There isn't just a keyway through the wheel? Can't just get a piece of key at
the hardware store and drive it through?
A friend of mine had a mower that the keyway rotted off the axle, I was mowing
his lawn and ended up rolling down a big hill backwards when that wheel lost
all traction... I ended up using about 4" of key to get enough connection to
make it work...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:04:20 -0400
From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu>
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Re: [MBZ] OT: lawn mower transaxle
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Looks like my problem is the
transaxle after all; I removed the rear
wheels and found that the
woodruff key that locks the wheel hub to the
axle were sheared off on
one side. The other side doesn't look much
better off.
Problem
is the keys seem to be welded to the inside of the hub. I can't
drive
the remains out because the axle shaft is only about 5/8" diameter
so
I can't really get anything inside the hub, nor do I see any good way
to
weld in new keys even if I could.
I'm tempted to just weld the
hubs to the axles. If I ever need to
remove them I can grind off the
welds.
Allan
--
1983 300D
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