by KE4AVB » Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:16 am
That is one thing I learned in my 40 yrs of working on equipment and that is never assume anything. With lawn care equipment it is even more true as you don't know who or what was done to it.
Yes I have seen one mower where a double stack was missing the bolt and was only held on by the deck.
Wait until you see a double stack that is missing the lower half the PTO pulley. The customer couldn't get the deck belt on the pulley for it to work .
Being repaired after a rollover is like a couple cases here.
One was a Craftsman that was overturned by a storm that the operator just uprighted a week later and started cutting his grass. He stop for a soda and the engine would only spin on restart attempt. Both rods broke were broke. I think it was the total lack of engine oil that did it but I may have been wrong. Anyway I put an used engine from a mower I had acquired mainly for the Dana transaxle as another customer shattered his gear case on a Peerless. Very unusual for me to completely part out a mower but did sell both the transaxle and engine and later the front spindles and wheels.
The other was when another customer drove his JD 345 over a 2 ft concrete retaining wall. Just couldn't get the deck to work afterwards. Maybe it was because he ripped off the deck hangers and bent several pulleys. Kinda Glad I took up welding when I was a kid. Seems like I am always needing to do metal fabrication and welding.
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