My mower turned good/bad/good. I got,(fell on the ground) to get my deck off for repairs, needed a different tool. I rolled around on the ground for 15 mins trying to get up. Called Tom, he came over and pulled the pins and drug it out for me. Went to put new blades on, wobble wobble on one spindle lower bearing. Pulled it out,  only took 2hrs🙄 Between my severe muscle fatige and can't no longer couple/uncouple my air tools with out draining the compressor to do so. I know i have an extra used one some where but can't find it.

Tom called couple days later, his old ladys friends dad died and they were selling farm. He helped clean stuff up, says what is your deck size. Told him 42, he says 9 old riders out there and one in shed 42" good deck. He brings it home and dropped it off. This baby is the same year as mine (1998) but has low hrs, is a DLT 3000 instead of my LT 1000, but almost everything the same. It has small single 18.5 hp, but same extended wheel base, large rear tire, rear big gas tank and 6-speed on the fly shift manual as mine.

Called Tom up today, as i got it in the garage to drop deck to swap with my mower. Got (fell) on the ground to try and unhook, 2 clips off and i was done. 15 mins to get back up, called Tom. He came over dropped, went to check everything and all topside looked good. Told him to flip over to check blades, he said look at all the shinny new parts. Flipped over blades bad. Had him swap, first one had bolt crossthreaded and drove home😡 got blade off, they never got the star shaft in the blade. It wore out the star, junk. Pulled the other spindle shaft out, they were both brand new, not even surface rusted. Replaced the other new shaft and bearings  in mine. Found a complete deck rebuild kit with everything, $75 and free shipping. Can't go wrong there. I had him order that for the new deck.

Any whoo, slap in the face to me. I'm really done doing anything labor wise. Not depressed, just pissed off at having life sucked out of me with this damn Rheumatoid Arthritis😡 Doc said very few
% of people get the really bad stuff. I'm the winner🤪

Rattiac, glad it settled in to a happy medium for you. Sometimes all you need is to walk away for a while😁

Thank you Ed!

I got a couple small things done, I sanded the distributor housings with  first 80 grit, then 180-360-600-
1000-2000 and 4000. it took just a few minutes to get them shiny after that.
I have new seals and gaskets in the distributors now, all bolted up with new hardware, new rotors and caps.
Last night I painted the gold stripes on the valve covers, and today my son was here, he sat in the kitchen
painting the CADILLAC script.
Just now in the evening, I screwed the valve covers to the heads with brass acrorn nuts and washers after
drenching the cam shafts in a liberal dose of stp.



Now I'm thinking about how to paint the air filter housings. Silver hammer varnish  is what they have been,
but maybe they should be black as not to add too many colors. They'll probably get an Air Maze fiter sticker
anyway, that's probably enough color.

Just with the stock linkage on my '06 Solverdo (in good condition) it took 3 cables before I got one that would adjust correctly.

Essex_29...that is a piece of art!