Good morning and welcome to SMHRB, where we put aside politics for a few and look around us, at our homes and surroundings, to see if we can fix or better them. Our intrepid band of amateurs and pros volunteer to share their accumulated knowledge and experience to answer your questions, steer you along the right path, and show you how you, too, can do-it-yourself. I'm CodeTalker and I'll be your host today.
Today I'd like to introduce you to one of my new Fixit Projects - a 1985 era MTD brand 8HP lawn tractor/mower. I received it as a thank you for helping some friends recently, and hope it will replace my previous Murray 12HP lawn tractor, a much larger one that had a serious problem with a really stupid cob-job weld someone did years ago on the cutting deck bearings that left the dual grass cutting blades at different heights and with a serious vibration, and me too concerned about the danger it posed to use it or want to fix it. The smaller mower is much more suited to our 1/4 acre lot, IF I can get it back in service; it apparently hasn't been run in years and was filthy, frankly, but not rusty or worn out as far as I can tell, so I have hope that it will all work out.
Follow me over the KosKurl and I'll let you in on how I approach such a thing.