Posted by n9viw on April 25, 2009 at 18:26:09 from (75.107.106.100):
Hey all,
I currently have the above-mentioned Noma (now Murray), which I got for free from a church. It has a 12HP Briggs and a 38" dual-blade belly deck. The engine runs well, but the rack-and-pinion steering is sloppy, and the drive slips in 4th and 5th. Okay, not so bad, I just mow slowly and steer carefully!
This spring, I fired it up and set to mowing the lawn. Halfway through my first row, the deck set to rumbling, then growling, and before I could shut it off, started banging. Long story short, the upper bearing on one of the two mower quills blew out, the balls of which bound up and cracked the quill housing, which then pitched the blade into the deck.
The quill housing is cast aluminum, but no one around here will TIG weld it because the bearing damage may have cracked it elsewhere. I tried ordering just the housing from Murray, but they only sell the quills as complete assemblies, from pulley to blade carrier. $130 later, one"s on its way to me right now, just to get the lawn done.
A friend of mine is willing to sell me his IH Cub Cadet 1650 for $800. It"s got a 42" deck with new blades, and it runs, but the engine shakes (he"s got new mounts for it, hopefully that"ll fix it but we don"t know) and it uses oil inside and out (bad rings, bad seals). It has no PTO, and I don"t know a) if I need one, and b) what it"d take to put one on. I"d mostly just use it for mowing in the summer and plowing snow in the winter.
Does this sound like a good deal? $800 seems awful high to me, but checking the recent sale prices here, working Cadets of various models go anywhere from $250 on up to $1200. What"s fair? Is a smoke-blowing, shaking Cadet better than a good-running Murray with two bad speeds?
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