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Despite the boiling heat approaching, I had a lovely day pottering around the garage.
Sometimes the cards all go your way, because as soon as I had finished attending to a couple of little things, the delivery truck that I was expecting to arrive today turned up at just the right time......................
NEW MOWER DAY!!
Nearly four years of procrastination, I finally jumped in the deep end to see what these machines are like. This makes it mower number eleven in the fleet, the hope is for it to take the place of the mighty Rover ProCut, easily the best contractor mower ever created.
Assembled, oiled and fueled, I decided to use up some left-over ceramic coating on the thing. I mean, why not?
I'm currently waiting for the coating to cure, the first mow will have to wait.
After getting the new ready for action, I turned attention to the old.
As discovered when I replaced the drive cogs on the Rover, the wheel backing plates were damaged and letting too much debris to enter the drive systems rotating assembly. After scouring the internet proved fruitless, I sent emails to a couple of mower shops pleading my case. All but one couldn't help, but and I now have two replacement wheel backing plates.
So, it was off with the wheel and drive cogs, a now familiar process.
The backing plate is secured by a single pop rivet, which I drilled out.
The new parts didn't have the hole for the rivet, so I put the new cover on the machine, offered up the old one and used it as the guide. After trying to secure the new cover with bolts I had in stock, I gave up and had to go out and get some replacement rivets.
With the new backing plates fitted, I applied grease to the axle and drive shaft, re-installed the drive cogs and pawls, followed by the wheels and a slug of graphite powder added to lubricate the cogs.
A quick test run to verify the repair, and its driving both wheels and seems to be producing less noise as the old plates were scraping against something.
So, one repaired mower, and one brand new mower.
Sometimes the cards all go your way, because as soon as I had finished attending to a couple of little things, the delivery truck that I was expecting to arrive today turned up at just the right time......................
NEW MOWER DAY!!
Nearly four years of procrastination, I finally jumped in the deep end to see what these machines are like. This makes it mower number eleven in the fleet, the hope is for it to take the place of the mighty Rover ProCut, easily the best contractor mower ever created.
Assembled, oiled and fueled, I decided to use up some left-over ceramic coating on the thing. I mean, why not?
I'm currently waiting for the coating to cure, the first mow will have to wait.
After getting the new ready for action, I turned attention to the old.
As discovered when I replaced the drive cogs on the Rover, the wheel backing plates were damaged and letting too much debris to enter the drive systems rotating assembly. After scouring the internet proved fruitless, I sent emails to a couple of mower shops pleading my case. All but one couldn't help, but and I now have two replacement wheel backing plates.
So, it was off with the wheel and drive cogs, a now familiar process.
The backing plate is secured by a single pop rivet, which I drilled out.
The new parts didn't have the hole for the rivet, so I put the new cover on the machine, offered up the old one and used it as the guide. After trying to secure the new cover with bolts I had in stock, I gave up and had to go out and get some replacement rivets.
With the new backing plates fitted, I applied grease to the axle and drive shaft, re-installed the drive cogs and pawls, followed by the wheels and a slug of graphite powder added to lubricate the cogs.
A quick test run to verify the repair, and its driving both wheels and seems to be producing less noise as the old plates were scraping against something.
So, one repaired mower, and one brand new mower.
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