[AJD] Lawn Tractor

[Dee Schuyler]

I wonder, Richard  if it could have been shipped from the factory on a 
pallet and the front axle assembled at the dealership? That would almost 
make more sense to me?
Dee
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard D Lotze" <rdlotze at juno.com>
To: <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 4:29 PM
Subject: [AJD] Lawn Tractor


> Someone might run into this problem.
>
> I just bought a L120 lawn tractor at a dealer overstock Auction. It only
> had 240 hrs and yet the front tires were bald. everything else was in
> great shape. It was going cheap enough so I bid on it and it became mine.
> When I went to load it on the trailer it steered terrible. The wheels
> where towed out and tight turns were impossible as the two wheels would
> fight each other. I get it home and figured I'd adjust the drag links.
> Wrong - NO adjustment. This model has two pre bent non adjustable links -
> one to each wheel from the steering sector. 1st thought was that axle was
> bent, but it is cast iron. 2nd thought is that the Steel frame is bent.
> Straight edge says no. 3rd thought is that cast iron axle would have
> precast camber built in and if axle was in backwards this would put
> camber backwards thus making the drag links the wrong length. Had to take
> muffler and guards off to get at the King pin and found Deere used a bolt
> and nut requiring an 18MM wrench, which is not supplied in any regular
> wrench and socket sets, and no SAE size worked and the adjustable wrench
> rounded off  the corners. So out comes the Blue wrench (torch). So after
> turning the axle around the wheels now are towed in and it makes very
> tight turns with ease. THIS MOWER WAS ASSEMBLED WRONG IN THE FACTORY and
> apparently the dealer didn't know how to fix it so he just sold the owner
> a new one.
> So if you have this problem you now know how to fix it.
> Dick L.
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