Cub Cadet

[Mancar1]

I will never buy a Cub Cadet tractor mower again. Throws the deck belt at least once or twice each time I mow. Had to replace front axels, a tensioner pully, drive belt twice. Now the steering needs work. Only have 190 hours on it. Course in all fairness I do use it at the cemetery mowing a rough 7 acres every week.
All things considered, it has been ok.
Keep on Mowing....John

[Mancar1]

The hex flange bearing is shot. Easy fix have one ordered and on the way.
Anyone having a problem finding a mower part. I had the local repair shop tell me they couldn't find the parts I needed. Well I found a on line co. called Parts Tree.com and they had all I needed at fair $$$.
Called the local shop and gave them the # for Parts Tree.com. Guess I live in the sticks, they don't have a PC.

[tac]

They were pretty tough when IH built them. Now owned by MTD that builds almost every garden tractor made.

[flyboy71]

It's true. Got get a part for a Troy built and it's in a cub cadet box. MTD is about it for most consumer garden tools. The only good thing I have from MTD is a 70s mini bike

[thejunkman]

Love my good old 81 wheel horse. It's bulletproof, but I don't know what I will do when I will need parts. eBay I guess.

[Mancar1]

Love my good old 81 wheel horse. It's bulletproof, but I don't know what I will do when I will need parts. eBay I guess.

Isn"t Wheel Horse by Toro? You could try Mower part pros.com #419 980 0412 for parts for your Wheel Horse.

[HIO Silver]

Did someone say MTD?

My buddy literally unearthed this tractor under a huge pile of leaves on a property he bought. All that was visible was the engine cover. His wife said to scrap it but it cleaned up OK and fired up after I rebuilt the carb. He delivered it to my place and I've been reinventing/refurbishing it as a side project since December.



Custom bumper and headlights:



It's getting there...



Custom painted wheels:



Receiver hitch:



Tail lights.. LED!



Custom paint.. Rustoleum Signal Orange. Dries too dang slow. Sprayed it with a $10 HF gun. :



That's about where it is at...I took it out for a test drive... the gear linkages need adjustment. It was throwing a belt but a few washers for shims and she's rather speedy.

The saga continues ....

[Mancar1]

Nice rebuild I like the hitch. It is unreal how much these things will tow. I use a trailer at the cemetery made out of a 48-52 Ford Truck bed. I can fill it with dirt or gravel and my little old MTD, minus the deck, just pulls it like nobodies business.

[HIO Silver]

Thanks. I'm having fun with it.

We scrapped the deck and I deleted all the linkages and brackets. It's gonna be exactly like yours... a towing-only mower since he already had another tractor. This "find" was a bonus. I planned on painting it pink for his wife but he nixed that idea... we're going with a SF Giants motif hence the orange paint. Oh, I left the deck actuating arm so that I could attach a "beverage" holder. I found one at West Marine that clamps on boat railing... it's attached to a gimbal so he should never spill a drop.

Btw, this thing has a twin cylinder, 18 HP Briggs & Stratton. Isn't that out of the norm for lawn tractors?

[HIO Silver]

Sorry... double post.

[Mancar1]

Tractor mowers have been offered with twin cylinders for a while now. I am looking at a Husqvara RZ 461 Zero turn mower.

[Mancar1]

Ahhhh parts came in a little while ago. Now I can get the steering back together in time to mow the cemetery on Wed. and leave the Deere at home. Cub Cadet rides over the bumpy terrain a lot better.