TRASHED John Deere RX95 Restoration [PART 6 FINALE!]
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2023
- This is the final video in this series of the restoration of this 1987 John Deere RX95 ride on mower lawn tractor. I originally found it a few weeks back on the curb on trash day. It was in very poor shape and headed to the dump, but with the help of a neighbor, I got it home and rescued it. In this video, we'll fix a problem with the brakes, reinstall the rear transaxle, change both drive belts, and finally mow grass with this thing! We'll see once and for all if it was worth all the trouble and expense.
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Be careful, Brad. Next thing you know, you'll end up with a big lathe, mill, and welding rig fixing the big tractors... love the content!
LoL 😂
Great job on this project! That has to be satisfying to finally complete it. The good news is, on a 30 year old mower you qualify for "classic car" tags so you can drive it on the street 😁👍 Say hi to George Jones
Yeah boy! With a Pabst in hand.
I'm going to need someone to explain to me why I will never do this kind of work in my life but needed to watch every second of this series! Ha ha... Great stuff Brad
Same. 👍
Once you start it’s just relaxing and fun
No hurry at all
Try a few 😊😊
Glad y'all like these. I enjoy making them quite a bit...except for all the heat. It's been HOT lately!
As you see, a little heat goes a long way! Even better with a torch, propane or even better MAPP gas, and don't quench it before you try to loosen the stuck item. Also, lose the WD-40, it's NOT a penetrating oil. Better to try Liquid Wrench, PB Blaster or Sea Foam Deep Creep. Keep on fixing stuff!
I have experience with Liquid Wrench and PB both. You're absolutely right! Thanks for the reminder I need to pick some up next time I'm out.
I like the Seafoam. PB blaster may work but it’s smells terrible. Makes me think the PB stands for putrid ballsack
It cuts grass! Lives to see another day. What a great series and beautiful thing. Thanks again for the great videos Brad.
excellent series Brad well done indeed
If this had been my project, the video would have been 5 minutes of this: 28:15 and then a closing shot of the mower on my kerb the next morning.
Hats off to you man, that was amazing 👍
It's alive! It's aliiiive!!!!
Excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed the series and the shift in content on this channel. I hope the algos here on YT help you gain a bit more subs/views.
I hope so too!
That was great. Loved this series!
Great video series! I have a JD SX85 that I’ve done a lot of my own work including the drive belt replacement… so I can def feel your pain. You had me laughing out loud several times as well calling your viewers bastards for just watching your struggle and not helping. Another highlight was you finally getting that broke bolt out of the brake caliper… and calling it a “fucker”… loved it! Happy mowing… I hope you love your lil old JD as much as I do.
Living the Dream....awesome
This has been such an awesome series, Brad! What a great culmination today! We've sat here over the past couple weeks cheering you on & learning quite abit along the way. That little reinforcement trick was brilliant! Looking forward to more projects.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
Hot Damn. Great job restoring this mower!
Helped me a lot - got the same wonderful device!
Nice one Brad.
GOOD WORK!
Ever consider going into the repair business Brad? You have really got a knack for getting mechanical stuff up and
running once again.
I'm just persistent.
i have several 1990s era deeres . great mowers , and i love them ... till it's time to work on them . with their mixture of metric/standard , their motto should be "nothing runs you back and forth to the tool box like a deere" .
Hey Brad....great idea for this economy.
I was never so excited about the bolt 😅
Good looking, and sounds good. As for making mistakes, it happens to just about everyone. I rebuilt an automatic transmission, and left out a bushing that went between the input shaft and output shaft. Fortunately i figured it out before i put the transmission back in the car. Took about 10 minutes to pull the input shaft back out to install the bushing. The transmission worked just like it was supposed to.
Sounds like you caught it in time.
That was a very nice reverse engineering style repair job Brad.
Holy crap they are much easier to build than to disassemble that's for sure.
I think every engineer/designer of stuff like this needs to be put on an ergonomic awareness course to help them understand just how much hassle poor design and thinking can cause so much frustration and pain for the customer.
Well done Sir and as we say in Scotland, "may yer lum lang reek" (U.S. translation: "may your chimney always have smoke").
All the best my friend and keep 'em comin'
Cheers
Alex the K
Two words for you brother, percussive maintenance😂
The Pittsburg SAE and Metric tap set from Harbor Freight ($45) has worked well for me on everything. Plastic, metal, wood. Haven’t broken anything yet
Thanks. Might have to spring for a set.
Good job Brad!
Zip Ties make a great plastic welding rod.
Brad, I’m calling you up next time my mower craps out……lol
It’s a lot of fun fixing them up
I really enjoy it but at times I get to many and sale and trade a few
Keeps this old diesel mechanic happily doing my thing
Fun times. I think I just enjoy the hunt
Good job man, works great too.
Thanks man!
The feeling of not letting things beat you... winning!
Well done! 👏
Thank you!
Who else saw that rag wrap up from the drill wire wheel coming!? lol
From a mile away! Unfortunately I speak from experience.
Always helps to talk sweet to it!
