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  1. Mark Evans

    Thought I was done

    The seal lip need a lite dab of lithium Lube but don’t fill the hole lip ridge when installing don’t roll the edge of lip !!!! Looks like you an old hat at this though !!!! Ol Cat Man !!!! Don’t leave a pressure on the shaft going into the hydra-stat can cause damage inside especially on the...
  2. Mark Evans

    K301 rod

    I enlarged the picture and looked close and I see it was plastic !!!
  3. Mark Evans

    K301 rod

    The overspeed killed the rod, or if not it would have ate up all of the governor weights up to little stubs !!!!! I bet the engine oil screen was full of the debris !!!!!
  4. Mark Evans

    K301 rod

    His was a metal one and if you check it was an overspeed, the spring on the adjustable upper setup has changed from time or reset, you always recheck the high and low on a governor setting every year to make sure at tuneup and I always just under shoot the high side setting on all engines CAT...
  5. Mark Evans

    982 headlight frustrations

    The problem your describing is sounding like you have a dual charging stator on your winding under the bull wheel, check the output on the two wires coming off the charging wires independently while running their will be a difference in out put one wire is for lights only when running and one...
  6. Mark Evans

    982 headlight frustrations

    Every time a part is installed on a frame you have to make sure it’s making a ground clean off paint bolt, two bolts, one on each side to the front grill support and then ohm it out for community is the proper way on all parts to frame, for a habit of building !!!!! OL CATMAN !!!!! On big...
  7. Mark Evans

    1811 with Seized Kohler M18 Engine

    You have to fix carburetor, and/or fuel pump and make sure no fuel at all in system before using in any way !!!!!!!!!!!
  8. Mark Evans

    K301 rod

    The KT17 without an oil pressure and no oil filter are ran on a tilt the high side will run out of oil and gouge up and break a rod, all the time !!!! The good one is the series II 18 magnum with live oil system and filter setup !!!!
  9. Mark Evans

    782D journey

    I always cleaned the chassis and then star and the connections and repainted after elect test for community !!!
  10. Mark Evans

    Kohler vs well, everybody else

    Yes creep the rpm around 3200 and 30wt HD oil and they pull better at mid range than full 3600 never ran one on the high side !!!!
  11. Mark Evans

    Kohler vs well, everybody else

    Back when I was younger and had my own shop in the family barn had a vacuum pump made out of a international Harvester deep freeze compressor pump best vacuum pump I ever had, and made a couple of toys out of old baler V-4 cylinder engines the homemade two wheeler out of an old mustang front end...
  12. Mark Evans

    782D journey

    Makes all the difference on grounding especially after a few months !!!!!!
  13. Mark Evans

    K301 rod

    Anytime SIR !!! Need to see close pictures of the rod ends on both sides of the split ????
  14. Mark Evans

    782D journey

    I’ve welded up a lot of those shafts and then tempered them !!!
  15. Mark Evans

    K301 rod

    Always set rpm max speed on start up and test it twice and run for an hour at 1/2 speed then retest and reset for gear mess !!!! And bearing seating on bearing tension !!!
  16. Mark Evans

    K301 rod

    You should note the oil loss was not it and it was over stress on the rod do to the revs too high, the piston end of rod should be shown also along with the bearings, piston was not low on oil either !!!!! Could tell you more from a close up of the upper rod part had failure analysis I and II...
  17. Mark Evans

    ZT2

    Some pictures should show a lot of answers for me it should suck paper up at a foot and a half away from the deck all the way around and at the shoot straight discharge for 4 to 5 feet and the top of the deck should suck air and follow out the deck shoot ! It’s a giant vacuum sweeper
  18. Mark Evans

    782D journey

    You got it covered !👍
  19. Mark Evans

    ZT2

    Put a picture of the blades under the deck and the layout of the pulleys with belts on and then one of the engine drive on deck drive belt on pulley too !!! One of the shoot opening!!! I’ll troubleshoot it SIR !!!
  20. Mark Evans

    782D journey

    Yes SIR THAT IS THE WAY YOU MAY HAVE HAD ONE AND I NOT SEEN IT SIR !!!
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