Max II Project

[ARGOJIM]

Frame rail bent?

[john swenson]

also check the inner bearing on that axle. if you lost a bolt on it , it may have '' flipped '' allittle. j.b.

[garrett1308]

The axle that's angled up is the one whose bearings and flanges I just replaced. Ill be taking it all apart this weekend to see if I might have messed something up when I put it together. There's play between the outer bearing and the new flanges though, which is probably why its pointed up. the bolts are tight, and the bearings and flanges are brand new, haven't even taken them out for a drive yet.

[ARGOJIM]

Did they mistakenly send you a 206 62mm bearing instead of a 207 72mm bearing?, never mind me, you'd have seen that.

[garrett1308]

Friday afternoon I'll tear it down and check the frame and the bearing and flange sizes.

[garrett1308]

Looks like I got a dud bearing. It's got plenty of play within the outer housing of the bearing. I'll be taking it back soon.
Had it out the other day; worked great ...for all of 5 minutes. It sputtered to a stop, and when I pulled the carb apart, I found a mound of red dirt in the bottom of the carburetor bowl. The gas tank was cleaned and the fuel lines are brand new, leaving the fuel pump as the culprit.

[garrett1308]

Do I need to pull my motor? My driver side rear outer bearing is too far gone for me to justify keeping it on. Looking at it, it looks like the motor will severely constrain the ability to get the eccentric off the inner bearing. How have yall tackled this?

Machine is great other than that. Texas got some rain last week, and the back yard was under 3 feet of water. You can probably guess where I was that day.

[Mike]

Pulling the motor makes it much easier and it really doesn't take too long to do. I think that's probably the best way to tackle the replacement of that bearing.

[hawksmore]

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[jpswift1]

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[garrett1308]

Sprocket Stuck on Axle

Had to cut the rear most driver side axle to get it out; the sprocket was stuck on. Heated it up red hot with the oxy torch and beat on it with a hammer, but it wont budge at all. Today, I took it to a buddy's shop, and his 20 ton press couldn't move it either, not even with 2 bernzomatic map gas torches to it. Tomorrow, I'm going to try taking the oxy torch to it while pressing it, but if that doesn't work, ill be buying a new axle and sprocket.

[Noel Woods]

Probably a good time to get new sprockets anyway, most of these machines get pretty beat up from lack of maintenance and owner lack of knowledge.

[garrett1308]

I probably will get some new sprockets and axles. Ended up taking the stuck one into work and using a hydraulic press. Made some pretty bad noises from the metal separating, but came apart. Put the two halves of the axle into a piece of angle iron and welded it back together as straight as I could. It all went back together pretty nicely. I think I'm going to build a cover for it now so I can take it out comfortably in the rain and snow, that that'll be a project for another day. Just glad to have it back together and working. Thanks everyone for yalls' help.

[garrett1308]

Have been using the max to move my hustler from the back porch to the garage and back down again while I work on it. Went to pull it down tonight, but with the new chains on the machine and all the tires back on, and me forgetting to push the choke in once it was started, it struggled. Had my throttle most of the way down for a good 10 seconds right after starting it up, and was getting nowhere when a nice cloud of white smoke came billowing out of the back of the machine. Couldn't tell if it smelt like oil burning as I had just finished up doing a decent amount of welding and the smoke was lingering in the air. Shut the machine off, took a good look at it, checked my oil, which was clean and full, made sure I had compression in both cylinders via the pull rope, and started it back up with no issue. Any ideas as to why it smoked?

[Andyman]

Have been using the max to move my hustler from the back porch to the garage and back down again while I work on it. Went to pull it down tonight, but with the new chains on the machine and all the tires back on, and me forgetting to push the choke in once it was started, it struggled. Had my throttle most of the way down for a good 10 seconds right after starting it up, and was getting nowhere when a nice cloud of white smoke came billowing out of the back of the machine. Couldn't tell if it smelt like oil burning as I had just finished up doing a decent amount of welding and the smoke was lingering in the air. Shut the machine off, took a good look at it, checked my oil, which was clean and full, made sure I had compression in both cylinders via the pull rope, and started it back up with no issue. Any ideas as to why it smoked?

Clean the spark plug and try it again