Howse 6' mower gear box leaking

[usmc5595]

My Howse 6' mower is leaking gear oil. I was running the grade 2 shear pins and then I remembered the sales man saying grade 5 for this shredder. Long story short I put a grade 5 in and let my son go mow a 28 acre field with big grass and saplings now my gear box is leaking. The gear box has a small leak on the input/output shafts. The mower is about 7 months old.

The stump jumper has about 1/4" vertical play in it. The second pic the input shaft has a sludge/grease coming out of it and there is grease/sludge coming out of the output shaft area. The third pic is of the grease covered bolt on the stump jumper.

Is this normal? I am going to go back to #2 bolt until I can get a slip clutch. What do y'all think?

 

[sweettractors]

I have the seals for that box and also the add on slip clutch if you need them. Stay with grade 2 shear bolts. Ken Sweet

 

[usmc5595]

I have the seals for that box and also the add on slip clutch if you need them. Stay with grade 2 shear bolts. Ken Sweet

does this sound like a breather issue? how much for a slip clutch?

 

[sweettractors]

I just sent you a PM. Ken Sweet

 

[usmc5595]

I just sent you a PM. Ken Sweet

Hey guess what? I got more HOWSE problems.

This thing is not even a year old. I checked with the warranty people. They were nice but have not called me back, we'll see I guess

 

[sweettractors]

Good luck with that warranty claim. Can your selling dealer help you in any way? Ken Sweet

 

[blueriver]

Don't think I'd let him mow anymore ....

 

[clemsonfor]

Thats what happens to a light duty mower, you need to repair it everyso often, thats why the price is low. You need to know how to weld and wrench if your cutting anything more than overgrown yard grass. The weld just leed to be rewelded after you straighten it. I would put cutter on tractor and push it against sonething like a tree and then reweld that busted weld and then put some additional bracing on it.

My gearbox on my cheap Jbar is leaking to not 6 months after i got it. It has nothing to do with the manufacture your son or the grade 5 bolt. The get vines and grass and sticks twisted around the shaft that if not removed will work their way up the shaft and cut the rubber in the seal causing fluid to leak out. Mine will totally drain in a little over a day. Howse will proably give you a new seal but thats it, its not their fault a brier or vine wrapped up on your shaft and you did not remove it causing damage, the weld they could say was negligence or help you on that? Your son was just moving so it could have been you, now if he was in high 3 or something and got hung on a stump causing the break thats negligence. A grade 2 or 5 bolt will not matter to the seal or the cutter all that will do is not break as easy if you go to a 5, meaning if you hit a big ***** rock you may break something internal in the tractor before the bolt breaks. I would put a 2 back in it, but the 5 has nothing to do with the weld or the oil. I think they recomend a grd 5 over 40 hp or so, but not sure.

 

[CCOUGHRAN1]

Just had a dealing with Howse on a 6' 606 mower yesterday. Jim at Howse confirmed to use Grade 5 bolt.

 

[usmc5595]

Thats what happens to a light duty mower, you need to repair it everyso often, thats why the price is low. You need to know how to weld and wrench if your cutting anything more than overgrown yard grass. The weld just leed to be rewelded after you straighten it. I would put cutter on tractor and push it against sonething like a tree and then reweld that busted weld and then put some additional bracing on it.

My gearbox on my cheap Jbar is leaking to not 6 months after i got it. It has nothing to do with the manufacture your son or the grade 5 bolt. The get vines and grass and sticks twisted around the shaft that if not removed will work their way up the shaft and cut the rubber in the seal causing fluid to leak out. Mine will totally drain in a little over a day. Howse will proably give you a new seal but thats it, its not their fault a brier or vine wrapped up on your shaft and you did not remove it causing damage, the weld they could say was negligence or help you on that? Your son was just moving so it could have been you, now if he was in high 3 or something and got hung on a stump causing the break thats negligence. A grade 2 or 5 bolt will not matter to the seal or the cutter all that will do is not break as easy if you go to a 5, meaning if you hit a big ***** rock you may break something internal in the tractor before the bolt breaks. I would put a 2 back in it, but the 5 has nothing to do with the weld or the oil. I think they recomend a grd 5 over 40 hp or so, but not sure.

There were no vines stuck or wrapped around the input or out put shaft, not sure how you got that out of what I wrote? To me it looks like the crack is just above the weld. I think that the weld was to hot and made the metal brittle.

If a person buys a machine and uses it as it is intended and it breaks down repeatedly within a couple of months then it is the manufactures fault in my opinion. I can and do "weld and wrench". This model is the 606H, the "H" is for heavy. I think it should make it more than 6 months without a stress fracture and 2 leaking seals.