I like the video. I've been looking for one showing how to disassemble (get the shafts out) but unfortunately you started the video after that point. Might be worth posting extra footage if you have it. Thanks for the detailed assembly!
When I got the mower it had lost a bearing and destroyed a lot of what was inside. A friend at work took it apart. Besides driving the bearing out, he said that if the race is still stuck in you can tack weld a couple spots and the race will shrink and fall out.
The tubular spacer between the two bearings on the vertical output shaft is badly designed. It's a plain tube with no holes in the wall so it means gear oil trapped between the outside of the tube and the gearbox case cannot circulate. When I overhauled my gearbox I cut 4 slots about 25mm (approx 1inch) long and 13mm (approx 1/2 inch) wide in the bottom of the tube at 90 degrees to each other. This allows the oil to pass either side of the tube, meaning all of the oil in the gearbox circulates around, maximising the life of the oil as well as the gearbox.
Very helpful and the only installation of the lower output shaft into a gearbox that I have found. Thanks for your time.
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I like the video. I've been looking for one showing how to disassemble (get the shafts out) but unfortunately you started the video after that point. Might be worth posting extra footage if you have it. Thanks for the detailed assembly!
When I got the mower it had lost a bearing and destroyed a lot of what was inside. A friend at work took it apart. Besides driving the bearing out, he said that if the race is still stuck in you can tack weld a couple spots and the race will shrink and fall out.
The tubular spacer between the two bearings on the vertical output shaft is badly designed. It's a plain tube with no holes in the wall so it means gear oil trapped between the outside of the tube and the gearbox case cannot circulate. When I overhauled my gearbox I cut 4 slots about 25mm (approx 1inch) long and 13mm (approx 1/2 inch) wide in the bottom of the tube at 90 degrees to each other. This allows the oil to pass either side of the tube, meaning all of the oil in the gearbox circulates around, maximising the life of the oil as well as the gearbox.