I bought an old Machete 540 RPM PTO-driven wood chipper this summer. It works great, and I'm really happy with it. However, it appears there was a crack in the PTO drive shaft where it connected to the coupling, and I ended up shearing the shaft.
I thought, "no problem, I'll just replace the...
I inherited a John Deere 318 that was working fine. I had to replace a battery cable because the terminal clamp was broken. Everything seemed fine, and it started up and ran after the replacement fine. Then I saw smoke that smelled like burning plastic. I disengaged the battery cables, and...