ponytug
Super Member
Weird. Where does this piece go? I am having trouble visualizing how it would be spinning to grove like that.
All the best,
Peter
All the best,
Peter
Its a wear collar that slips over the axle and the seal rides on it. Its a sacrificial surface so you don't have to replace an axle shaft that's grooved. Look a few posts up where the shaft is wrapped in blue towels, the new bearing on it and just to the outside of it by the splines you see the new one.Weird. Where does this piece go? I am having trouble visualizing how it would be spinning to grove like that.
All the best,
Peter
You also realize that the fluid is how your bearings are lubed as well. Oil breaks down on heat and cooling cycles. I personally would change it at a minimum of the listed interval. I change mine now a days every 5 years..maybe a bit longer .No groves on either one of mine. Just an extremely hard seal. Micro pits was the only thing and why I left the Collar. Which I did go over with the Emory Cloth. Cleaned right up and not much Hyd. fluid loss in 10yrs. A pint or two maybe The few drips I do get if any now for some reason gets soaked up by the tire or cought by the wheel itself. No trace of it the next morning except on the wheel itself. Still best I just let it go which I had to at the time. Already have a bucket of new TSC. 303 equivalent. Never use the 3 point much. Lift the mower is about it so I'm going to 1000 hrs. before I change it. New Filter/Screen last Hyd. Serv. so I know I'm good there.
The Hyd. fluid at the bottom looked as thick as a Vanilla milk shake. I am not kidding!! .......
Walmart Distribution is not far from me. A couple miles so Local stores are well stocked with a few options. This was on sale Hydraulic Fluid Oil - Super S 303 5 Gallon Bucket - Walmart.com I'm after the JD303.... Crazy on the different options with todays needs. I flushed it a few times and a rag attached to a cloths hanger since the filter/screen was out.