My neighbor gave me a fairly nice 10 year old john Deere made Scott
mower that is a fairly heavy duty model with 54" deck, took care of
my need to buy a new mower. It was using about a quart of oil an
hour. It has a Kohler command engine and quick search turns up it
had bad head gasket or 2. I ordered the head gasket set a while back
and tore it down today. The right side was leaking/burning for sure.
Left side was not. Everything was going nice and smooth until I was
using torque wrench on last head nut on the 2nd head and snap, damn
head stud snapped. I don't know if I had the torque wrench set
wrong, or what. I did pull the head back off and there is these
metal collars on the base of the studs in that side of the head that
sort of hold the gasket in a certain position. They were somewhat
bent so I'm not sure if it was tightened too much bent them, or if
the head was not down over them all the way or what. I think bottom
line I must not have had the torque set right. I ordered a stud
extractor and new stud but it will be next week before it shows up.
Always something.
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"Don't look a gift...."
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