oh my goodness place it a disaster would you just look at it holy crap I don't like to bet on camera but like damn past couple days I've trashed this place holy anyway guess so today is well actually tonight is Wednesday it's round I think 7:30 8 o'clock let's take a quick little peek here yep 747 and we're going to do some my work yep that's right very been working all day installing laminate flooring and if you've ever installed laminate floor and you know how much you just want a humma trade on a friggin window yeah so anyway I got some parts in and we're going to make a how-to video today on replacing a craftsman slash ayp slash Husqvarna slash whatever the you want to call them mower deck spindle hippy yeah that's I bring you son of a right there and well it's going into a craftsman 42 inch lawn mower deck and we're going to show you how to replace one of these puppies so this is a brand new mower deck spindled mandrel whatever the fray you want to call them as you can see it's all nice and shiny ship from this came from Minnesota nope tell soak Lahoma that out there so this is our new guy as you guys may or may not know we're going to cross a 42 inch deck in and buddy they're broke is housing I'll show you guys that so first step is to clean your shop up and yes I'm going to do a monthly nice place up and then I'm going to bring the deck end I'm going to show you guys how to repair a broken mower deck spindle and also give this camera chance to charge up which reminds me of camera if we all hope by Monday key word is hope if they don't fix my my good camera my Sony changes are we the Best Buy gift certificate to where I can go up by a little bit nicer camera so I look really nice so let's open till Monday let's keep our fingers crossed so anyway I'm on things place up put you guys on the charger and we'll get back to you a little bit oh yeah this place is just a wreck so isn't this cameras all busted and holy oh yeah we got an HTC EVO camera charger that's a genuine right there all right well shop somewhat clean now but get enough fun to work so first up what you're going to want to do is either whatever whatever you feel like doing first you can either a take off your little plastic piece here if you're working on the other side there so obviously you're not going to have it I've noticed doing this a lot is that you usually commonly break this side first rather than that side why that is I don't know but that's what's what I've noticed so first up you know for me anyway I'm going to be taking off the pulley first and then that's first going to drop the mandrel the owner of the tractor slash mower deck here there's already taken off the mower deck blade so he's already gone ahead and taken off this guy here and one of the blades so that is out of my question so you can go ahead do that too so I'm going to go ahead take my impact gun stick the right nut on it for me it's a it's a 7/8 socket obviously and we'll zip that off real quick so I'll go ahead and do it alright so once you're done doing that take a nut off like so sometimes that guy gets a little bit stuck so you take a hammer to it neither a use verb mallet or B he's a very oh ham er me I'm gonna do the rubber mallet technique just gonna bang on the side a little bit loosen up from the splines and boom it out just like that those little splines there sometimes if you hit a rock or something like that you'll pray in with stripping them out and have to replace the pulley this one here looks pretty good so we'll go ahead save that next up slide your deck over and boom there's your broken mandrel that's the skated he snapped all four of them I mean all three of them so it is where does scrap metal now perfect I got to take a load of cast aluminum in soon all right so for me my next step is going to be to take the plastic shroud off usually for you guys you compare just take your blade off next and then Chuck your mandrel halfway across your floor so I just saved myself some time whoo or he saved me some time whatever so these here take a little star wrench guys I have a t25 or something like that I'll figure it out let you guys know all right so I got the bolts off usually these things like to snap and never want to come out but this one here you are pretty good no problems so I let it go two of them because I guess the owner must have snapped a shield off I gave him a call I said I don't worry about it so we got to go with it if it's broken your spray replaces are also going to get your pant pant wool cloth hair stuck in the thing someday you know I've done it once or twice keyword right there yeah dirty will be a loss I did that once so our next step is you're going to want to take off your remnants of the broken cast aluminum pieces like here and what I usually do is all you just stick a pair of vise grips or something in there to really jaw lock it on and you gotta take a half-inch socket there here's your impact gun if you're using a wrench good luck with you because you'll probably never quite really get them off usually what's going to happen either it break free or it'll snap it'll snap the bolt off and if neither of those happen you're probably going to have to heat it and usually heating aluminum isn't all that good thing to do but in some cases you might have to do it so I'm going to go ahead give her a shot my need two hands for it so maybe I can put you guys down like that yep forget a razor goes up so I could actually put you on the table saw something like that so guess we'll give her a shot OOP more about to tip over your pulley on you there we go that'll make it work so I'm going to try to hopefully work sometimes I'm going to keep going yet now let's now I know