Anybody know??

[dschwandt]

What these are made of?
Need to make some new bushings for the deck wheels on 54" fab decks.
I assume the bushings are of the same mat'l

 

[mgonitzke]

Pretty sure the OEM ones are bronze/oilite...that is all I have ever encountered.

 

[dschwandt]

Matt

OEM on the 54" fab deck is these plastic bushings
Both my decks have 'em.
The '11 2100GTX2154LE and the '14 GTX2154
Problem is, they don't service the bushings, gotta buy a whole new wheel.

 

[etopel]

We make a lot of bushings out of Delrin-
https://www.mcmaster.com/turcite-stock/material~delrin-acetal-plastic/

 

[Neil Mullins]

Delrin is a very good high wear “dry” bushing material

 

[mfrade]

I was thinking Delrin or UHMW...

 

[rjruchti]

They put the grease jerks on those wheel for a reason. Under normal use by the time the bushing are wore out so are the wheels wore down to flat wheels rather than rounded.

 

[bjames]

The part # for the bushing is 741-0487C. I don't know what type of plastic they are made from.

 

[dschwandt]

Srange, I could not find that in the parts lookup for that deck on the GTX2154LE.

 

[mgonitzke]

That's interesting, those look exactly like the wheels on the 48" and 54" decks on the cyclops and 2k/3k series, but just with plastic bushings. Personally I'd rather have oilite bushings than those plastic ones.

 

[Neil Mullins]

oilite bronze is easy to source from almost anywhere. McMaster. Com has a huge selection. However shipping these days is crazy!

 

[jkoenig]

David has a well-documented relationship with his delivery drivers...

 

[dschwandt]

David has a well-documented relationship with his delivery drivers...

Yeah, anyone need a truckload of anything?
My driver is headed to Greely CO later this week!!

 

[Mark Evans]

What these are made of?
Need to make some new bushings for the deck wheels on 54" fab decks.
I assume the bushings are of the same mat'l

I would find a machine shop and see if they had a set of valve replacement guides of Hard bronze with graphite mixed into it and cut them to fit and then drill the inside proper sizing and install grease nipple drilled to center !!!