zx6rrider
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Recently purchased a used JD 2210 with a FEL and 62" belly mower. I bought this for my wife to use, figuring that a "Good" name like JD and lower time tractor should be pretty reliable for her without me having to work on it all the time. She put a little over 10 hours on it when I borrowed it from her when she was mowing. The over temp light was on so I asked her how long it has been on but of course she didnt know it was on at all, too busy watching where she was mowing. I took it to the garage and blew the radiator and side covers out, let it cool and added coolant as it had spilled out the overflow bottle. I hoped that since it got hot, it just boiled out. I got on it a couple days ago and noticed that the valves were ticking, shut it off and added oil to bring it up to full and the tick went away. Got looking into it and noticed the coolant was low again and what was left was dark so obviously got a blown gasket. I added water to see if the raditor had bubbles and sure enough there was.
I got around to tearing it down this morning and got the head off, that is going to go to the machine shop tomorrow to get checked out. The one cylinder wall has some scaring so I will pull the piston, hone it and measure...hoping I can get by with just rings. Good ol' JD said it will take at least 2 weeks to get a manual, fortunantly I found the Yanmar manual online so that covers me for the torques I need. Ill by the parts through Yanmar I guess, hopefully cheaper then JD
Is this a common problem on these or am I just unlucky? There was some RTV on the valve cover and a couple other spots so somebody has been there before, maybe it was bad when I bought it. All the fluids looked good and I made sure they were topped off before letting her start using it. Dont understand how they can have saftey switches all over the place but just an idiot light for overheating, why the heck couldnt that cut off the tractor?
This is my first tractor engine adventure, play with bikes and planes so I'm handy but always open for any advice as I couldnt find much elsewhere as far as rebuilding these engines.
I got around to tearing it down this morning and got the head off, that is going to go to the machine shop tomorrow to get checked out. The one cylinder wall has some scaring so I will pull the piston, hone it and measure...hoping I can get by with just rings. Good ol' JD said it will take at least 2 weeks to get a manual, fortunantly I found the Yanmar manual online so that covers me for the torques I need. Ill by the parts through Yanmar I guess, hopefully cheaper then JD
Is this a common problem on these or am I just unlucky? There was some RTV on the valve cover and a couple other spots so somebody has been there before, maybe it was bad when I bought it. All the fluids looked good and I made sure they were topped off before letting her start using it. Dont understand how they can have saftey switches all over the place but just an idiot light for overheating, why the heck couldnt that cut off the tractor?
This is my first tractor engine adventure, play with bikes and planes so I'm handy but always open for any advice as I couldnt find much elsewhere as far as rebuilding these engines.