Mowing season is coming and my deck is in pieces. I have a New
Idea EGT 150 with a mid-mount deck, so low profile motors. I pulled
the motors and found that the brush end bearings are fine, but each
drive end bearing feels rough. This is with the armature still in the
end housing, with the hub and that odd-looking seal in place. Not sure
about that seal. How effective is it, and could it be giving me a
false rough feeling as I turn the bearing?
My plan is to get everything together while I'm waiting for my
bearing splitter to arrive. (I understand the weird way the hubs come
off.) Are the top and bottom bearings identical (so I can use the
bearing number for the brush end to order the bearings for the drive
end, which I can't see yet)? Has anyone used a sealed bearing there to
protect against deck wash-downs? Or maybe that oddball original seal
could be replaced by an equivalent spring lip seal?
Or maybe the bearings are fine, the seals are messing me up, and
this tear-down is a waste. Anyone with experience care to give me some
advice? One reason I'm doing this is that I plan to install Gator
blades (higher current draw), so I want everything to be running
smoothly and efficiently.
Chris
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