Cub Cadet 149 Split: Transmission Pump to Axle Housing Leak Repair
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ค. 2022
- After 4 years, with 3 years of them documented on TH-cam, I finally broke down and split my Cub Cadet 149 to finally fix the transmission oil leak. Was it a success after years of chasing it? Find out!
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Bravo! My hunt for the 149 continues....
Thanks!
The 149 was an extremely popular model. I'm sure you'll find one soon. 👍
That cover is there for when you get a stick shift transmission
Good video, I stripped my 1974 149 Cub down and did a frame off restoration. Took me a couple years of on & off working on. Turned out really good. That’s when tractors were made to last. Thanks for sharing the video
Sweet! Thanks for watching! 👍
Just a fantastic video!.. All I can guess is that this guy had a father that was a real engineer !!!... Thank you. I have the same tractor, 169 model... Id love to increase the wheel base by 2-4 inches but after watching this I can see that it would entail more than just lengthening that drive shaft to the pump.
It would be a lot like adding forward controls to a motorcycle except literally backwards, extending a couple of hoses/lines, and the wire harness. You COULD do it, but I question what you would get out of it. You can always just add weights to the nose if it's got that problem. I very near did exactly that to mine.
Need more length? Shop for a Super Garden Tractor 1872, 2072, power steering, duel brakes peddles,
front hydraulic ports,
26x12x12 rear tires, 18x8.50x8 front tires, frame is 6" longer between the seat & steering wheel.
Drive one, you'll never go back!
1872 they're not as good as what you think and they're not as much fun to drive is a smaller Cub Cadet
That cover is the gearshift hole for the manual transmission models.
The hydro pump can be pulled in the frame. I'd pull the fender pan off and power wash everything over again to get all that dirt and grime off that you missed the last time.
That revelation came to me after recording this. 😂
You'll be pleased the know the tractor has been pressure washed many more times since this video (missing and hitting several more areas on different dates, I'm sure).
The stick shift comes out of that hole
Doh! That's incredibly obvious now. 👍
Great work. I need to do this on a 782 Cub Cadet. The process is very much the same so I know I can reference this video!
Thanks!
Yep, I believe the SGTs are really similar.
Great video need to do the same job thanks good info 👍
Thanks! Good luck with yours. 👍
Get a small heater, helps a ton painting in the winter
If I remember right, this was like a 60F day so it wasn't quite worth firing up a heater for it.
Nice job Max. I thought you were younger than to have rebuilt it 25 or 35 years ago (I forget which one you said). I thought for some reason you were in your 30s.
Hopefully you can fix her for another 25 years of faithful service without too many headaches.
Thanks!
I think it was 25-ish years ago. I've been mowing with it, off and on, for over 30 years at this point.
I was still a teenager the last time I split it and I do remember it was over spring break one year. My Dad had a broken foot and couldn't stop me, so I fixed the 149 and the family clothes dryer both to my specification rather than just bandage them together. I don't think that dryer has ever had another issue. 😆
I'm way too upside down in my Cubs financially to ever give up on them, so they're going to be serving, in one capacity or another, whether or not they like it. The 149 is going to need a motor soon though and rebuilding a Kohler is not cheap.
@@TheBrokenLife I don't really think being upside down is very important. It's not like you're fixing it to sell it at a profit. Plus, there has to be some sentimental value to something you fixed up 25 years ago.
Plus, as much as it has issues and quirks, it's probably better built than anything you could buy at home depot today.
It's kind of amazing to me how expensive even parts for even brand new stuff, which should be extremely plentiful and cheap and in high enough demand to lower inventory costs are. Replacing a crankshaft on a 2 or 3 year old generator is so expensive, even without ANY labor costs that it is basically unfixable., It will be more than 1/2 the cost of a brand new machine.
Do you have any idea how many hours are on it?
