<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, <br class="">I’m a bit late to the conversation but replacing bearings is quite easy if you have a puller like this. <br class=""><a href="https://www.harborfreight.com/bearing-separator-and-puller-set-62593.html" class="">https://www.harborfreight.com/bearing-separator-and-puller-set-62593.html</a> <br class=""><br class="">It allows you to remove the blade hub without pulling on the blade flange, and easily gets behind the bearings without hitting the windings.<br class="">Best $50 I spent. I never timed it but I would guess 1-2 hours per motor and that includes taking them off and on the deck.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For very stubborn bearing pulls a have another trick for you. Crank the puller tight and then use an air chisel with a blunt tip punch on the end of the puller. I keep a 1/2 drive socket on the end of the puller as a guide for the punch so the air chisel stays on the end of the puller when you pull the trigger. The combination of the pullers tension and a couple brief rattles of the air chisel gets even the most stubborn bearing moving.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Page 8-3 of the Home Owners Service Manual shows the following </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Small motor. A (3) pc end play kit of (2) flat washers and (1) wavy. No bearing snap rings are called out.</div><div class="">Large motor. (1) wavy washer and a (2) pc “moisture” seal for the hub end. They don’t describe what that is made of. Looks like a snap ring for the large bearing in the photo but it is not called out as a separate part.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Speaking of bearings. I just replaced the bearings in my METI deck motors. I was talking to our local bearing store techs and he suggested LLU seals for the deck motors. See this to see why</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.ntn-snr.com/sites/default/files/2017-03/en_ntn_ball_bearings_-_shield_and_seal_types.pdf" class="">https://www.ntn-snr.com/sites/default/files/2017-03/en_ntn_ball_bearings_-_shield_and_seal_types.pdf</a> <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck<br class=""><div class=""> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Dean A. Stuckmann</div><div class="">5432 County Road U</div><div class="">Newton, WI 53063</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 6, 2019, at 8:42 PM, Jim Coate <<a href="mailto:lists@freerangeelectric.com" class="">lists@freerangeelectric.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">"copper" washer sounds like a bronze thrust bearing... don't think I've ever seen one used in the location described.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 08/05/2019 7:46 pm, Chris Zach wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Slight follow up: I found a copper washer in the parts pile from this,<br class="">turns out it goes on the end of the motor shaft and seals the motor.<br class="">My guess is then the smaller rubber seal goes on top of that, then the<br class="">big rubber seal on that.<br class="">It does however rub a little and make a bit of noise at low speed,<br class="">which means the second bearing might have gone a tiny bit too far as<br class="">well. Hm. I might just let it be for now, could be worse.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">Jim Coate<br class=""><a href="http://www.FreeRangeElectric.com" class="">www.FreeRangeElectric.com</a><br class="">Home of The Electric Tractor Store<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Elec-trak mailing list<br class="">Elec-trak@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu<br class="">https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>