I know, but its got a bevel gear so I wondered if it could use a gear oil. It's only the Mini that ever used engine oil in a gearbox.

I got the silicone gasket maker / sealant, E bike cycle to get it .

I had cleaned all the old gasket silicone off.





I've degreased, carefully oil filled, applied gasket silicone, transmision assembled and it's now a curing.

Refit and test tomorrow.

Final part of the mower repair.

I'd rebuilt the transmission and oil filled it and silicone gasket sealant'd the casing together.
After a cure time of 24+ hrs it was ready to refit the transmission to the mower.
Fiddly'ish and as the Haynes manual always said, assembly is the reverse of disassembly 😂

I reassembled everything using copper disassembly paste. Won't rust and stick together for next time.

Finished the last of it after tea and then fired the mower up to test.



Pulls like a train now.

Quick test



Wheel spins and spits gravel now!

The plastic part had probably been failing for a while as the centre retaining pin ate it's way into the bush, until it final sheared in two.
I did notice a slight drop off in pulling power before the breakage on the last cut, but put it down to the belt maybe, although that is self adjusting.
In seven years, I've never needed to adjust the twin blade drive!

Very pleased with my £181+postage - £3.99 for gasket sealant repair saving🙂

Hopefully will last a good few years more.

🙂

It's growing up with a handy, fix it father, having that mindset and interest above all.
Been like it all my life.
Just love making and repairing things.



There a couple of good videos on YouTube about replacing the transmission, but none about stripping it down and repair.

I've video'd as I went along and will put a YouTube video up to help other - give it a go, like minds.

We need to repair more and throw less away, esp come the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise 😀).

Having a handy father certainly helps.
I didn't.
I knew so little I had to get someone to show me how to concrete a post 30 years ago.

When I put in some outside steps 25 years ago with timber and brick, I took direction from one of those old fashioned things called a book.
It worked, and stairs still functioning.

Youtube is fantastic for knowledge and guidance now.

Hehe, the repair and recycle was me.

Used the mower today.
It's flying again!
I think the degradation in drive had been coming on for a while and gradually as the halfshaft location pin ate through, meaning the drive plates were harder and harder to squeeze onto the drive crown.

Like new again now.

Just cut




Next DIY job is the car air blower comes on to whatever you set it on for about 5 minutes then defaults to speed 1 (really low) and sits there completely immoveable by controls.
No different in AC on or off, Auto on or off, set speed, where it blows etc.

Common fault in the air blower resistor!
It is a thyristor with a little heart sink on the back. It sniffs the circulating air and regulated the blower speed, to maintain the set temperature.

Located up under the dash behind the glove compartment.
Fortunately we're RHD so only the glove compartment needs to be unclipped. LHD models require the pedal box out.

Here is the offending part



Trick is to remove the retaining screw, gently pull the unit out, then remove the 2 plugs. Can't get finger purchase to remove them otherwise.

£35 delivered. On order.

Once I've got the new one / confirmed working, I pull the other one apart and see what's inside.
Might be able to replace resistors / thyristor etc.

I felt sorry for the Toro 30" cut mower.
It's not really had the under deck TLC it deserved / required over the years.

Grass is really quite corrosive but American metal is fortunately thick!👍

Toro did not powder coat the metal deck - thank goodness.
Powder coat, in my experience with many things;
from Caterham 7 chassis,
to outdoor garden items,
lamps etc, is the chocolate tea pot of outdoor finishes -
should never be used on anything that will be outside or suffer the slings and arrows of the great wide world atmosphere!

It's fine on hi-fi I guess 😂

Once moisture gets under powdercoat it flakes worse than a 99!
Retains more moister - Utterly useless!

What I should have done was cleaned and touched up the underside of the deck every season😂

Anyway, after a thorough clean, wirebrush off of surface rust and good degrease, using Gunwash (that's a special thinner/cleaner for spray paint guns 👍 - not weapons😱)

It's ready for painting.



This is with the deck rim protector steels removed btw.

I'm thinking Por-15 first.







This was all the rage on the underside Caterham chassis among the lads. Sticks like the preverbial!
Very good adhesion, chip and rust proofing. Not UV resistant - so must be over painted or used underside only.
I used this on my Caterham chassis tubes - excellent stuff.
(I know in the tin it says, paint over rust! Only an idiot would actually did that! 😂)

Once the tin is open it's impossible to reseal. Good job I don't need much / have 3.. You got 6 in an expensive pack - dread to think what they cost now - 1500% inflation since then..

Then on with some nice hammerite.
Have a selection..



I'll build up a decent layering of coats.

Then I'll do a spot maintenance and touch up like them good ol boys of Uhmerica on them theres U-tuuube videos🙂

Yeah powdercoat is appearance (for a sale) over long term function.

Yes, red won't show the blood so easily!