So I had to get a new battery for the lawn tractor. The battery it takes is a U1-250, problem is these is no U1-250, there is now a U1L-250 and a U1R-250, so which one do I want or need. I looked at the old battery and the U1L-250 looked like it was pretty much the same. After getting home I wasn't sure of anything I bought.
What I bought was a battery, an oil filter, and a new chain for the chainsaw. Turns out the battery I bought was the correct one. If the terminals would have been reversed, the one cable wouldn't have reached. As for the oil filter, they didn't have the number it called for but the one I bought matched ther number of the old oil filter so that also was correct.
As for the chain for the chainsaw, I'm taking it back after do some research. My saw take a 3/8 pitch, 40 links, and .050 gauge. The one I bought being it was the only one they had for a 10" saw had a .043 pitch which the guy said would work, but after looking things up I found out the .043 pitch chain isn't as strong and it wears faster, so it's going back. Glad I didn't try it out.
I did get the battery in the lawn tractor and it turns over like it should. Changing the oil was kind of a disaster being to drain the oil you are to use the supplied hose they give you and connect it to the drain port, problem is after we got flooded, I have no idea where that hose is. I ended up just barely getting a funnel under the drain port and drained it into a bucket which took forever. I don't think I could open the drain port any more without getting oil all over the floor, it took awhile, but I got it drained.
After all that was done I still had to put air in a tire which broke loose from the bead. That took some time getting the tire to seal on the bead again. I'm hoping the tire holds air. I don't know if it has a leak or the tire was really low the other day and while using the tractor to move the chipper and the trailer, the tire broke loose from it's bead. Guess I'll know for sure in a few day's and the tire is flat again.
While I was at it I changed the oil in an old compressor I had. When I opened the drain plug, no oil came out! Well... that's not surprising being it's been in two floods floating upside down in the water. After our last flood I wanted to get to it but never did. So I put the drain plug back in, filled it with oil, plugged it ihn and it took right off which I used it to put air in the tractor tire. I take it that it lost all it's oil when upside down in the water.
Anyways it running, how long have no idea, after all being in two floods and still working surprises me!
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