@@tarstarkusz Well... It is and it isn't. My long term goal is to be on enough land that mowing with garden tractors really isn't realistic, so I wouldn't want to have 10 or 20 grand wrapped up in Cubs when that amount of money would buy a pretty decent "big" tractor. Between mine and their accessories, I'm probably flirting with the bottom end of that number, but they're only worth _maybe_ $1k/ea, with all of their accessories, to the right buyer. They're valueless money pits.
I grow sentimental attachment to things extremely easily, to the point that it's probably not healthy. I'm already counting up space for something like 40 tires on the ground of things I "can't" part with. I'm actually trying to realign my thoughts in the opposite direction. We'll see what the coming years bring.
It is for sure better built than anything new, and that's something a lot of people are quick to point out, but it's also not new anymore. _Everything_ is worn out on any Cub you'd run into by now and it's honestly cheaper to rebuild a car than one of these things. Pretty much every year I spend $200-$300 in various repairs. Just the transmission refill in this video was about $70.
I think with modern things they intentionally set it up such that the manufacturers are not in the business of selling parts and only have enough spares made to provide warranty support, so the price of service parts is astronomical. Just browsing through the replacement parts availability for my new compressor indicated that pretty clearly. The flywheel is like a $450 service part, but I can buy the entire compressor assembly (as an assembly, from a place like TSC) for around $250, flywheel included. With stuff like my Cubs, I'm on the flip side of the equation where the stuff just isn't being made anymore at any price. Kohler discontinued most K-series parts more than 10 years ago and MTD almost completely stopped supporting IH built Cubs like 20 years outside of very common parts.
As for hours, I can personally attest to 7-10 hours a week, 6 months a year, from 1990-ish to 2005, and 1-2 hours a week, 6 months a year, from 2010-ish to now. Shooting at the average of those figures, I come up with 3315 + 468, so around 4000 hours I can personally account for (give or take a few hundred)... and it was already worn out and 15 years old when Grandpa dragged it home. It also came with a plow so it was doing some winter work in its previous life too. If it doesn't have twice as many hours on it as I can document, I'd be surprised.
@@TheBrokenLife I did not know that it was your goal to own enough land where owning an actual tractor would be necessary. While it is complete ignorance on my part, I assume a agricultural tractor would also be better than anything you could buy in home depot.
I don't disagree that everything eventually reaches a point where bringing it back to even the minimal "serviceable" condition just no longer makes financial sense or is even possible because of lack of parts.
BUT, 200-300 dollars a year just isn't that much compared to the cost of buying something new. Even low end riding lawn mowers are expensive. A guy I follow on youtube just bought one and he paid like 5 grand for a low end Craftsman last year. If you're financing it, that's even more money.
OTOH, it's new and it's going to be problem free for a least a few years.
Worn out (but technically "working") parts make everything loose and sloppy and not a joy to use and you get stupidly hard repair jobs replacing gaskets that require a day of labor to tear down the tractor. So, yes, I agree, it's not new.
What I meant by that really is that if you get it back into spec, it's better than anything you could buy today, but, of course, it will (could) cost WAY more than you could sell it for and way more than a modern equivalent (which won't be as well made, but will be new). Also, it is not built as well, I don't think, as even modern agro stuff is. A guy I follow on youtube, "Good Luck America" just bought a used tractor for 20 big ones. I'm not even sure what he's going to use it for (he normally talks about politics and police work and he has a separate horse channel). It looks pretty well built. But, to be fair, I don't use agricultural equipment and don't know anything at all about it. It just looks good, like no plastic stuff for example.
If your grandfather had it a long time before you and you rebuilt it as a teenagert and had it a long time since, the sentimental value might be a lot better and more justifiable than some car you picked up 10 years ago.
I'm making sound easy, but one has to prioritize. What really means something and what are you holding onto for bad (or even no) reasons.
I think a lot of the parts problem comes down to 1 thing and that is this stuff is built in low cost countries, but an American service man has American expenses and costs. IOW, we are importing the cheap labor of workers in places like China, but we cannot import cheap servicing because the service men are Americans with American rent, American tuition (to learn to fix the stuff), American electric bills etc not to mention all the insurance costs of doing business in America.
