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One other thing. How much shaft overlap should a have? That is, how much should one shaft be inserted into the other. According to my measurements, when my mower is on the ground, my internal shaft is inserted about 6"-7" inside of the other shaft.

So I checked some things over the weekend. The guard on the back half of the shaft that connects to the mower was cut too short at some point before I had the mower So the bare shaft is exposed in the middle of the shaft giving me a visual on the bare shaft. That is how I saw the wobble. I...

Why not use it? I assume it could damage seals or possible gears inside the tractor? I'd appreciate to hear your concerns.

Thanks guys. Lots of good points here. I'll need to make a list to run down all the items to check. :)

Thanks for the input guys. The question of what is bending the shafts is a good question. My yard is pretty rough and the rough cut mover often hits gopher mounds and things like that. So that might be what did that shaft in. The finish mower is something I got from my dad a couple years...

So I have 2 mowers, a rough cut and a finish mower. For years my rough cut mower had a twisted PTO shaft that I could see wobble slightly as I used it. So I purchased a new one a year or 2 ago. Only to have it develop a slight wobble over the summer as well. The other night, I noticed that...

Good point. That never crossed my mind. I haven't used them before for any extended period of time. So I've never had one break. It never even crossed my mind it would break. I'll definetely look into something more permanent. Thanks for the input.

I'll have to look into that. I didn't know they had generic kits out there.I did have an idea to just drill out some angle iron and use some 'ready rod' to make a tie down that was similar to the factory tie down. I wonder how much difference it will really make on a lawn mower though. The...

I appreciate that. I've been looking at dimension numbers on the different battery groups and trying to figure out what works. However, when I look at specific batteries, it seams that batteries can vary by size a little even within a group. I'm starting to think that maybe a 51R will work...

dlundblad - Can you check the height on that 151R for me please. I looked at the measurements wrong before. Looking at the numbers again, it looks like that battery is the same height as the 51R and it would hit the hood. It must be super close if thats what you are using. Would the 51R you...

Thank you that looks correct. I was getting tired of all the dead ends. I was just about ready to cut off the terminal ends and just use a standard garden tractor battery as indicated in the first post. I also measured the R51 and it was too tall. The terminals would have hit the hood. So...

I picked up an old G4200 recently and it does not have a battery in it. So I have nothing to measure to see what fits. What is the stock size battery in this tractor? Or what fits in the stock location? If you have something other than stock, tell me what you guys are using in these machines...

I did not know there was an adjustment. What is the WSM? Is it a service manual? All I have is the operators manual

My L3800 has about 600 hours on it. I was doing some work this weekend and noticed I couldn't pull it out of gear. Then I noticed that the tractor was actually slowly moving forward while I had the clutch pedal pushed in. I also noticed at that time it was making a whining sound. I shut the...

Thanks guys, good food for thought.