My tractor is killing me

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Hello lads..

I have been struggling with my mower for the past month, the electrics shorted and every time I pulled the deck switch to engage the blades it would blow the fuse, finillaly I just straight wired it which solved that particular problem but left me agitated.

So the other evening zipping around my yard cutting grass the deck started to shudder and smoke, through investigation the one bearing housing that holds the shaft for the blade was loose, so out came the spanners and hammers to have a look-see, its terminal…

On the bench, I removed the shaft from the housing, discovered one bearing exploded and balls must have pinged everywhere, had a challenging time to separate the inner race from the shaft as it had started to fuse itself to the spindle, so got all that done then off to the bearing store for new parts.

Started to install the new bearings and discovered this…..







I was livid, this thing landed on my exposed last nerve and was beating on it with a 2x4 with a nail in the end of it.













Ok. I plundered the steel rack looking for material to fix this thing, the thought of dealing with sears to purchase parts or trudge through Ebay just annoys me, so fixing it is then.








Should have done by tomorrow will keep you posted.

Anthony.