On Tuesday, the left wheel on the fairway mower looked crooked. I was really hoping the lug bolts were just loose, but no such luck. We have an interesting repair in front of us. The frame cracked on the wheel motor mount.
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| Cracked frame |
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| There is supposed to be a wheel there! |
A new front axle frame assembly is about $2500 plus many hours of labor. We are going to try repairing the mount before going that direction. After cutting out the paper thin rusted frame and grinding, I think we have something we can work with:
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| Clamping up the new motor mount |
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| New pieces of metal added to strengthen frame |
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| Reinforced the top |
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| Side view |
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| Finished repair |
The fairway mower is back in action and everything worked fine. I'm fairly confident the wheel motor mount is now stronger than it was new. Our fairway mower double cut the fairways today to catch up on the grass growth since last Thursday. We have had a lot of rain in the past week and the fairways were getting very long. They are now back to normal height.
On a happier note, I had a visitor last week!
