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Last time I did a set of shift keys I charged the customer $ 30 ( Aus ) for the keys & $ 100 for labour. They ae quite similar to a motorcycle gear box which is also constant mesh. When you see how they work it will be blindingly obvious but trying t explain them never works. There are leverage points cast into the box, just take your time and you will be fine. Split your box apart, it is not difficult but it helps if you give it a good scrub or bath from a pressure washer first. When there is no load on the rear wheels the box works as it should but when there is load on it, it slips. You can get one from the K & T parts Warehouse Web page.
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More penetrating oil, more waiting, can't find my really big gear puller either!ĭo yourself a favour and download a copy of the Tecumseh/ peerless technical manual. Tried getting the rusted pulley off the gearbox but the circlip just disintegrated and the pulley wouldn't budge.
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Just waiting for the brake to free up! Might end up barrowing it to another neighbour and trying his oxy torch on it if MAPP gas doesnt help. Again I've lubed it up with penetrating oil and I'll come back to it. Last time I sheared the heads of both bolts I'm pointing to. The problem is the aluminium caliper and two fixing bolts etc become "one" through the corrosion. Needs to likely come off and go on this salvaged one. That's on, working a treat and all lubed up on my mower with the now suspect gearbox. It was this that stumped me for a while on mine until a mate in the States kindly sourced me a new caliper from over there. That won't move for me to check the gear changes until I can un-seize the brake which is solid.:
The gear change rod attaches to this lug atop the gearbox (yellow gearbox filler bung just behind): Actually easier than with the gear box in situ. Left it a couple of hours then the stuck wheel came off after some persuasion involving a pair of trestles, two pieces of 4x2, a drift and a hammer. Sat it upright with copious amounts 3 in 1 & penetrating oil on the end of the shaft hoping it'd seep down. The stuck wheel on my mower has the good tyre! Sods Law the stuck wheel on the salvage axle had the perished tyre. I still have to get the n/s off of mine, not done as its a mission but I'll have to now. I managed way back to get the o/s wheel off as it's that you have to remove to access the brake caliper. Lucky tbh it's not both wheels stuck as was the case with my mower under the tarp.
Typically as is the case with these mowers the n/s rear wheel was seized solid on the shaft of this salvaged gearbox/axle.
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Of the two salvaged wheels one pumped up OK to 10psi the other is all cracked and leaking like a sieve. The nuts and bolts that attach the gearbox have been put in an open topped plastic bag and lowered into the citric acid barrel for it to work it's magic.
The salvaged Peerless (American made) "crash" gearbox c/w wheels/tyres removed and back home sitting atop my mower after a cursory jet wash and attempt to pump the tyres up. I had permission to turn both over on their bonnets. There were in fact two similar mowers there. (Social distancing on a 5 acre plot is not an issue btw ). Went off to a neighbours yesterday to rescue the seemingly good gearbox from an abandoned mower that hit a stump and has the front end all bent up. It changes up/down OK but it feels like something is slipping in the gearbox, it's SO slow. Factory filled apparently with (mega expensive) Bentonite lubricant and then the casing sealed with "Permatex 599 Ultra Gray". Well.the repaired mower deck is good but the mower gearbox isn't well.