don't leave the bolt that comes with it unless you get an emergency my off eBay so yeah they came with you both with it so I never wear it these are the script on good guys too you don't want that thing freaking kicking off and surprisingly this one came out so first I'll show you what I got you're either going to end up like what minded either ones going to perfectly come out like this one did full-blown tapping bolt came out perfectly out of this one and this one here snapped right off see the things down there so usually if you're going to be ordering through Sears and you're not getting a complete a bearing setup like if you're just getting the housing usually series will charge you about twenty bucks just for the aluminum housing and it'll be like another sixty dollars for the whole complete thing without the bolts so chances are he better off bordering on one off the ebay like what I did where is a housing at right here have the thing shipped to my house it was thirty bucks the unit was twenty bucks itself and there was another ten bucks to ship in my house and it came with a brand new bearings brand new bolts and pretty much good to go there so what I'm going to do is just kind of sort of clean this up I'll scrape some of the stuff off there unbend these little pieces here what this guy does is just catch so like a grass deflector from getting all on the deck and that's pretty much all what it does so go ahead plane that up and you can install your new mandrel like I'm about to do so we'll go ahead install it and we'll get back to you in a bit oh yeah nice and shiny I like shiny things alright so we got the mandrel in place they're all bolted up one thing I want to tell you guys is don't go crazy do not use your impact gun when you're going to put your new manager lawn because of the fact if you go too far you're most likely just going to strip right out the self-tapping screw there you'll just strip right out the aluminum out the threading that's already either there or the stuff you have to make and I've done that once or twice that's not fun so she did go ahead use a regular ratchet and you know good to go there another thing is you got to remember where you put your little spring tensioner guy like this one right here see how that is like that a little spring on right there right there do the same thing you can either copy it usually it's a very small little indentation there we'll go into the groove then you're both and then that's pretty much it and then you get you the screw guy spring move over here to here to the bolt in well there is no ball go there's like a little tiny hole there and you spring go from there to there and now you know that's pretty much a brake system but uh I just happen to notice that the guy didn't give me the spring so I'll just have to grab one off of my other mowers and take her from there I think this is also supposed to be in other Springs somewhere in here and notice it's missing as well so I'll go ahead replace that form no big deal so but uh yeah we're looking pretty good so we can unscrew this guy take that off actually that's gonna stay on like that and just stick the pulley back on actually no more oh wait I mean I know what the problem is the pulley sat down on me so that's actually got to come up up so I have to have two hands for that usually what happens is like what happened with me the shaft actually get pushed down just because of the weight of the blade or whatever you get on the bottom there so I'm going to push that up and get it going from that way so just get a pusher up no there yeah that's what the problem is so good stick around through there and we're pretty much good to go from there so I'll go ahead and do that Eric so I go ahead do that as you can tell the little splines are now upward so I can now put the washer on I'll go like that and a sticky pulley on there and see how it just lines up like so go ahead and stick your nut on there come on and there you go take your impact on thinker in there Zhaan if she spins spins perfect perfect so next up which again I want to do is go ahead put your blade on I've already gone ahead and just tighten it on not full bore yet it's just you know loose so one thing when you're doing your blades guys always remember to put your blades on the right way I've seen so many lawn mowers with upside-down blades guys you don't want you pretty much you don't want to see the angle side is when you go to put your blade on I can't I've seen so many lawn mowers this year with upside-down blades I find it kind of funny to be honest with you I actually put out I've seen it twice this year I put a brand new set of Gator blades on a Husqvarna tractor actually saw my Husqvarna zero turn and I'm just trying to find this under bridge here in the my other Husqvarna the racing mejor that actually got a brand new set of blades to because people put the blades on upside down awesome I love it when that happens so we're going to take the impact gun here but take that off put that on Oh me a 7/16 out of 5/8 yeah that's what the problem is yeah we go huh so when I need 7/16 yet that fit a little better okay let's go every plunge the song I get the stair connector fixed cause it sucks oh and just like that your son of a is on and the only noise is hitting this just because of all the grass buildup on the side so once you get all that back together you get your mower deck commander all in place go ahead you can take your your shield their bolt your shield back on like so and we'll take her from there and I'll show you guys the spring setup once we're all done awesome all right so I've gone ahead and put the shroud piece back on now I'm going to show you those two