42" deck rebuild

[Goldnboy 746]

Well with winter upon us here I got bored a decided to start on rebuilding the 42 side discharge deck it has no ID tag but figure it must be a 5-1010. It uses d spindles and cast aluminum housings.

 

It has what appears to be the normal hole near the side exit which is why I am tearing it down. This spring I replaced the bearing and did temporary jb weld on the spindle bolt holes to get through the mowing season until a replacement is found.

[Goldnboy 746]

Got all the spindles and pulleys out without using any heat I was able to use the big electric impact to get the stubborn nuts off.  I have a lot of rust and pitting on the shell . Thinking about using jb weld to fill in the pitted areas.

Edited November 18, 2018 by Goldnboy

[KC9KAS 4,741]

Sand blast to clean it up, weld any holes/cracks then use 

[Ed Kennell 35,483]

When I rebuild decks, I always add 1/16" steel  reinforcement plates inside the deck  at the wheel carriage brackets.  Then bolt the bracket thru the deck and the new plate.  These plates can also usually be made to cover the rust holes.

[Goldnboy 746]

2 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

When I rebuild decks, I always add 1/16" steel  reinforcement plates inside the deck  at the wheel carriage brackets.  Then bolt the bracket thru the deck and the new plate.  These plates can also usually be made to cover the rust holes.

I was thinking the same thing on this one but curious to others thought on filling the hole with Jb weld steel stick or bondo first.

[The Tuul Crib 7,332]

 I just finished my 48 inch deck and had two holes in it. I put a small thin piece of steel on the inside and then took the wire welder and filled it in and then ground it smooth.Home Depot has something called plasti dip. Put it on the under side.

[Goldnboy 746]

Here one of two spindles I rebuilt with bearings in the spring. Apparently jb weld doesn't stick long to this because it was reformed around the bolt hole and it has just peeled off.  Now the bolt hole is cracked. Should I go old school and back to to cast iron spindles?

[Goldnboy 746]

Manage to get an afternoon to work on this while the spouse was out shopping. 

Was tons on rust and the dust is everywhere in the garage! I have pretty good hole to fill and the pitting on top.

[ohiofarmer 3,155]

The cast iron spindles idea is a good one. However, you need to make sure that the pulleys match up. If you get pulleys with the spindles, then no problem. A modern center drive pulley probably does not match up size wise or height wise to the old cast iron ones. Just take a close look at what you have before mixing the modern with the old.

 

 The center cast iron pulleys tend to break off at the base pulley on the double belt center pulley. they are getting rare and are expensive..

 

 I got a very troubled and abused deck with the 1056 i  just bought, but the spindles and pulleys are good enough to justify the entire price paid for the tractor

[Goldnboy 746]

Managed to get some time in now that the holidays are done. Got the top al cleaned down. There was a lot of pits hidden under the paint. I added a layer of HF epoxy to fill in the pits and is real smooth now. My brazing is now that good for this many indentations. I think this will solve the slide bar from sticking.

[Goldnboy 746]

Made progress on patching the hole and its painting time.

[Goldnboy 746]

Here is the final setup. Thanks to Lincoln at A-Z for the pulleys and belt guards. I even finished it off with Terry's decals. 

[peter lena 8,031]

nice work on that, if you regularly drop that deck and scrape it down , let the sun warm up the  bottom , thats just the opposed  of the life it lives , and then oil spray it down , you can retain all your work. metal of any kind needs a lubrication feed to stop the acid/ grass grunge build up. your finish work , deserves  a regular clean up and oil down , just my own experience, pete