. This makes the cost differential between fixing it and getting new so small and even negative, that nobody fixes anything and so there is no "system" of parts. . Because of that, we are just not set up to service things including well managed parts inventory. And so what little inventory there is ends up being stupidly overpriced. But this is really just a guess on my part because it makes sense to me.
@tarstarkusz Oh, it's a must for me to own property which is why I'm currently a renter. I had my fill of neighborhoods 20 years ago and my lack of space is vastly restraining my activities. Various twists and turns over the years have slowed down the process of buying something out of town, but it's imperative that it happens. In part, that's some of the reason why I'm making videos. I can't live on $1000/mo (which is far more than I presently make from it), but that's another $150k on 30 year mortgage and easily enough to build an insane shop to make more content and perhaps pursue other opportunities. We'll see. That's 5 year plan type of stuff, so, no better than dust in the wind at this point, but achievable.
Most things you buy at a lawn and garden shop are going to exceed the quality of anything from a box store without stepping up to full blown ag equipment. Even something like a JD X series garden tractor from 10+ years ago, which you'd have to go to a Deere dealer to buy, would mow twice as fast as my Cub just on the basis of horsepower and blade speed. When the time comes, I'll have to consider the land itself, my budget vs. needs vs. wants and all of that. Something with enough hydraulic capacity and reach to at minimum pull motors would be nice, but if a good deal on the right zero turn came up I could see that happening too. Again, things so far down the line that it's almost irrelevant to think about now.
The repair cost vs. new purchase conversation comes up a lot too with these old machines. With the property I'm on now I'm far and away on the losing side of that equation. This lot is entirely flat, with good drainage, and has almost nothing to mow around. The cheapest rider at Lowe's would be fine and presently that's about $1500. I'd be willing to bet the purchase price it would survive the 5-7 year break even period without me lifting a wrench or probably even changing the oil (this is literally what all my neighbors do). This was _not_ the case at my last property, which had a completely insane hill in the back yard that I was downright afraid to mow with something that didn't weigh as much as a Cub and I _had_ to have a hydrostatic transmission for safety. Replicating that in a newer tractor would have cost me many thousands that I just didn't have when I bought that house.
The "good" modern stuff is better in some ways and worse in others. What retired my 149 the first time is when my Dad bought a JD compact tractor (so not a garden tractor, but not really an ag tractor either... It's the type of thing "horse people" would have and right around that $20k mark) in 2005. A lot of it is built lighter, and clearly built down to a price, but most of it really has never had a problem either. It's eaten one really badly designed driveshaft at the tune of about a grand, and a couple of deck spindles, but otherwise that's it in now approaching 20 years. The new-new stuff isn't that much different than his when comparing it to something like my Cubs. A lot of the stuff in the 60s and 70s was just built heavier because it was cheaper than engineering it not to be. Plus, there's really nothing wrong with a plastic hood or fenders, but that wouldn't have been realistic to manufacture in the bakelite era. The problem people get into with the modern stuff is thinking their compact tractor is a "real" tractor and overworking them. You can overwork something like my Cub almost infinitely because it's so underpowered compared to its construction. That's not the case with the modern stuff. The power vs. durability balance is much tighter.
Brother, if you only knew the depths of the legacy hardware from sentimental attachments and just how deep some of them run. Yes, this was my grandfather's tractor, but he HATED it. We still have the one he liked too... and more. In enough time, my goal is to bring all of that to the channel. I still consider what I'm doing right now to be training time. The "good" videos/topics are still way out in the future to be made after I have a better idea of what I'm doing. Some better equipment would be nice too.
I dunno, but my _really_ long term goal is that the lack of American skilled labor drives demand for it up to the people who can afford to pay for it and a guy like me might be able to provide a little bit of it. I have the required resources to make or repair literally anything if the budget is large enough. As more time passes, I'll be able to pull more of those resources in house and potentially offer them as services. We'll see!