YTS-3000 Idler Pulley: Defeating Dumb Engineering | Plus, STORY TIME!
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- Why do engineers do this? An idler pulley with the dang bearing molded into the thing. We need to replace this bearing. I could buy a new part but... that's not what we do around here! Watch and see how I defeat these dumb engineering designs.
This is a great video to show what a bit of thought, planning, and ingenuity can accomplish. Some of us are fortunate to have machinery to accomplish a task like this. The issues regarding customer service are rampant throughout many industries. Poor customer service is infuriating. The thought that you need to bring fuel, oil, and a jump box to cover possible needs reads volumes.
BTW I still have a Honda HR195 from 1985. I keep it serviced throughout the season and winterize it when the time comes. We are moving back to the east coast to some acreage so that little mower will be retired for the most part. I rarely permanently retire mechanical items. Remember when we would travel to the hardware store to test TV tubes? Replacement tubes would be available below the tester. Memories.......
A very different world. I believe that thought process is what attracted me to the restoration business. Be good. Remain safe, Thanks Tom
That spring clip reminds me of the clips used to hold the piston pin into the piston/connecting rod small end on my CL360. I had that clip fly like yours and my wife and I spent 15 minutes trying to find it (if you can't find it you almost have to assume it went down into the bottom end of the motor)! Prefer the ones that use snap ring pliers!
Should have added this to my comment below. Makes me wonder if they lean these mowers out so much to pass EPA? If they are carbureted that might be the issue. But NO excuse for selling (or building in the first place) mowers that won't run, and I agree with the customer service incompetence that you observed. What a change from 20 years ago......
Purely leaning things out doesn't really fix emissions
MTD makes like 95% of mowers on the market. Sounds to me like the carb was vapor locked. Prolly had very old fuel still in the carb and its even possible some of that old fuel gummed up the needle float. Once the fuel in the carb was used up, no more could flow.
Maybe, but all three brand new with no gas in them previously (allegedly).
That part is prime for 3D printing. Cause all that matters is the width of the pulley and the diameter and the rest about fitting the bearing is EZ PZ.
I’m not smart enough to understand that technology. If it’s not metal, I go into vapor lock. You should see when I do work with dead tree carcass. It’s quite disturbing. 😳
I bought a Bad Boy mower 7 years ago because I was tired of buying mowers that only last a few years before they fall apart and it was the best investment. 7 years and not one problem, change the oil and blades and mow mow mow. they are expensive but worth it. Great video.
Thanks. I have heard them from others and looked into them but all I see are zero turn. I don’t want one of those because it won’t fit in my shed even with the wider door I had them spec out. I have a 1998 Simplicity 38” 15.5 hp hydro that won’t quit. I use it for pulling the yard trailer around to pick up trash. After Hurricane Ivan in 2017 I had a huge amount of debris and used that little mower to pull a 4x8’ flat bed regular trailer around and put load after load of yard waste debris to the road. You have to understand my yard goes back quite a ways from the road. The majority of debris was back there. It was fully loaded each time. That mower still works fine. I used it yesterday in fact. The deck is almost gone so it’s a backup to cutting grass, but my point is, they used to build good yard tractors. This YTS3000 is pretty good also, I finally got that where I want and it cuts great. I just put a Vevor high back seat on it. Cheers.
My air compressor has a Kohler. Runs good for a while . Then when idling down after letting it catch up. Sometimes it shuts off . Probably need to drill out the plug at idle screw.
Maybe. Check the carb studs. The ones the go through the air box plate, carb and into the intake. I find them loose whenever I work on either a Briggs or Kohler.
Nothing tears a bearing up faster than no lube, too much lube, contaminants
You should try a mower shop not a big box store
There isn’t any near me or anywhere close that sells the consumer level yard tractors except big box. The ones we have are all zero turn and higher commercial models.