I noticed the gear box on my 5 ft Howse cutter was moving on the deck of the cutter.
checked the gearbox attachment bolts and they are loose. All other bolts on the cutter are attached with nuts that have plastic inserts, guess this is a way to save on lock nuts.
my problem:
how do I get to these nuts to hold them while trying to tighten up the bolt heads from the top of the deck???????????
I do not think I can take the stump jumper off, if so how would you do it???????? I looked under there and if I got the key out and nut off,
you know years of being in the wet grass and rust, that stump jumper housing is not going to come off easy and I have no wheel or gear puller that large.
I am sure on a cheap cutter like this, they did not drill and tap any holes in the stump jumper so you could attach a puller.
how would you get the stump jumper off the shaft of the gear box so you can get to the lower gear box attachment nuts??????????????
thinking outside the box here: flip it over and hang it upside down with chain around the stump jumper then heat the shaft area, but then my lower gearbox oil seal would be toast.
hopefully some one out there has taken a stump jumper off before and did not get hurt and will have some helpful hints in this area.
what nuts do I reinstall with, so this does not happen again, a lot of work to tighten up 4 bolts????
Thanks for any input,
cutter did a good job, got my cpr land cut off and now this. seem to be always something.
my goal: get it fixed properly so this does not happen again and not get hurt!!!!!!!!!!!
checked the gearbox attachment bolts and they are loose. All other bolts on the cutter are attached with nuts that have plastic inserts, guess this is a way to save on lock nuts.
my problem:
how do I get to these nuts to hold them while trying to tighten up the bolt heads from the top of the deck???????????
I do not think I can take the stump jumper off, if so how would you do it???????? I looked under there and if I got the key out and nut off,
you know years of being in the wet grass and rust, that stump jumper housing is not going to come off easy and I have no wheel or gear puller that large.
I am sure on a cheap cutter like this, they did not drill and tap any holes in the stump jumper so you could attach a puller.
how would you get the stump jumper off the shaft of the gear box so you can get to the lower gear box attachment nuts??????????????
thinking outside the box here: flip it over and hang it upside down with chain around the stump jumper then heat the shaft area, but then my lower gearbox oil seal would be toast.
hopefully some one out there has taken a stump jumper off before and did not get hurt and will have some helpful hints in this area.
what nuts do I reinstall with, so this does not happen again, a lot of work to tighten up 4 bolts????
Thanks for any input,
cutter did a good job, got my cpr land cut off and now this. seem to be always something.
my goal: get it fixed properly so this does not happen again and not get hurt!!!!!!!!!!!