
and if you do have a spacer that goes on your spindle it will be a lot easier to remove in the
future and if it makes you feel good to throw some grease in here by all means go ahead and do so
personally i don't really bother unless people want it in there and just to show you that not
all spindles come with a grease fitting here's an ayp or craftsman lawn tractor spindle you'll find
these spindles on pulan husqvarna and other makes of lawn tractors and again this spindle here comes
with sealed bearings as you can see on top here they're the exact same bearings as you will find
in this spindle here and it only seems to me that it's mostly john deere that equips their spindles
with a grease fitting so at the end of the day guys it makes no difference whether you have a
grease fitting on these or not so thanks again for watching guys make sure you're subscribed
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