Dropped Plastic Gas Nozzle into the Tank - Suggestions?

[Spudland_Dave]

So I decided to look at the MMM itself - found the issue - apparently the last bump I hit that really shook the unit, cause the MMM to jog back into a position where it got hit by the tractor and it bent the shell enough to stop the blade. It is close but I never had an issue before. So I took the mower deck off and then I banged on the inside of the shell until the blade would clear. hooked it back up and tried it out - works ok, but now I have the blade on the right side occasionally impacting the shell when the unit leans to the right So I gotta take the MMM off again and bang it a bit more - or buy another used deck

Hate to be the bearer of potentially bad news...but my experience with various mowers is that when you bend it enough to tweak a spindle, no matter what you try, that deck will never be the same...Burning up belts, blade issues, cut quality, bearing issues...all potentially possible "after" repair results..of course I havent seen where it got tweaked, If you just punched a big dent in the shell which is contacting the blade, you should be fine after punching the dent out....

 

[Nuru]

Hate to be the bearer of potentially bad news...but my experience with various mowers is that when you bend it enough to tweak a spindle, no matter what you try, that deck will never be the same...Burning up belts, blade issues, cut quality, bearing issues...all potentially possible "after" repair results..of course I havent seen where it got tweaked, If you just punched a big dent in the shell which is contacting the blade, you should be fine after punching the dent out....

Hello Dave, yeah after consulting with my local dealer's service shop, I think i backed over a cut stump that was not very visible to me and it bent my shell. I am gonna look underneath on Saturday morning and then see where it is making contact, and bang it out a bit more. I am also gonna make sure the spindle is not bent by doing a visual check with the deck off of the unit by measuring where the spindles are in relation to each other - the two on the outside should be in the same location - not one being forward or backward of the other one. In this case the right one should not be out of place.

 

[Nuru]

update, well after two Saturdays of banging with the sledge hammer, my deck is working fine again! I tried a drain camera in the tank but very limited progress. I will either drain the tank or just wait until I use up more fuel to get a better look, so I can see where that nozzle is located and then extract it.

 

[mguitas]

I know this is an old thread, but getting a cap out of your tank is easy, just drain the tank get the right tool to grab it an out it goes.A 12 dollar product on amazon did the trick.