and I like it.
You treat your mowers like some deluxe sports car with all the care and attention one would give a Lamborghini :thThumbsU
I just want to get mine to mow the grass :banghead3
We seem to have almost established my Viking is a Murray in disguise. Now I need to fix a few things - most pressing is it suddenly stopped - I mean literally skidded to a stop and nearly had me over the steering wheel. Wheeled OK in neutral - got up to the garage and started to fiddle. Worked out it wasn't the transmission ( Peerless hydrostatic) and after a while I got it going (don't know what I did - wasn't anything obvious ) and finished mowing down to the last square meter when it did it again. - This time I could start it and as I slowly let the foot brake off I observed the pulley on top of the transmission was rotating but the more I let the brake off the slower the belt got - the more the engine laboured and smoke started to come from somewhere closer to the front - any more and the engine stalled.
Does that sound like a seized idler pulley? What ever it is I'll need a manual to give me guidance in pulling things apart as this is the first piece of machinery of this type I have ever had to work on so I am unfamiliar with the mechanics of it all. ( But I am not a total novice being in the middle of a total rebuild of a 1963 Morris Mini 850 ( Austin Mini (Cooper) to our American friends)
I have other issues with the deck and blades but they are not as pressing as getting the thing operational at this stage so my questions will keep coming :sorry1:
David L
You treat your mowers like some deluxe sports car with all the care and attention one would give a Lamborghini :thThumbsU
I just want to get mine to mow the grass :banghead3
We seem to have almost established my Viking is a Murray in disguise. Now I need to fix a few things - most pressing is it suddenly stopped - I mean literally skidded to a stop and nearly had me over the steering wheel. Wheeled OK in neutral - got up to the garage and started to fiddle. Worked out it wasn't the transmission ( Peerless hydrostatic) and after a while I got it going (don't know what I did - wasn't anything obvious ) and finished mowing down to the last square meter when it did it again. - This time I could start it and as I slowly let the foot brake off I observed the pulley on top of the transmission was rotating but the more I let the brake off the slower the belt got - the more the engine laboured and smoke started to come from somewhere closer to the front - any more and the engine stalled.
Does that sound like a seized idler pulley? What ever it is I'll need a manual to give me guidance in pulling things apart as this is the first piece of machinery of this type I have ever had to work on so I am unfamiliar with the mechanics of it all. ( But I am not a total novice being in the middle of a total rebuild of a 1963 Morris Mini 850 ( Austin Mini (Cooper) to our American friends)
I have other issues with the deck and blades but they are not as pressing as getting the thing operational at this stage so my questions will keep coming :sorry1:
David L