Whew...that was an education. Thank you multimow for all that info, it will surely come in handy in the next few weeks.
I picked up my new/used deck today from Craigslist. It is in pretty good shape, some cracks, dents, bends...the usual abused equipment issues. The good news is there is little to no rot, lots of rust, but no cancer issues.
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The deck as received.
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Standard 72” SD. 30721 model number.
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Going to have to spend some quality time with the mig to fix the cracks and reattach various skid pads and such.
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Spindles pulled. Not looking forward to doing this on the rotted decks I’m going to be using for parts. These were hard enough to get off and there wasn’t much rust.
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Straightening the front and back lips with a couple plates of steel and a pipe wrench. The back lip is bent bad and going to take some engineering to straighten out. Will weld some thick plate steel to the outside that sticks out past the deck so I can get a leverage arm on it to bend the lip back in.
I might start a new thread when I begin going over my 322 and 325 getting them ready for front line service...or should I do that here? What are the sop’s for that?
Multimow, I’m beginning to worry about this driveshaft issue you brought up. I think I might have a problem, will find out on Friday I guess.