Mine is still like new yet and in perfect alignment, but I'm going to take it apart and do this mod for sure! No sense in waiting till it's bent. The tie rod ends need an upgrade too.
Saw other videos on bending them back and thought to myself "hey, why not weld a gusset on there". Great job. Thanks. There is also a mod to install bearings at the bottom of the knuckle to allow it to steer easier.
even small hits will knock it out. i already replaced everything else with wear potential. some really needed it after 300 running hours! i'll put my vise to use monday! on my 3rd set of front tires! getting zero play out of the front end seems impossible. or sears sold me used linkages!
they told me to just buy a new tractor. idiots work at sears, even 60 years later. not all of them, thankfully. i'd call them dumbasses, their managers would pat them on the back!
i bent mine by hitting concrete post digs on poles heaving out of the ground from 30+ years of winter thaws.5-6 inches out of the ground. no cardboard tubes were used for pours then! with heim joint wear, precise driving isn't happening. plus the field grass is too high to see the concrete, unless i drive very slow. which i do now. every 6-7 foot post needs reset! GRR!
Send that permanant fix to Craftsman please. I have a '96 model with the same damn problem . Twenty years is too long to keep doing the wrong thing for the Craftsman customers. Imho
I have a Craftsman KT 725 with a 22 HP Kohler engine. I have a front right tire wearing badly. Manual says that the toe-in is not adjustable. So is this the fix for one of those type riding mowers(7000 series)? If so, I could probably handle the bending part and if the repair to your second wheel is involved, I could get my son's father in law to make me a bracket since he's a semi retired welder. But if there's another fix for my model, do you have any suggestions? Thanks. Good video BTW!
I bought new ones, but my alignment is still out of whack. Should I just bend them until it’s back straight even though the spindles will be bent out of their normal shape?
Hello a question,I ordered the piston for my mower and I received two one is standard and one oversized,what’s the difference and whichvone I need to use
Probably the standard bore Piston will fit. Why are you changing it? The oversize piston is probably 0.010inch oversize. It will not fit unless you bring it to a machine shop that work on there motors. They will machine the right size bore to match the oversize piston.
@@WeekendHobbyMechanic Because I by the mower from somebody with broken engine,when I open the engine the piston rod and the piston I found cracked in a half and the cylinder scrached too much
Waaaaay too much work. The problem isn't those spindles bending anyway it's the tie rods simple fixes remove the tie rod from the spindle drilling new hole towards the front insert the tie rod back in and you're done. I've done a gazillion of those I never had anybody come back.
