YouTube will only let me upload on my phone in 15-minute increments and I
can't figure out a way to get around it so at the end of each of this four-part
video I'm gonna leave a link to the next video
get yourself a sandwich and a cup of coffee it's a long video well here's
that one more I'm working on I got all my parts I'm going to take the fender
off the whole fender here I've got the seat loose and fixed take that off I'm
draining the gas yes tank and the reason I'm doing this is I got to replace the
drive belt that goes from the engine to the transmission that's really hard to
get to I may have to pull the engine and raise it up to get the belt under there
and up on the pulley I don't know yet haven't got out of there but I doubt
I'll be able to get that pulley off because it's 14 years old plus this is
going to give me an opportunity to look at the differential the transmission and
see if it's the transformation that I could drain and refill if it is I'll do
that and as soon as that drains the gas tank drains into the gas can I'm gonna
pull this fender off and boy is it cold in here and I hope I don't have my
heater on because I'm messing with gas but as soon as I get this the gas
drained and out of here oh that heater is coming on you can see my breath out
here is probably well it was 27 this morning and I know you people up in the
north are probably laughing but you know I can handle 102 104 any day of the week
I don't mind heat a bit I work out in it so uh don't laugh at me and my inability
to handle cold I moved from Connecticut when I was a
kid because I so hated cold ok back work cub cadets the 1000 series even my 1554
that one they these decks all come off pretty much the same way there's a bolt
here bolt here and same thing on the other side of this on the other side
same thing then two Springs here and here I'm not
100% sure the seats got to come off but I take it off just because it makes this
lighter and easier to maneuver and then there's one more on either side right
there and then you got to take the puzzles off both these phones come on
when they come off right here please are a number forty Torx oh and you also have
to pull this handle off and sometimes you get lucky sometimes you got heat it
up with a heat gun or if you don't have one maybe a hairdryer I've seen people
come out with hot water and wrap it wrap it up with a washcloth dipped in hot
water and just keep it hot so these two bolts and the pedals can come on that
and then whole fender can come off there's always that one it won't come
out and if I keep turning without adding some Lube I'm gonna twist off my torch
so
I'll give it about 10 minutes dragon could almost turn the heat off she's
alright I'm going get a cup of coffee but I
found my finish my coffee maybe I can get that off I did twist it off so now I
got to go to the hardware store and get me another number 40 and a half inch to
3/8 reducer I guess you'd call it so I can use my half-inch impact wrench on
this always became here for two things this and one Torx socket
well I decided to buy the whole the whole monty because the set I have is
Harbor Freight and I've already twisted like three of
them off if they're that cheap and since I was there I went ahead and bought a
some three-eighths hex keys oh yeah and a quarter inch swivel I don't have a
quarter inch swivel can you believe it so yeah this is what happens it's sort
of like food with me you know one bite leads to five leads to a whole packages
of chips and that's the way it was when I smoked pot when I smoked pot I didn't
smoke a joint I smoked the entire bag which is why I don't smoke pot and when
I drank I didn't just drink a beer I drank a case I didn't just drink a sip
of whiskey I had the bottle I have no self-control
oh well least I don't do any of that stuff anymore let's see if it'll work
okay now I would take this off and then this is all a lot of little parts to get
this deck off I mean this fender off
replaceable parts and this can go ahead replace this thing 14 years old and I
would imagine probably two-thirds of its life is SATA and when I think dry rot
and ethanol ruins hoses so
this sucks look at my long bar because I don't think what a lot more heavy yeah I
guess so I'm wrong yep so there's two more screws I gotta
get out and I'm gonna have to pull the decal off in the middle so I've gotta
get my heat gun back out I'm gonna try to do it without damaging a decal
sealing me pin the neck so if you get this off go ahead and replace everything
that's under there that you would have to remove this to access just to save
yourself the half all down the road so let me get my heat gun back up see if I
can get that off it didn't come off easy I'm tore it up pulls writing off of it
and this is loss of stickiness so I'll probably just leave it off all right let
me see yeah I completely forgot about these two bolts now we can take this
fender off all right there we go now transmission good look at this see
if it's got a refill and pull that gas tank off and probably pull that fan off
so I can get my belt over it and then the next thing is to put the belt on and
I don't think I've got enough hose to go all the way up to the engine so let me
see what I got here
I'm a I'm a I'll see I'll know in a minute was a quick things change in the
BC shop I traded actually I sold the poem that I fixed I got the Poland for
10 bucks I fixed it and I just sold it for 50 plus this and the guy who treated
and said it cranked up set it down three years later he came back and won
crank so I said yeah I'll give you 15 bucks for it I was asking 65 for the old
one so there's another one I'm gonna put in
the connection I got that on Craigslist that's for sale all right I think I
really want to pressure wash this off before I do any more
oh and I've eliminated the seat safety switch the reverse mowing safety switch
and I've got enough hose to rerun the fuel line so I think I'm gonna do this
tomorrow get it out there pressure wash it all
off and start putting it back together see you tomorrow another thing has
happened since I in the last 30 minutes I just got a text about a month ago I
sold a older craftsman chainsaw with a new bar in a new chain rebuilt carb nice
little saw actually it was sort of like that's Poland you know it's an over
handle and by that I mean handles over the body of the chainsaw nice little saw
a 16 inch bar a brand-new blade brand new chain and I sold it to a young girl
mid 20s I have no idea what she wanted with it but uh she didn't know how to
crank it or use it and I was starting to have second thoughts about selling it
to her so anyway I sold the tour and like the next day she texted me that she
couldn't get it running and then so I sent her a message saying ok I'll tell
you well I just give your money back and you you know probably better off buying
a new one because I didn't want the responsibility I didn't have a chain
break on it and it was an older style so it didn't have a primer so you had to
choke it and pull on the cord several times to get the fuel up into the carb
so a young person wouldn't understand what how the older models work so I
really was anxious to give her her money back and get that saw back from her
because I had been thinking about it and I could see a potential for problems
there so anyway she decided to keep it as she said her dad got it running and
she had flooded it out so now it's a month later and while I was actually
doing this video this clip here just a half a second ago I got another text
message from her this is the third one and I've told her I will give her money
back but I cannot drive all the way to Arcadia this time because you know
that's out and back that's ten dollars worth of gas so if she wants her money
back she like to come to Sibley where I live I will gladly give her money back
and I also told her that I had a crash event I just got in and a couple days
I'll have it running if she wants it we could just swap out because this one has
chain brake and primer bulb and easier to start an easier run although it needs
fuel lines right now anyway while she was a while that was talking if she sent
another text message saying okay she'd look at it when she came out well almost
I almost want to just give her her money back and be done with her she's not a
pain in the ass or nothing like that but she's not someone that should operate a
chainsaw and I don't want to be her teacher I don't have enough time to you
know hold somebody's hand while they learn how to operate a chainsaw so it's
probably better I just give her the money back and let her buy a brand new
one from a store and she can take it back when it does
okay tomorrow the pressure watching this it'll be warmer it's going to be 58 in
the afternoon it's going to take a while for my garden hoses to fall out because
they'll be frozen overnight and they've been frozen all day so probably tomorrow
afternoon the garden hose would be thought out enough for me to pressure
wash this well it's still early so uh I'm I'm gonna go ahead and put this
transmission belt on this is the the hardest of all the belts to do so I'm
just going to go ahead and get it out of the way this is a PTO plug here I'm
going to unplug this and pull the wire out from underneath and then here pull
this PTO off it's uh I think that's five eights yeah take the PTO off and then
behind that is the pulley way up yonder
above the PTO that I got to get to and I'll show you when I get this PTO off
what that looks like