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Originally Posted by Cubcadetpatrick
I believe the spindles I have are cast iron housings, so I’m guessing these are early production spindles? All stickers were painted over, but there’s a serial number I can share if that would help. I don’t have a belt for it yet so I haven’t tested it using motor power but when I first got it they wouldn’t even spin, upon using a ton of pb blaster to take off the blade they freed themselves and two of them seemed to spin pretty good, but the middle one wasn’t as smooth and made some noise. I figured they haven’t been greased in who knows how long so I wanted to take them apart, clean out the old grease and re grease them. The grease inside was pretty much useless. Just brown rusty sludge. Maybe I’ll leave them mostly on tact and just wash them and clean them up and regrease. Does this sound good?
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If they are that bad especially the center one. it needs inspection.
If you can post a pix, we can tell you if it is a cartridge/water pump style, or
taper bearings.
The cartridge style are in a metal 2 piece stamping,
and tapered bearings are in a casting.
Also the cartridge style are not rebuildable if rusty/pitted as
one has to replace the complete costly bearing/shaft assembly.
