rignerd
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I bought a used county line 4 foot brush hog (RC4 or RCGR4) and noticed that the tail wheel shaft seemed too long for the bearing tube. The tube is about 3 3/4 inches long and the shaft is about 6 1/2, the shaft is 1.25 inches in diameter and the tube is just slightly bigger. Before i used it I took it apart cleaned it up and stacked more washers in it to take up some of the slack and I replaced the cotter pin with a lynch pin to make it easy to service and maybe handle the load better. After about 6 hours of hard use the tail wheel dropped off and I backed over it. So lesson 1 is don't use a lynch pin, it will get caught up in the brush and fall out.
Looking for new tailwheel assemblies I'm seeing the 1-1/4 diameter shaft units and they all have a 6-7 inch length, so that makes me wonder if I'm assembling it right, or getting the right parts. Should it have a few inches of movement up and down, or be shimmed to just a bit of slack? Manual PDF attached for reference.
Looking for new tailwheel assemblies I'm seeing the 1-1/4 diameter shaft units and they all have a 6-7 inch length, so that makes me wonder if I'm assembling it right, or getting the right parts. Should it have a few inches of movement up and down, or be shimmed to just a bit of slack? Manual PDF attached for reference.
