Hi, all! I posted in the introduction section to introduce myself, but I figure I'll start a thread here to talk more about my gator itself. I've just picked up a '98 6x4 gas gator in trade for a junked up old truck. (and I got a junked up old gator!)
I'm a landscaper, so I figure I'll try to get good enough to get some use out of this year, and then this winter tear it all down and do a more thorough rebuild.
I just came back in from getting it started (finicky neutral switch and a jump got me going.) So next step is to deal with a bad bearing in the input shaft. I can move it in reverse, but it binds up in forward. The bearing is long gone. Here's the catch, the flange on the case is totally chewed up. Anybody got any brilliant ideas to get me running short term. I figure I'll have to track down a used transmission or that left side of the case at some point, but as things are picking up quite steadily with work, my wrenching will be quite limited for awhile.
I'm a landscaper, so I figure I'll try to get good enough to get some use out of this year, and then this winter tear it all down and do a more thorough rebuild.
I just came back in from getting it started (finicky neutral switch and a jump got me going.) So next step is to deal with a bad bearing in the input shaft. I can move it in reverse, but it binds up in forward. The bearing is long gone. Here's the catch, the flange on the case is totally chewed up. Anybody got any brilliant ideas to get me running short term. I figure I'll have to track down a used transmission or that left side of the case at some point, but as things are picking up quite steadily with work, my wrenching will be quite limited for awhile.