OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Tip & Curb Side Finds gonna try to fix this with this

i have an effinity with hammers. so you recon if i hit it hard enough the pully will come off past the thread?

yup just dont hit the thread and dont do it 1st to the one with pulley , never practise on stuff ya wanna keep
one or 2 sharp hard hits should do it though or again with the soaking wd or penetrene

(and no i dont use milk cartons was only for a demo')

this motor is toast should i practice on this

sure why not same deal really , same tools in the same way

well ill be.
Am excited now but the missus has said no to banging around in the backyard for the night.
where is the best place to spray WD40 thread or behind.
Your advise is gold vccomm cheers. may still need a bearing puller to get the flywheel off the 18

phew that was easy huh !! goodonya mate now you know its not hard next time
sort of .if the 18's still soaking it might budge now too with a little help . i've never used a puller here but maybe i'm just the lucky one
yes my cook thought im nuts outside in rain tonight looking for an engine too

She is not happy, i told her i was going to put my tools away no more banging.

great advice on practicing, the pully was quite difficult. you can probably see where i near missed,will file them down later.
I dont want to go to work tomorrow to work on this mower have had it for years.
cheers mate

no wprries , dont forget those spacers though huh see them on the orig' engine under the crankcase nuts ?
good time too do a rebuild now hahaha find out what the noise was in the old one

Vccomm do you know anything about this setup.


dont know if i should pull it apart to see if i need to put grease or what in.

not a lot no sorry , the ones i had were well past it when they got here , only saved the engines and a few bits . only selfdrives i worked on were hondas n rovers , they a pita enough . im sure blumby does though , very simillar to the autodrive and take a special belt too not just a normal V belt , another member ended up with the drive unit from one of mine .. scrapped the rest was beyond it
so i'll pass on the drive setup

The back wheels turn fine with no bad sound i am scared about pulling it apart just to see

does it look like it leaked ? i think but not sure just full of grease , so if its not broken .......... just need a belt then

it doesnt look like it has leaked cant remember where i put the belt but will look tomorrow. too bloody cold man.
I am only a couple of steps away from getting this one going.
Am watching rambo to inspire me.
cheers mate

he would have just shot off the boss hahaha

I did enough damage to it too belive that

Vccomm they have different shaft sizes i cant fit the pully on

What to do? is there an adaptor boss??

so same length but different diameter ? well now we both learned something .. so now its looking like you do your 1st tear down see whats wrong inside which isn't normally too much
aaaaaaah , i found before the side pulls did have a different crank though , do you have another good side pull 80 series ? if so , check that out , one here but too hard to send up there

I did but i pulled it apart to put the first one together aaahhhh. its practice i suppose

seems so yes . its tinker time !! nice to know what the noise was though huh

I have been thinking all day about this issue.
1. can I just use the smaller boss.

2. Weld a couple of beads around it to make it fit.

nope , it will weaken it and distort it too so if it does go back on might never come off again .
just pull the head n barrel and have a little looksee , even totalled inside you can use everything from other engines except the crank .
new bearings and seals and you have yourself a new engine for very little cost maybe $40 at most if no piston n rings are needed

and i thought i was onto a winner.
no easy fixes in this world

still could be , easy to rebuild these jiggers , just dont go welding stuff !!!
look inside , see what damage their is , cant be much really

this is it. .

cant really see a problem in thar , so what was the noise you told about ?, already 20 thou over too , so if piston is still good you need to stick with it . looks a tad dry though . pic' of inside the head too ? i'll tell you why later if we like whats there
the noise wasnt just a badly fitted or bent cooling cowl ? (black tin top cover)
that head gasket is home made too , who's been in there tinkering huh

Yes i recon the noise was the cowl,
ps. I made the gaskets out of the cardboard in the middle of a vb 30 block.
I dont trust this carby.




Found scratches on the cowl.

was a good guess then !! so engine is ok then . goodo , so just get the correct gaskets , you can see already she's gunna blow !! if you like to use the g3 then remove the plastic adapter and go for it need to use the throttle cable too though to suit .
so yup , change those gaskets vb's a great beer but it dont have that many uses
any air leaks will upset it so while you have the boss off do the bottom seal too then should be good to go

ps , std head sorry hehehhee

As i have no other gaskets, read somewhere that i could use it as gasket paper. even cornflake boxs??
i want to change the carby, does the plastic adapter come out easy?

2 screws and it pulls off , and yes you can use GASKET paper but correct thickness and top of my head i cant remember but its thinner than a c/f box

so i tighten the hell out of it??