okay I wasn't going to show this because I'm kind of ashamed about what I'm doing
here this is just my little John Deere that I paid 200 bucks for it's an l110
automatic I needed to access the transmission because even though this is
a quote sealed unquote transmission you can still access it and drain the fluid
out and refill it but to get to it you got to take the fenders off take the
fenders off you got to pull the steering wheel off
you got a ray you got to undo this raise it up you got to undo this raise it up
and there's bolts that hold this on I mean it's just a they made this because
they absolutely did not want you to access this transmission and another
thing is these gas tanks they leak quite frequently so I sort of did the I call
it Yankee engineering because I'm a Yankee and I just undid the seat bolts
there's two I'm hearing one here here and here
they're 10 millimeter hook might come along by sealing winch to it and yank
that son-of-a-gun up now I've accessed the sealed hole that you're not supposed
to be able to access let me show you what it looks like
you're not supposed to be able to get to it but by golly if you're persistent and
you say enough bad words you can do it this is a magnet that fits in there this
way and it does have I'm going to clean that up real good look at that
anyway I'll get this back together
here's what I've got pulled out of there so far and this is what I'm using just
uh a siphon pump where the hose step down at the bottom of this transmission
there is another way to do this and that is to drop the transformation off of
this thing you got to pull belts off and and undo the bolts that hold the axle on
you've got to undo the the rods the control rods for the transmission the
brake you got to take the belt off the idler pulley so this was just easier I
don't care what it looks like when I get this thing back down I will hammer it
back into position and if it works great if it not I'll see if I can get 200
bucks back out of it for the deck in the engine so uh anyway that's all the fluid
I got out of it and it is bad looking fluid bad and this thing is just caked
with dirt there's no way it could cool so that add that really exacerbates an
already bad problem here's I could mow about half an hour with this thing
before the transmission would just stop turning the wheels so this stuff is like
water it's wore out and this is just too hot
so I'm going to clean that all off once I get that cap back on and here's what
I'm putting in it
just in 2050 and probably in about half an hour I'll have this put back together
and Moen and I plan on mulling with it for about an hour so I'll let you know
in about an hour and a half or so if this thing works all right there's a
almost almost two and a half hours of moyen I did more than this I did outside
the fence and since my neighbor can't seem to mow his yard it did about 30
feet of his front yard oh well that worked so yeah I found a
little shortcut I was a little embarrassed to show you that you know
that's definitely the wrong way to do it but it worked and I got it done in 20
minutes versus a couple of hours I didn't really want to put any more time
into this and I got the valve cover leak fixed all I had to do is take it off and
take a scotch brite wheel and buff off the old gasket material and put some new
red RTV on there and a little bit more to do then I'm going to put the hood
back on and call it a day thanks for watching
this is the Walmart parang that's like 7 bucks at Walmart
and cheap but I got to tell you I have spent a total of about two hours putting
an edge on this thing when you get this at Walmart I mean it's
for all intents and purposes it's just on blunt it's nearly that blunt you know
I was barely of a point on it and it has taken me two hours rubbing to get this
bevel on there
and the thing is with these you don't want to put a delicate edge you want to
put a heart up steep working edge on these and I'll tell you what as hard as
it was to put this edge on I think it would probably last a while this is the
Gator Bowl oh the Gerber Gator Bowl oh and I just put it on a stone a couple of
times and this is you could shave with this edge it's that sharp but again it's
not a delicate edge it's a good working edge and I guess I should confess I've
gone off the deep end with machetes I've got three more machetes coming
Tramontina a marbles and crap I can't remember the other brand but if they're
all three bolo style machetes I am convinced that for what I'm doing and
for most everything you would need to do the bolo machete style is the most
versatile I really don't know what special niche this pairing fills nothing
wrong with it but it doesn't have enough weight at the cutting end at the
whacking and where you really need weight to hack through something this
does and that's why I'm sold on the bolo style so I'm gonna put an edge on this
it's like my wife couldn't use this when she's out and about long she doesn't cut
a toe off or a finger anyway when I get the other bolo machetes and get a good
working edge on them and get them out on the property and work them for a day I'm
going to do a comparison of all of them so look for that