Watched every video in the series, really interesting to watch all the work needed to get the mower fully operational. Felt the happiness on your behalf when everything was done and it mowed like a charm. Friday evening over here, so big cheers to Brad 😀
The municipality where I grew up used to offer summer jobs for local teenagers. I applied a few summers and usually got assigned grass mowing duties on a couple of church yards, around schools or other public buildings and a soccer field. Mowing the soccer field or around the schools and kindergartens was a piece of cake, unless the equipment failed to start. The church yards were a bit challenging. First zig-zagging between the graves with a Stiga Park front-deck ride-on mower. Then, going around every grave with a weed whacker, hopefully without accidentally mowing down any grave flowers. Good times, I liked operating bigger and better machinery than the weak electric mower we had at home.
A little propane smoke wrench would help those frozen ones!
This was awesome, great work. Subbed!
All it needs is a wagon on that rear hitch. Will make it easyer to rescue its friends. 😁
She’s a bute Clark 👍
If you like that, you should see my station wagon.
Thats one of them times when ya just throw wd on it everyday for a week lol
Thanks again Brad
Harbor Freight sells a plastic welder that works pretty good.
Sweet ride 🎉
Great Job! well done
Bravo!
31:37 "Weird flex but, okay." lol
I inherited a set of Snap On taps. They are excellent, but pricey. Williams are a subsidiary brand of high quality but much cheaper.
Brad ya should have done some pimp my ride type footage at the end. Buncha b role of the mower and some hiphop in yhe background. 😂
Thank you for all you demostración’s I did watch all the videos and learn how to take. Apart Little John Deere RX 95 I have one and I begin experiencing problems with it I did want to learn how to remove the Deck cause I did had other brand and that was easier too remove the cutter pins of the deck 🤞 but this one they made it complicated specially the two at front that you even need to remove the right tire. And the problem you need to have the front jacket up and . That looks unsafe 😤
In my experience, when I have worked on steel bolt/aluminum housings I have used copper anti seize. I lubricates the threads and keeps the electrolysis from "welding" the bolt into the hole.
You could have tried 7-11 for one of those torch lighters, aka Walter White lighter, and heated the stuck bolt in the brakes thoroughly before you started taking it out. I don’t know it would have worked, but it would have been worth a shot, and you can light cigars with those lighters too.
Well done.
Always use a torch if possible.
Great series Brad i was cheering for you all the way,with that@%&6*( bolt,lol,Cheers!
At 23:00 I noticed that the bottom of the deck was not repainted. And there was an odd rusty panel under the motor.
Im gonna run it like this a while. I’ll paint bottom on next belt change.
You should have put anti seize on those bolts. And get a good pair of vise grips and I mean no China Grips.
"PB Blaster" is what you want to penetrate frozen bolts.
we called it "weasel piss" growing up.
hit the frozen parts a couple or few days before you want to remove w/ PB Blaster.
it will melt styrofoam and some plastics, even just a drop.
i'd keep it very far away from guitars, and anything plastic or nylon or vinyl or painted.
WD40 is a Water Displacement spray.
doesn't really lubricate, doesn't really protect.
i use WD40 after throwing my bicycle in the shower to spray all the water out the chain / between the links n' rollers of the chain itself.
then i wipe the WD40 off and use Rem Oil to actually lube the chain.
if it's wet or rainy out i may use strait mineral oil on the chain instead of Rem Oil.
i still know very little about guitars or playing one.
but i have a lifetime of experience in a few things.
i know you're going to rescue more stuff from the sidewalk.
be kind to yourself and invest in a can of PB Blaster for future projects.
nice mower.
fun project to follow along.
nice work on getting the stubborn bolt out w/o out weasel piss.
hope you find a old massey ferguson snowmobile from the 70's on the sidewalk that needs some t.l.c. next.
back when snowmobiles weren't so deadly and you could fix one on the trail.
Great job, mang!
Get some Kroil and leave that WD40 alone.
Hey fixologist what do you think about using Paracord to help keep the sides together on plastics? Sorry if is a dumb question
I guess it would depend on the plastic piece in question.
Great job Brad ! Lots of hard work, are you going to keep it , or get a decent dollar for it ?
Keep i think.
I only have one question. Where did you buy the tires? 4ply or 2ply
Those rigs are one-hundred-percent designed to be frustrating so you throw them away and get another one.
Project Farm did a comparison video on penetrating sprays. Your WD-40 didn't win.
I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone mentioned PB B’laster. It’s certainly a Jeeper’s best friend.
You need to loose that wd40 and get some good penetrating oil. and get a damn torch and loose the heat gun.
It's on the list.
👍✌😎
Hello brad question after all . For all that work you did plus money you got tied up in that old John Deere . What do you think it was worth it ❓put all the effort into 1980 small ridding tractor . Reason I’m asking is cause . I purchase one my self. Couple month ago it was running fine but I forgot to raise the deck and run over some roots. 👎🏽 and snapped the belt .I did try to remove the cutter pins special the one at front they have some weird bolts hard to reach the cutter pins now I learn from your advise to remove the front tires . And worry about the other cutter pins later one thing at the time 😜 I’m glad the grass is not growing fast like in the beginning thank you for showing how to get my hand dirty 🤣
It’s worth changing the mower belt for sure, if that’s all that’s wrong with it.
Anti seize lube 😃
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