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    How to Remove Rusted Wheel - Troy Bilt Tiller

    Mix 50/50 ATF and acetone. Put in an oil can and squirt it on. Keep applying to both sides, and shake the can every time, as the acetone and ATF will separate. Give it a day or two and it should come off. You can try heat first, but just enough to make the wheel center expand and not the axle shaft.
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    Popping front axle

    Just inside the wheels, where the knuckle pivots on the axle housing, there will be a u-joint so your axle can put power to the front wheels
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    Popping front axle

    how are your u-joints at the knuckle?
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    Bought a dirt cheap Rhino 554 as a spare parts tractor - New plan - get it into usable shape, after being parked outside for 20 years.

    Sounds like a good deal to me. Just needed a little love and attention.
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    2003 TC30 Won't Start

    If you used a Scotchlok like the video showed, those things invite corrosion. Fill that thing with anti-oxidant compound, found at most hardware stores in the electrical isle. Do not use dielectric grease, as it absorbs water. Then, wrap it in high quality electrical tape, like 3m super 88. Good...
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    Harbor Freight Predator 8750 Watt Open-Frame Inverter Generator Troubleshooting ideas

    Most predator engines, and a lot of other knock off brands are Honda clones. If the engine is roughly a 160 cc motor (around 5.5hp), buy Honda gx160 parts. Roughly 200cc equivalent is a GX200 (roughly 6.5hp). Our shop has repaired a lot of chinese motors with Honda parts, as all of our small gas...
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    Yanmar YM1510D – Front Wheel Assist Not Working

    Where Yanmar makes a lot of the smaller John Deere tractors, if you have a Yanmar part number, most likely the JD dealer can cross reference the part numbers and get one out of their warehouses. Your gonna pay more for it, but a parked tractor isn't worth much. I have crossed several JD parts to...
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    Small Live Stock Trailer

    Smells like fraud
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    What is this bearing?

    For the inner race to still be intact, you either have a broken shaft inside there somewhere, or a bearing was dropped during assembly and left in the bottom. the way the outer race is in pieces, there is a heck of a good chance there are teeth broken out on gears as well.
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    Can somebody help me identify this Planter? Thanks

    We had an old Oliver (can't remember the number) corn planter and a Ford 309 that look similar, but I was a kid back then. They came off my great grandads farm in Minnesota. I'll see if I can find any old photos to share...you have my interest now... Come to think about it, we also had a...
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    Odd starting problem; Bobcat e42 excavator

    A fully charged 12v battery should test at 12.7v-12.9v. The charging system, by way of the voltage regulator (built into the alternator), should be testing between 13 and 16 volts, dependent on what the battery needs. 16v seems high to me, but that's what I was taught in a class. Normal high to...
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    Ferris 810cc 26HP Vanguard Battery Constantly Dying?

    A fully charger 12v battery should test at 12.7v-12.9v. The charging system by way of the voltage regulator should be testing between 13 and 16 volts, dependant on what the battery needs. 16v seems high to me, but that's what I was taught in a class. Normal high to me is 14.5v. Anyway, I'm...
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    1845 problem

    Thanks for the reply Ponytug!
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    John Deere 310A backhoe hydraulic/transmission fluid eruption.

    I don't have chiggers here, so that never crossed my mind. Glad you got it together, hope it was the fix.
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