wheel switch wasn\'t power problem
I had posted in the hot topic about my experience switching my wheels and how I had some power loss. I did some tinkering and eventually found the problem.
First, I changed the hydrolic oil filter. I tried it out mowing, and still had the power loss. Back to the garage.
By this time, I was running low on gas, so the first thing I did was open the gas tank. Low and behold, the cork gasket under the opening had broken up and pieces of it was floating in the tank. I removed the tank, gas line, and filter. Cleaned it all out. Got a new gasket and filter. Put it all back together, and went back for another test mow. That should do it? No. But, the test run did tell me something. The treadle was very lose. I found that if I kept my feet in a certain position, I didn't experience the power loss. Something was wrong with the treadle. Hopefully, I could fix it.
I took it back to the garage and removed the plates giving me access to the treadle. I started scooping out the built up debris from mowing. With no lack of luck, I discovered a tiny hex screw as I was scooping out the debris. I proceeded a little more carefully and found the other one. Thank the PT gods I did not discard them with the rest of the debris, or lose them mowing. I found the holes that they went to and put them back, holding the throttle assembly secure.
I thought about putting some locktite on them, but all I have is red, and decided that in the future I may need to get them out again to work on the assembly. If I had blue I probably would have used it. They must have slowly worked their way out because I hadn't noticed the treadle was so lose until that last run.
I had posted in the hot topic about my experience switching my wheels and how I had some power loss. I did some tinkering and eventually found the problem.
First, I changed the hydrolic oil filter. I tried it out mowing, and still had the power loss. Back to the garage.
By this time, I was running low on gas, so the first thing I did was open the gas tank. Low and behold, the cork gasket under the opening had broken up and pieces of it was floating in the tank. I removed the tank, gas line, and filter. Cleaned it all out. Got a new gasket and filter. Put it all back together, and went back for another test mow. That should do it? No. But, the test run did tell me something. The treadle was very lose. I found that if I kept my feet in a certain position, I didn't experience the power loss. Something was wrong with the treadle. Hopefully, I could fix it.
I took it back to the garage and removed the plates giving me access to the treadle. I started scooping out the built up debris from mowing. With no lack of luck, I discovered a tiny hex screw as I was scooping out the debris. I proceeded a little more carefully and found the other one. Thank the PT gods I did not discard them with the rest of the debris, or lose them mowing. I found the holes that they went to and put them back, holding the throttle assembly secure.
I thought about putting some locktite on them, but all I have is red, and decided that in the future I may need to get them out again to work on the assembly. If I had blue I probably would have used it. They must have slowly worked their way out because I hadn't noticed the treadle was so lose until that last run.
