Cliff_Johns
Elite Member
Just a "for fun" post.
Since it's March I decided it was time to do my fall maintenance on my JD LT166.
OK, so I'm a little late, but it went from mowing leaves to snow so fast last year, that I just didn't have a weekend to do it.
I bought a JD maintenance kit for my 1995 LT166. It had an air prefilter, an air filter, an oil filter, a gas filter, two spark plugs and 2 quarts of JD oil appropriate for my machine.
It's possible the plugs might have been replaced in 2000, but I don't really remember. I don't have a 5/8 inch socket deep enough so I didn't replace them yet this time either. Since I don't have a socket that will work, I doubt they've ever been replaced. I will as soon as I get to the store to get the socket (which is probably what I said the last time).
The kit came with no instructions, but I can't see needing any.
All went easily. Used the kit, greased the zerks, adjusted the timing of the blades by two belt teeth, releveled the deck.
The only hold up came when I tried to get the old oil filter off. I couldn't get it off by hand, so I went in to get an awl to punch through it, but my wife said I should just use the jar opener she has in the kitchen. Works a bit like a strap style oil filter wrench. It worked great!
Battery is ten years old and made it through another winter in it's tiny shed -- which is exactly big enough to hold the tractor. I never take the battery out of the tractor. I just go out and start it up and run it for twenty minutes a couple times each winter when the temprature is nice.
It's going to snow three inches tonight. I don't think my efforts caused it to get cold again, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Cliff
Since it's March I decided it was time to do my fall maintenance on my JD LT166.
OK, so I'm a little late, but it went from mowing leaves to snow so fast last year, that I just didn't have a weekend to do it.
I bought a JD maintenance kit for my 1995 LT166. It had an air prefilter, an air filter, an oil filter, a gas filter, two spark plugs and 2 quarts of JD oil appropriate for my machine.
It's possible the plugs might have been replaced in 2000, but I don't really remember. I don't have a 5/8 inch socket deep enough so I didn't replace them yet this time either. Since I don't have a socket that will work, I doubt they've ever been replaced. I will as soon as I get to the store to get the socket (which is probably what I said the last time).
The kit came with no instructions, but I can't see needing any.
All went easily. Used the kit, greased the zerks, adjusted the timing of the blades by two belt teeth, releveled the deck.
The only hold up came when I tried to get the old oil filter off. I couldn't get it off by hand, so I went in to get an awl to punch through it, but my wife said I should just use the jar opener she has in the kitchen. Works a bit like a strap style oil filter wrench. It worked great!
Battery is ten years old and made it through another winter in it's tiny shed -- which is exactly big enough to hold the tractor. I never take the battery out of the tractor. I just go out and start it up and run it for twenty minutes a couple times each winter when the temprature is nice.
It's going to snow three inches tonight. I don't think my efforts caused it to get cold again, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Cliff
