Thought I was taken
 

Bought a 782 last fall as my old 1978 vintage simplicity finally bit the dust. Was looking at Wheelhorse as I had those in the past but as my dad used to work at the IH South Works plant in Chicago and my wife's uncle used to own a Cub dealership in the 70's, I had to get Cub.

Paid 850 for the Cub even though the starter did not always work. Owner said his uncle bought it new. I use it for mulching leaves, hauling wood,etc. Then this spring the front seal opened up a bearing started making noise and the PTO stopped. Thought I was taken. As I started taking the shrouding off to get to the seal, I started noticing 0282 on several parts. From the SN it is an 82. It all looks original per the paint lines on the sheet metal. Even the starter looks original. As for the PTO, I see the wire was broken. So now I feel the seller just had good timing and I got a good one owner machine, hubcaps and all.

Question on the PTO. Do they get weak or just fail. I attached the PTO to a battery and it does activate. But I could rotate the mating part. Seemed too easy to turn but there was good resistance. I will drop a new bearing in the PTO as the original is not smooth. I think this was the bearing noise as the spindle bearings seemed OK. Hate to drop the bucks if this PTO is actually good. Thanks

Have you adjusted the PTO air gap per the service manual instructions?

Chassis Service Manual: http://www.onlycubcadets.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=13226

I have not adjusted it yet. Will start putting it together probably this weekend. Still waiting on a seal and bearing. Thanks

Got it running
 

Put the motor back together, just new seals and a good cleaning. I doubled up the front seal. Nice to have no more oil spots. Fired right up. I did adjust the pto but I found a few cracks in the deck and some wear that I will need to weld up. In no hurry as I do not need the deck until leaf vacuum season. So I will not know until later on the condition of the PTO.

I am going to add an outlet next to the rear lights to run my sprayer. It will be tied to a switch I will mount on the dash.

I did the same thing, but, as I am lazy, I just took out one tail light, wired the trailer connector to the tail light wire, and it runs my sprayer.

It operates off the headlight switch, which in my case is the ignition switch.

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Great idea! I know how important those tail lights are anyway! I love this forum for getting good ideas like that one.:beerchug:

782 update
 

Nothing better to do on a 100 degree day than to go through the mower deck. Welded up some cracks, overhauled to front scalping roller, pad welded some wear points, sharpened the blades with out taking them off. Got everything on the tractor and the good new is the PTO works fine. Bad news is the bad bearing was the center spindle. Anyone know what bearing number (ie SKF602, etc) is used in the spindle? Anything out of the ordainary to look for when replacing. Will most likely do all three spindles. All free advice is happily accepted I believe it is a 1980, deck is 44" Thanks

I replaced the center spindle on my 44c deck this winter. I understand there is another 44 deck that has a different spindle so be sure and get the correct one. I looked into a rebuild kit but it was over $200 fro CC. I bought a new one from Patton's for half of that but it was missing one of the spacers. I just used one of the old ones and it works fine.