Tearing further into the 107

[West Valley G]

-Check over wiring and make sure it and the lights work

Nice work, I love how little wiring there is on these things.

Ken

[Cubcadet_107]

Originally Posted by West Valley G

-Check over wiring and make sure it and the lights work

Nice work, I love how little wiring there is on these things.

Ken

I love how simple they are, too. Makes it really easy to get everything wired properly. I'm more worried about the lights than anything else because I swapped out the toggle switch for an OEM one I stole off my parts tractor.

[Cubcadet_107]

Ok folks, good progress on her today. Pulled the hood and grill housing off first:

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Came off pretty well, although one of the nuts was really rusted out bad. Found a set screw, washer, and nut hidden in some packed dirt that I'd never previously been able to access. Who'd have thought those would be there?

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Next I went at the basket pulley. Had some side to side play to it, my thought was worn keyway as that seems to be a relatively common issue. Nope, keyway was clean and straight. No wear at all. Instead, she suffered from a worn key . Very easy fix, rotated the key 90 degrees, put it back in, tightened up the set screws, and it was nice and tight, no more play!

With that done I put it all back together for the most part, didn't have the time to get it completely done but everything is covered up again. Next task is to set the governor to be more sensitive.

[jbrewer]

Excellent solid repair without getting vectored off into the weeds like my 123 . :-) . Those lower grille bolts get set in there pretty good after 40 yrs of dirt, humidity, rain and neglect!

Good work!

[Cubcadet_107]

Originally Posted by jbrewer

Excellent solid repair without getting vectored off into the weeds like my 123 . :-) . Those lower grille bolts get set in there pretty good after 40 yrs of dirt, humidity, rain and neglect!

Good work!

I'm doing my best to stay on track and not get carried away. Nice thing is, having had to completely build the tractor from a pile of parts, I know what needs to be done and what doesn't. There's a few things that need fixing but I don't need to worry about in a hurry. Mainly, eventually I'll replace the head gasket and make sure the head is flat and level. The 30 year old gasket is holding up pretty well, no leaking or anything so I'll leave it alone. I'll also eventually replace the drive hub with onna those fancy new ones from Jeff in PA, but for now I can live with the knocking of the old one.

As for the grille bolts, it was actually the 2 upper ones that were more difficult. I'll explain why in just a moment...

[Cubcadet_107]

Ok, so some minor progress made on the 107 tonight. I got the lights all sorted out and properly grounded, instead of just hanging on the bottom of the fiberglass cowl screws. A little difficult since I refuse to drill any holes, but I decided on the bottom bolt for the throttle on the right side, and the bottom bolt for the hood latch on the left side. Lights are still nice and bright, with a proper OEM push-pull switch that works like a charm!

I also took the time to adjust the governor sensitivity with the spring, I found that it was one hole off how it should've been set from factory. So I set it back to the factory settings and we'll see how that helps the governor!

Progress was hindered a bit today because of work finding front tires for a certain off-topic machine... tomorrow assuming all goes well, I might even be able to fire the 107 up for the first time in almost 3 months. We'll see though...

[jbrewer]

Keep up the good work!

We'll look forward to a fire-up report