LS Tractor Owner
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- Joined
- May 1, 2017
- Messages
- 7,562
- Location
- Edgewood, NM
- Tractor
- LS XG3025 TLB, Previously MT125 TLB, Craftsman GTS6500
Started off this morning to do the first 50 hrs oil change. Started to loosen the oil drain plug, turning it out by hand, oil leaking around the bolt, only to find that it comes out about 3/4 of the way, then hits on the front axle center pivot! thought I could just jack up one side of the axle to rotate the mount. Started to take out the bolt and it still hit. Lowered the jack, took it out, and used the loader to lift the axle off the ground about 6" so that I could get full pivot on the axle. Started to get the bolt almost all the way out, and again hits the pivot. Now I'm pi***d off! Took the wrench and gave it a 1/2 turn to the point that it came out, crooked, but it was out. Now I'm covered in oil from my elbows down, sweating my a** off, and still pi***d off! Took the bolt over to the grinder and ground the flange off to just slightly larger than the washer. Put it back in and just barely went past the pivot ( had to use a wrench to get it past, but much easier. What should have been a 20 min job turned into 2 hours. You would think that LS could have engineered this a better way.