[AJD] Lawn Tractor

[Dee Schuyler]

Dave,
Now this probably will sound dumb, but is there enough meat on the rocker 
arm to be able to either deepen the cup with either a hand held dremel with 
a small round stone. or take them to your local machine shop and see if they 
could do it? Seems to me it would be a simple fix IF you have enough meat in 
the rocker arm pocket?
If not how about changing the radius on the push rod? All the above will be 
hardened  so it would be a grinding operation, not a lathe project.
Just a thought?
Dee
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave" <deere at gwltd.com>
To: "Antique John Deere mailing list" 
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Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [AJD] Lawn Tractor


> They told me that Deere was aware that there have been a few of these 
> bending the rods. Personally I think the reason mine bent, was sloppy 
> valve clearance. The rocker arms are a poor design in my opinion, the cup 
> on the rocker arm that the rod fits into is not very deep and if the 
> valves get a little sloppy they will slip pot of the rockers arms and then 
> you got trouble. So I plan to get the head fins cleaned out and check the 
> valve clearance twice or more per mowing season.
>
> Dave
>
> TSmith1499 at aol.com wrote:
>
>>I will have to say that this is the first time I have heard of that 
>>problem. I know we have sold
>>over 100 Z-Traks and I don't think I have ever heard of this happening to 
>>any of our customers..........so far.
>>Tom &  Beth Smith
>>Mount Airy, MD. Tsmith1499 at aol.com
>>1942 JD LA 1945  Unstyled AR
>>1957 720D Standard
>>1959 JD 435
>>1961 JD 3010
>>1969 JD 55  Combine
>>
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