springs that's talking about now this one right here this is your brake spring and this one right here is kind of so do you touch return spring I noticed that he didn't have his on there just no big deal luckily I had to belt back off of a mower deck so let's stick these two guys on there like so this one goes like there and this is going to go right into that crack just like that something like so pretty basic you know I knew something was missing there's just returned spring see how it returns it boom just like that and then next up is your brake spring and go like that's so through there and then pretty much this crimper on like that and that's your brake spring see how this works is this piece here goes in like that this little ball that pushes the two breaks apart from there and it operates your spindle system and when you go to shut off your mower deck like shot like that these will actually stop your mower deck spindle from spinning so it's pretty slick design so the next thing I got to do is just put the belts back on which isn't that big of a deal you can either a follow your instructions like so or if you like me he already knows that do it and done it once or twice before go ahead just put your belts on like this this bill it's gonna go on like that preg in your two hands to do it but you know you guys will get the picture and try to get that guy in there yeah I need two hands to do it but I'll go ahead and put the belts on and we'll get back to yourself alright so there you have it belts on pretty much I just getting high up on the brake there for that that was back that so I just pushed hitting gauge slip the belt on to the little pulley trick there and boom so one thing what you're going to be doing is if you read even have the mower deck off and don't feel like ever really taking it off again one thing to check is just make sure your bearings are good like this one here this one's fine and this one right here you'll be able to hear like a windy bearing noise that just squeals a lot if that's the case go ahead and replace the two bearings and there save yourself the trouble for ripping off the deck same deal like the mower deck this other mandrel it fits the grill squeaky as well like a squealing noise when you hear when you're mowing and it's not smooth vibration through your feet and the floorboards chances are you're pretty good bad bearing there and you don't have to buy the entire mandrel like what I did you can actually just buy the bearings separately so I'm just trying to find the pieces I threw over here to show you guys it yeah I've already lost the piece but if you have like a press or even a rubber mount you can sometimes just whack the shaft right out of the mandrel oh there it is you can just go ahead whack the shaft right out of that mandrel there Sylvia save yourself the time you won't even have to unbolt the the deck just go ahead and you know give her a good beat in there which is Emma straight you go down here for a second come on stay and Anders just hit the shaft there and just eventually pop out boom see there's one bearing right there ooh there's one bearing right there as you can see that's on the shaft and then there's still another one on there you just take a screwdriver and beat down on there and go ahead and replace those so like I said it's a good pretty good investment if you're going to be doing it if you hear any bad bearings another thing I like to do on when I'm doing a customer's machine here I like to you know clean it up I like to blow all the grass clippings and I like to paint any rough spot like what he has right there if it's a good customer that you know throw a little bit of truck bed coating on the rest spots they'll like it trust me I know that gives you good business and if you the blades need to be sharpened go ahead and sharpen them these blades are actually pretty much new so I didn't really need to sharpen them so I'm going to go ahead below this deck off hitter real quick a little bit of matte finish there and we'll take her away all right man it's just about ready to make the video and managers have a sneezing fit holy castles like grass near for some reason anyway so I'm not so quick tip for the homeowner if you're going to be just you know your homeowner watching this video and can be doing yourself one thing I've learned is go ahead and just paint your deck in advance very going to have your mandrels off and if you're gonna be doing a banging job just go ahead go down to autozone VIP auto parts a NAPA Auto Parts whatever grab a little can that truck bed coating stuff sprays in the can and do your deck it'll really let make a deck last forever so I gone ahead I just hit it with a little bit of quick color you know the Home Depot special and it's all cleaned up now as you can tell so actually good I get that guy in the right spot that belts not supposed to be like that so we'll go ahead fix that up no problem but uh-huh that's weird actually the belts in the right spot but the belt retainer is not I'm not going to worry about it so anyway so as you can see all back together and that's pretty much how you do it you know nothing too too fancy to it I think tomorrow night's video is going to be how to install a Craftsman lawn tractor deck going to cross from LT 2,000 consider I get no more other videos to post up so we'll go ahead and do that as tomorrow night's video I guess and if you like the video and you know you want to be doing this yourself and hopefully it helps you and you like the videos subscribe you know if you don't well then go off so anyway we'll talk to you guys maybe tomorrow night and until then don't break your Crossman mower deck mandrel oh yeah spawn fun fun