Tchamp
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About a month ago, I started having my steering unit leak on my green machine (that’s what my wifes name is for my 2425) It wasn’t that bad at the time so I decided to wait before I pulled it off and had it serviced through Power Trac.
Last week One of my drive motors started blowing oil out of the front seal so I decided it was time to park the machine pull the steering unit and the drive motor out and send them both to Taswell to get repaired. Terry and his team did an awesome job, they had the pumps repaired and on their way back to me within 24 hours.
While i had the drive motor and the steering unit out, I decided to go ahead and pull the engine, check my Lovejoy couplings and clean out and pressure wash the engine compartment. While I was in there, I inspected my hoses and found one that had chaffing. It had exposed the braided metal but had not worn into the braided metal. I put a split hose on it wrapping it at that spot and tie wrapped it to protect it. All the other hoses looked ok. I pulled out my parking brake cables, clean, serviced, lubricated and put another set of springs on them so they would work properly. (I had only one side working. so now my parking is working correctly).
I found that on one of my Lovejoy couplings the rubber star in the smaller pump assembly was cracked so I ordered another one to replace it. I’m waiting for the parts to come back at the moment so I can put it all back together. I also ordered an extra cooler (bought one on eBay for a good price) and I’m going install it on my machine in addition to the one it already has as well. I use it a lot and I have noticed when it’s warm in the summertime that I lose power because of the heat. So i adding an additional cooler to cool the oil downeven more. I don’t have on yet, but I will post pics later. I have pics of my machineof the before, and after on the cleaning see below.
I also had to replace the coils and diode wiring harness on my engine so that my engine would shut off properly. It quit shutting off properly because the diode in the harness was bad. It would only shut off when I turned the key off and the fuel solenoid cut the fuel off to the carburetor, then it would run out of fuel and shut off.
I am trying to take advantage of the down time and do everything that needs to be done while it is down.
Last week One of my drive motors started blowing oil out of the front seal so I decided it was time to park the machine pull the steering unit and the drive motor out and send them both to Taswell to get repaired. Terry and his team did an awesome job, they had the pumps repaired and on their way back to me within 24 hours.
While i had the drive motor and the steering unit out, I decided to go ahead and pull the engine, check my Lovejoy couplings and clean out and pressure wash the engine compartment. While I was in there, I inspected my hoses and found one that had chaffing. It had exposed the braided metal but had not worn into the braided metal. I put a split hose on it wrapping it at that spot and tie wrapped it to protect it. All the other hoses looked ok. I pulled out my parking brake cables, clean, serviced, lubricated and put another set of springs on them so they would work properly. (I had only one side working. so now my parking is working correctly).
I found that on one of my Lovejoy couplings the rubber star in the smaller pump assembly was cracked so I ordered another one to replace it. I’m waiting for the parts to come back at the moment so I can put it all back together. I also ordered an extra cooler (bought one on eBay for a good price) and I’m going install it on my machine in addition to the one it already has as well. I use it a lot and I have noticed when it’s warm in the summertime that I lose power because of the heat. So i adding an additional cooler to cool the oil downeven more. I don’t have on yet, but I will post pics later. I have pics of my machineof the before, and after on the cleaning see below.
I also had to replace the coils and diode wiring harness on my engine so that my engine would shut off properly. It quit shutting off properly because the diode in the harness was bad. It would only shut off when I turned the key off and the fuel solenoid cut the fuel off to the carburetor, then it would run out of fuel and shut off.
I am trying to take advantage of the down time and do everything that needs to be done while it is down.
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