okay this is the deck to my hundred dollar lawnmower and I've decided I'm
going to take everything off of it and sand sand it down rebuild it paint it
replace bearings that need replacing I got a pulley hold on one second let me
turn the screen around
of a pulley here that's missing at a spring that goes from here to here and I
went online to cook it its own website and even they don't have this deck they
have three decks for the 10:45 lot more but they don't have this deck so
and a lot more was built in 2006 according to the sticker so I'm just
going to have to kind of play it by ear this belt is the wrong belt because
there was a pulley medicine so I don't even know what the what the length of
the belt is I do have a number for the belt that's on the lawnmower so I the
cross-reference that and see what the length is but I'm fixing to start taking
everything off I'm going to take apart the spindles that are that appear good
and see what the Mary's actually look like and this one I know I need bearings
maybe more maybe a little spin I don't know yet but I'm going to do this up
right
okay this is the bearing mandrel with a bad bearing and I want to show you how
bad it is see them bits and pieces and chunks it's uh it's beyond bad it's
totally destroyed and it's a good thing it didn't ruin any of the rest of the
mandrel because now all I had to replace is that one bearing because here's the
other bearing and I'm going to tell you a little something about it these
bearings can be replaced see the numbers on those bearings they can match these
up at an auto parts store at a bearing place over in Freeport they have bearing
service and supply so you can just replace these bearings and not the whole
bearing mandrel so you can spend a you know 10 12 bucks versus 50 or 60 but I
want to I want you to notice something here now this bearing mandrel has grease
fittings but they're absolutely useless because this bearing has a seal this
rubber seal right right here on both sides so the grease no matter how hard
you pump the grease is not going to get into these bearings and I've checked the
other two they're the same way the other two bearing Mendel's so what I do is I
pop this grease cover off the seal I pop it off whichever faces the inside if
this is the bottom one and facing up I take off this side and if this is the
top one facing down a takeoff the the side that
is facing inside towards the Greece of hitting that way you actually get grease
up into the bearings ridiculous that's ridiculous
alright but uh that I thought I'd show that to you so now what I'm going to do
is take take this bearing over to Oh Riley's I see if they can match that
number for me if they can't Monday I'll have to go
over to Shreveport and pick up one bearing that's all as bad as that top
bearing the rest of these I'm going to soak them in parts cleaner get them all
cleaned up nice and greased them back up pull the seat pull the little seals off
that not ought to be not there anyway and uh and then I'm going to probably
sandblast this deck and repaint it Cub Cadet yellow all right oh yeah one more
thing this pulling the teeth broke out of it it has these a shaft that goes in
here has splines and they fit through
and you just there's nowhere I can get it to other war outs this is this is
what happens when you leave a lawn mower like this exposed to the rain or when
you wash it down and you let water sit on here it goes right to work eating it
away you buy a lawnmower and leave it exposed to the weather your you've cut
its life in half or less please if you spend a thousand bucks on a lawn mower
keep it in out of the rain take a little bit of care for it I mean if you just
grease the bearings once a year you'd get double the life out of the thing and
change the oil and filters okay end of rant I'm going to get back to work
alright this is the one with a bad bearing and uh I'm going to try to
get a punch in here and knock that bearing out of there hold on I got a
grease seal in here that here we go all right now I get to it that is slowly
coming out I don't want to damage the race the race is where the bearing sits
in there we go I'm going to show you that bearing real
close now completely fell apart and long after it really needed it the seal in
here came off that's what I pulled out of there all right
next I'm going to go go gets a bit of bearing and some paint I just wanted to
give you a peek at it before I do any more work I really had to grind a lot of
rust off of it and all the bearing manuals all three of them I've got
disassembled cleaned up I went ahead and painted the tops of them put them back
on there I need one bearing and I can reassemble everything and get them all
greased up actually went today to look for them but
all the places that would have bearings closed at noon so it'll have to be
Monday all right I'm making progress that's it
for today