well this is the deck to the old Cub Cadet that I've had forever and it had
an idler pulley here well I don't know what you call that tension or pulley
this this is the idler pulley this is a spring-loaded tensioner pulley and it
had no tension it wouldn't spring it was totally locked up on the post that bolts
it to this on sylia this bolt here is frozen here so that so this thing is
supposed to fit it like that and this thing is supposed to hold tension on the
belt it doesn't so I'm going to try to knock this out of here clean the bolt up
on the inside and grease it I'll show you what I got in a minute okay I have
beat and beat and beat on this thing and I don't want hit it anymore I'm afraid
I'm going to mess up the bolt you know you know you always put some nut on and
then you bang on the nut but here's the thing this outer portion is supposed to
pivot on the inner portion but what appears to me is this thing that the
outer portion is not short enough and it's not allowing the inner portion to
set on the shoulder here so this thing's not pivoting and this bolt is just froze
up in here and I can't beat it out so what I'm going to have to do is really
get ugly with it with a torch I'm gonna have to heat it up cherry red hot and
knock it out of there and I mean if I can't do that then I'm gonna have to
drill it out and buy another one of these I don't know I'll figure something
out but first thing I'm going to do is heat it
up with torch it's a lot more messed up than I thought it was and this is I got
a save this this to buy this mower now would be you know close to four grand
3537 and there's no way I can afford another one more and I have to have that
big one to get my yard done it's 5 acres of grass Ben there's 4 acres of grass
another acre woods but all right let me get my torch out here all right I'm
going to see if I can heat it up with this little torch and I will drag up my
big torch if I have to
that's going to like take a take a little time there I know you don't want
to sit through me heating this up but want to get it freed up I'll show you
you like anything the right combination of fire and cuss words usually works you
aren't here for the customer
Ron gee
I can't believe that a little vain the tolerances are so
tight alright what I'm going to do now is wire brush the hell out of this and
then I'm going to find a drill bit this size right here or a little bit bigger
I'm going to drill that out clean it out real good first I got to soak it in
water all right I drilled that out some cleaned it up a little bit but not good
enough I'm going to make a polishing rod and I'll show you how to do it this is
just a piece of dowel I'm going to cut a slot in it I'll show you what I do it
this is Emery cloth
think I need more
you see the rust coming on there
well now that's looking a little better I'm going to do the same thing to this
only uh I'll do it like this
it's going to take a little more time so I'll show you what I got when I when I'm
done all right now I want to do something else here see that's good but
I think part of the problem was the outer portion of this is not far enough
back away from that shoulder so I'm going to knock about a sixteenth maybe
1/32 of an inch off the bottom of this so this shoulder will definitely come in
contact before this does I'm going to do that on the grinder me again all right
knock some off at the end of that now now the shoulder of this bolt will touch
before this does now I'm gonna slather this in grease and
put it back together
already we are flattered
oh shoot forgot something
don't go you get to see how stuff goes real life spicy mouth now good me guess
now we're a hammer on that nut well geez we're a hammer down that nut it's become
a little flare to the top I've got to put all all these on the grinder so the
soccer will fit over it be right back