The deal of the day

[nyquil junkie 287]

As I said previously... the logical thing to do was buy another one, right?

 

A few miles down the road, I found this one. It only made sense to bring it home.

 

It came with a pile of spare parts, some of them I dunno what they are.

 

 

Plus a packet of several original manuals and papers for it.  Plus spare tire chains.

 

It has a few minor issues... for one its out of line, I don't know how to adjust it, there are no adjusters.

 

 

And it didn't run, but I got it running, I think it has a few dirty grounds. All of it seems to work just fine. The brakes and the clutch are super sloppy and need adjusted. Its covered with dust from being in a corner of a garage, and needs a bath.

 

 

$300.

I need to remove the deck and sharpen the blades and pressure washer it all clean. Then I'll set it loose on a lot full of weeds.

 

 

[nyquil junkie 287]

[nyquil junkie 287]

[gwest_ca-(File Mod) 12,284]

The arm on the steering spindle is likely twisted. That is what happens when the tire runs into something it can't climb.

A closed up adjustable wrench on the flat bar can be used to twist it back into alignment. And it does not take much for a large improvement. I have broke the weld doing this.

[kpinnc 18,581]

2 hours ago, nyquil junkie said:

has a few minor issues... for one its out of line, I don't know how to adjust it, there are no adjusters.

 

1 hour ago, gwest_ca said:

The arm on the steering spindle is likely twisted.

 

 Yeah somebody whacked something pretty good, or it fell off a set of ramps or similar. 

 

If you can't bend the spindle back, they are fairly common from similar year model machines. And adjustable tie rods are always a nice upgrade! 

[nyquil junkie 287]

I have a set of wheel spindles that came with the 314A I just sold. Are they the same?

 

[kpinnc 18,581]

17 minutes ago, nyquil junkie said:

have a set of wheel spindles that came with the 314A I just sold. Are they the same?

 

Probably not. The 314A had 6 inch front wheels so the spindles will be 1 inch taller. They will fit, but will raise the nose by an inch which will greatly affect how a mower deck rides underneath as well as reduce how high any rear mounted implement will raise. 

 

You want spindles from a machine with wide 8 inch wheels. Then the only difference will be what retainer is used to hold the wheel. There were three types: bolt, e-clip, or cotter pin. Functionally no different but just something to consider.