Recent content by skipmarcy

All you have to do to chase those threads is put some good old axle grease on your tap - and even if you were to get a tiny bit of aluminum in the cylinder, it will be gone quickly right out the exhaust valve. Many years ago I bought a 1962 Olds F85 with the all aluminum 215 c.i. V8 for $25...

I worked on mine over 18 years ago and I've slept since then, I'm 70 years old and my memory isn't quite as good as it used to be ! Like I said in my other post, my spool was worn too badly for it to work properly anymore so I've just held the joystick in the float position when I need it. Plus...

If your loader is a ML112, the rod has a large flat washer welded to it on the bucket end and mounts to the upper bucket pin. You can simply park your tractor on a good level spot, set your bucket down nice and flat/level and measure how long the rod needs to be to extend out the top of the tube...

OK, it was April 2005 that I purchased the ssqa adapter & bucket. I bought it thru a Mahindra dealer but it was manufactured & shipped from KMW in Kansas to me directly. #1304-3081 Tool Carrier ML108C/112E/114 #1300-3198 Bucket, 72" Series 15 SS Of course you know KMW...

I know it's a long time ago but I purchased the Mahindra ssqa "tool carrier" in 2004 for $600 for my ML112 loader. I also bought the Mahindra 6' qa bucket to go with it, also $600. My loader came new with a pinned 5' bucket and that was just wrong for a tractor that uses all 6' implements. The...

I would try some carb/choke spray, let it soak some/respray and try a plastic scraper - be sure not to get the choke spray on other plastic/rubber components. Brakleen is good for oily/greasy items but not so much on hardened caulks/putties. Brakleen is less harmful on MOST plastics/rubbers if...

The spool (the actual rod that moves back & forth thru the valve) has a radiused groove in it. Under the detent cap is a spring with a steel ball sitting on it that engages that groove when the spool is pushed all the way (forward on my 4110) and when ALL the parts are fresh it will catch &...

Fortunately for me my Country Clipper has the stand-up design and I clean under the deck after every mow, wet or "dry". Even in the hot, dry summer the grass will stick and it's worse to scrape off than when wet, more like a tar. I can stand the deck up manually in about 2 minutes and I use a...

My Country Clipper has non-greasable, iron, rebuildable spindles. Don't know if the bearings are fully sealed or non-sealed and factory packed w/grease but at 578 hrs. of cutting they are still smooth as a baby's arse with the deck belt off. Any bearings that come sealed I usually carefully...

Water heaters will make similar noises if you have sediment build-up getting close to the lower element and/or an anode rod gone.

Should have bought a joystick model, like my Country Clipper ! Operating arm on an armrest and using 2 fingers to mow. I can bend way over and operate around my fruit trees with those 2 fingers and not ever even need to weedeat there later. This my 11th season with it and wouldn't use anything...

On my very old Howse 6', the bolts also have a "pinched-up" key made into the tapered shoulder of the bolt to keep the bolt from turning which could be adding difficulty removing them. It's possible the bolt was/has spun and that key is wedging the bolt in even tighter. My personal opinion is a...

The govt. pot farm has been at Univ of Miss. in Oxford at least since the early 1970s, possibly before that.

Yes, being a retired auto mechanic I have a coffee can full of all kinds of plastic caps from stuff over the years and put a couple of snug caps over the fittings while disconnected. I doubt they would have drained much fluid, it comes from the valve on the steering column, but I did it mainly...

When the leakage on my steering cylinder finally got too bad I took it off and went to my small town hydraulic shop and had it re-sealed for $88, parts & labor about 7 or 8 years ago. They didn't even need to know what it came off of, just measured for the parts and did the work. 2001 Mahindra...