1693TA
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Boat left yesterday afternoon to a very happy customer. Temperatures are supposed to nosedive pretty much by the weekend so he's hoping to get a bit of duck hunting in today and tomorrow. Said that given the black the bottom is finished in he's not going to do anything else to it.
Decided to pull the deck from my Woods mower as it's never been off the power unit to give it a good evaluation. Both universal joints for driving the deck are non serviceable types and have wear so going to replace. The splines the driveshaft slips onto was an ordeal to get loose and ultimately took a 10# slide hammer and hook to get it free. Like a tractor PTO overrunning clutch, there is a collar you pull back and it should easily pull from the splines but this one has no provision for greasing and was rusted/stuck fast. I'll get this stuff addressed while it's apart over the winter months.
Figured while I had it broken apart I'd go ahead and knock all the weeks and grime out of it. This photo is so I could get under without any stands in the way. I stood the mower up to about a 45 degree angle and worked well but the next time I think I'll just hang the power unit from the gantry crane so it hangs vertical. The battery is a gell cell, and of course the engine oil needs drained first but this is a maintenance type action so would be done at the same time. Takes all of about 3 minutes to remove the deck so really not too difficult to do good routines.
Prototyping and surveying for a lift point I initially used the engine lifting bails:
I didn't think to snap photos when I had it to maximum lift but I'd wrapped to the rear frame and run the car lift all the way up to gain unobstructed access underneath. It worked well.
Decided to pull the deck from my Woods mower as it's never been off the power unit to give it a good evaluation. Both universal joints for driving the deck are non serviceable types and have wear so going to replace. The splines the driveshaft slips onto was an ordeal to get loose and ultimately took a 10# slide hammer and hook to get it free. Like a tractor PTO overrunning clutch, there is a collar you pull back and it should easily pull from the splines but this one has no provision for greasing and was rusted/stuck fast. I'll get this stuff addressed while it's apart over the winter months.
Figured while I had it broken apart I'd go ahead and knock all the weeks and grime out of it. This photo is so I could get under without any stands in the way. I stood the mower up to about a 45 degree angle and worked well but the next time I think I'll just hang the power unit from the gantry crane so it hangs vertical. The battery is a gell cell, and of course the engine oil needs drained first but this is a maintenance type action so would be done at the same time. Takes all of about 3 minutes to remove the deck so really not too difficult to do good routines.
Prototyping and surveying for a lift point I initially used the engine lifting bails:
I didn't think to snap photos when I had it to maximum lift but I'd wrapped to the rear frame and run the car lift all the way up to gain unobstructed access underneath. It worked well.