I am in the middle of this and I found it’s much easier to loosen the bolts on the fan gear by taking the lock throttle peddle clamp off and loosening the bar that attaches to it. Then take the four bolts off the place so you can get your hands on the nuts on the back. I could not get those nuts loose on my 20 year tractor. I am waiting on the new parts to arrive. Hope it helps anyone looking at this.
At 6:20 there is another shaft bushing that can be replaced. Older models have a hex Oil-lite bushing which I prefer. I always grease those. The pinion gears usually wear on one end and can be reversed if you drill out the end slightly.
Awesome , that is great. You are completely right when you say that none of this can be seen until you disassemble the system. Are there any better systems that exist on maybe an older tractor that uses a real gearbox? A Vega gearbox is always good but they are expensive.That is what Taryl used on his mini jeep build. Here is an off the wall question. I just found a Bobcat (Ransome) walk behind mower to rebuild and hopefully use before I sell it. Are there any sources for belts that are inexpensive that you know about? It has dual belt pulleys.
Check your bushings - I had the lower one break at its base and it shoved the bushing up the steering column out of place and caused to much play and the gear stripped.
Dyna has a steering a little like that, . but better of course. . i tie the wheels together with a tie rod, . i run 4 wheeler tires up front. mostly deflated. it works so well with the read swing arm, i wont change to IFS. when your givin her the gundy in 4th, she waddles and digs in. ... Torque ...
They make sure the parts were out on that front end don't they I heard the Craftsman Magnum 6000 GT supposed to wear out the same way I don't know if it's true you might be able to tell me thank you for the video
This is a terrible design by John Deere in my opinion, the pivot bolt in front of pinion gear is metal to metal,if u get it too tight it will barely move, but too loose n all kinds of play causing it to wear out faster, but good video by you. Thanks.
I had to do this a few months ago. I did the usual, watch a YT video or two all of which described a procedure similar to yours. Getting those nuts back on the bolts was a real feat of hand gymnastics and my knuckles were worse for wear. I didn't expect it to be that difficult and after it was done I wondered if it would've been quicker and easier to drop the plate on which the fan gear is bolted. Is there any reason not to do it that way?
That gear just slid right off for you - from the steering shaft - mine is stuck on there - any idea? wd 40? I'm going to just flip mine around until I can get the kit
I didn't think u could flip the gear around because of the gear design, several videos I have heard people say that, I tried mine and couldn't flip gear, I guess maybe you could grind grooves out on gear, idk. Did you have luck flipping yours?
BTW @@davidl2281 Make sure if you replace the parts you tighten everything up very well. I was having slipping issues in the steering and come to find out the nut holding the gear to the steering wheel was loose - I tightened it and it's working good but I bet I have to replace it sooner now than later.
What my though on that type of steering is ok for round the Yard its just my opinion but I would rather use rack & pinion that would fit on a go kart's
I replaced the steering arms when I did my john Deere LA 175 along with everything else and half way through the mowing season they failed so I put the original one back on. That design is terrible.
