[AT] Yanmar

[Brad Gunnells]

Well I can't offer much here but, the best bet if you can't find a  
dealer to look up the parts would be to take what you have to a  
bearing specialty shop. I needed some bearings for an old Gehl  
Hammermill many years ago. I took one of the bad bearings with me and  
they were able to measure the exterior and interior dimensions and  
given the way it mounted find a suitable replacement.

Brad

On May 24, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:

> 	When I picked up the Yanmar this morning the seller came out  
> quite  embarrassed and
> concerned...  He had driven it to a location near the driveway and  
> while he was
> driving it the steering  started acting funny. I already figured  
> that the steering
> needed work from when I looked at it and had allowed for that. We  
> sat the finish
> mower on my smaller trailer since it needs front end weight on the  
> tractor and the
> ones he had used had been returned to the relative he borrowed them  
> from. I got the
> tractor "herded" home and to the shop to check it out. It ran great  
> going home and
> everything mechanical but the steering works fine. I had noted that  
> nothing but the
> starter on the electrical system worked. The wiring all looks to be  
> in nice shape
> but when I looked for fuses the fuse block has what looks like  
> small bits of wire to
> serve as fuses??? I assume that this stuff is some sort of fusible  
> link like wire? I
> think I will re-fuse everything with blade fuses.
>
> 	Now on to the steering problem... I stripped it down and removed  
> the steering
> gearbox and took it apart. The gears look fine. The problem is that  
> the upper and
> lower ball bearings in the gearbox are both bad. Also the upper  
> race mounted at the
> base of the column tube is broken. These bearings run against a  
> round shoulder on
> the steering shaft, one just above and one just below the gear. The  
> gearbox is a re-
> circulating ball unit and that part seems OK. All I found of the  
> bearings was some
> loose balls and a pair of really bad cages.
> 	Does anyone accidentally have any experience with these bearings  
> or the best place
> to start looking for them? The seller mentioned that for what  
> common items (filters,
> belt, starter solenoid etc.) it had needed that he had been able to  
> find at NAPA. I
> wouldn't expect them to have the bearings at all. There is not  
> enough left of those
> cages to find a number on them if they even ever had one. I would  
> suppose that
> gearbox and those bearings might be used in several models???
> 	It is a nice little tractor and generally in nice condition but I  
> was not on hand
> when it was built or I would have slapped somebody for making it  
> that hard to get on
> and off...     <(^¿^)>   Dang... those engineers must have had  
> small feet...
> <(^¿^)>
> 	There is still a dealer sticker on it from:
> Tom Witvoet & Sons
> 12501 W. Rte. 17
> Herscher, IL 60941
> 815-426-2308
>
> 	I have not had time to check on them yet to see if they still  
> exist. What I assume
> is the serial # is 03944 The model is YM-1500
>
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack
> me at once.   :-)
>
> Refurbished Shopsmith's
> Good used SPT's
> http://www.indiana-robinson.0catch.com/
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
>
>
>
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