Whew! What a week+ it has been.....We have been planning on a visit from our Son and his wife and children, since they have been in Alaska, and then Las Vegas we have not had a chance to see them often, So last week 2 hours before I have to drive to the airport to pick up the daughter in law and the girls, ages 1 and 3, I am cutting grass and the huge ginormous mower decides to strip the drive hub on one of the front wheels. So now it is stuck out by the mailbox blocking the driveway...I had to walk back to the house about 1/3 mile away and get the golf cart and load up some tools, had to pull one of the rear decks off to jack the thing up and pull the wheel. once I got the wheel off I discovered that the main nut had become loose, the cotter pin was missing and the nut backed off and then the rocking back and forth etc wore the key to dust, but it also messed up the hub and the hyd motor shaft...I was able to use a piece of keystock and jam it in what was left of what was once a key slot, now just a huge crater..I was able to get it back to the house, but then I had to pay a guy to cut the rest of the grass.......Not sure how I am going to fix this one yet.
I did get to the airport on time, but spent an extra hour trying to find, and filling out paperwork for a lost stroller that was supposed to be gate checked in Dallas, but was left on the ramp....

The Boys arrived a couple days later after driving in from Vegas, with a truck and trailer load.
Then MamaGyro is on her way to the grocery store to get groceries for the big birthday throwdown, (Daughter in law's birthday) and the car quits, just stops, and she is stranded on the side of the road..
We picked her up and went grocery shopping, then my 2 sons and I went to get the car with the truck and trailer, looks like the crankshaft sensor crapped out,
Then went to fly the gyro and found the muffler cracked almost all the way around, in 2 places!!
At least I will be able to weld it when I get the welder up and running,
Dang I am going to be busy for the next month at least! Oh and it is still hotter than 40 hells
We did have a good visit, I just wasn’t counting on all the extra repair work all at once. LOL.

OUCH!!!!
Have you thought of picking up a hobby with that much free time on your hand?
Oh and before you forget....that piano needs tuning badly!
You can probably learn to do that too.....

I left out the part about the flat tire on the golf cart.....

Is that all....
I deal with Broken Stuff...Broken ppl.....Broken promises every day..........geesh!!

Some ppl have it easy.

Be glad you are not me!!

Elwood was the keyed motor shaft worn? We have taken motor shafts rotated them 180 degrees and milled another keyway. The wheel hub is going to be a bitch unless it has enough meat to bore and sleeve.

The problem is that the shaft is tapered, so was the hub....I will try to get some pics posted,

other than the keyway how does the shaft and hub look?
taper is a bitch but we've done it.
The bitch is a tapered broach guide shaft will have to fabbed for the hub.

That's the trouble with loose nuts.... very hard on the shaft.... so Scott, some advice for you...

Keep your nuts tight

OK Mr Muz, thanks for the advice, And the best way to loosen a tight nut is with a good wench.



I have been checking around, even used parts hard to find..

pack it full of J/B weld epoxy when dry torque the nut pin it and go. . .



quick & dirty

Funny you mentioned that, I thought "What would Gabor do?" JB WELD!
At least the JB would fill the gaps and keep it from shearing again.....maybe, at this point it would not hurt to try.

I have fixed more broken shit with JB Weld than McGuiver in the 24761415413 episodes!

Same thing happened to me this spring. New wheel motor - 800.00, New hub 200.00. If you take that wheel motor apart to repair or replace the 350.00 shaft it takes some kind of magic to put it back together. I'm glad I tried before I spent any money on the shaft. I tried welding the hub on the shaft but that didn't work either.
Bruce

I tried to price some motors, but the whole parts thing kind of sucks, I called from work and didn't have the model# etc. but they didn't have the parts anyhow.
The mower is a Ransomes, from the early 1990's, then Jacobsen bought them, and now I think Toro,
I could replace the shaft if I could find one, I mean it can't be any more difficult than any other hyd motor.. but finding a used motor and hub is the hard part, and new may not even be available..
I mean no matter what I do to try to fix it, it won't make it any worse.

Elwood here's a thought. Get one of these and put a belly mower on it.

https://youtu.be/9yHl24QynOM?t=46s

Dang Ray, that looks dangerous!!
I thought about going to the pawn shop and buying 5 push mowers and welding them together
with some angle iron and pulling them behind the golf cart.....

Did you notice the roll cage?

Hah! My son did that. He had a rider mower he pulled 3 mowers on a frame made of conduit.
The rider mower blade deck was worn out. We have sandy soil that eats an otherwise perfectly good mower up.
To replace the deck they want almost half the price of a new mower.

I would really like to get the newer version, the jacobsen AR5, but used they are still over $15k
about $60k new...maybe I can find a good deal on a newer one..

Wow! That thing have GPS steering like my son's John Deere tractors?

Pics of mower: