 Hey everyone, Shea Bear 1000 here. Today we're going to work on this 74 John Deere 112 electric lift The Motor deck is seized up on it of course, but I did get the lift working So that's good. That's good that that still works so I'm going to move the Corvette over there in the yard because I'm going to need all this space here to work on that thing So stick around I started this thing up last week So let's see if it'll start now Get it moved over into the yard if the door will unlock the John Deere will start Okay, so I just got the battery charger on there. It's not charging the battery I just put it on there because I need to boost I Had it running right before Christmas when I was messing around with some wiring and stuff like that, so Let's see if it'll start up for us Usually does have it on boost All right, let's back this thing out of here and we'll get it up here on the concrete a little bit, but It's old enough, right? All right, let's check this thing out. I Think it's got quick releases. I'll have to check. I never did look at it. Okay, so I believe you pull this out And turn it There should be one on the other side and then there's one here that you just pull out and the latch is there I believe and Same way with the other side. I think that's it other than the belt so I'll probably go ahead and pull that belt off first and then I Don't know that's pretty well tightened up there. That's why I brought the screwdriver out So I'm probably going to have to Spray that down and work with it a little bit Yeah, let's start move. All right, let me get them sprayed down Get that sprayed down because it's got a bunch of stuff now I don't know what kind of shape this decks and all I know is that it is locked up So I figured whoops to bring something out So let me get that sprayed down We'll see if we can get this deck off of here so we can take these covers off and see what's Seized up these old bearings Sometimes this is 74 sometimes these bearings you could get them freed up Murray grease them And they would be all right, but let's just see what's going on with it first All right, I pulled it a little I prided a little bit with this screwdriver Started moving so hey, there's that one. I've got to get up underneath. I don't think I can show you that one, but I'll try All right, let's go the other side Try not to get in your way guys Okay, it's moving. I guess some of this stuff done That way it'll be ready once I can save up enough tires enough money to get the tires And these hubs on the back I contacted a youtuber That has I don't know a hundred of these things and he's got like a little business small channel Contact him see if he had any of those rear hubs. He said no he had to get some too I guess there's a guy on eBay That's remaking them now so Which is good. I mean If you got a foraging stuff, it really wouldn't be that hard To make the mold To make when there's there's ways I fixed them before that's got a roller on it didn't know that By welding on to the axle, but if the axles good, I don't want to do that And also it takes a lot of time to grind it down to make it right But if that's what I got to do I'll do but All right, let's get you over here on the next one Where you at here? There it is. I Didn't take my belt off That's all right. I think that way of giving me a chance to check these pulleys out. Oh god Yeah, it's not gonna be good. Yeah, it's stuck on to the pulley. I know rubber don't rust right well It will rust to metal What happens is the metal rust and then Also, there's certain way you gotta put these belt on if you put it on backwards blades will run backwards Oh that popped back in Awesome. Gotta love it when that happens, right? Let me see if I can get that front piece off of there. I Forget how they come out this piece under here. It's got these roll pin That's all right. I Mean mess around see if I get this belt off of here. All right. Let's try to pull this out move this tractor and then I'll hose all that out or blow it off or something and then We'll see what's going on with it. Okay guys or something. I forgot to show you underneath there that I forgot about the left goes here and here and all it is is rods that hang down Go through here, and then it's just got a little Hair clip or hairpin or whatever you want to call it Sticks through there see back in the day. They didn't just Use these things for one thing that thing will run a tiller and it'll run a little plow and Snowblower and all that because there's a I think it's called a mule gear on the front of that That you can hook attachments up to So they wanted these to be easy See if this you know if this wasn't you know sent in for 25 years or 20 years or whatever 20 years in a building Yeah, I could have took this off with no tools at all because they wanted you to be able to change the implements out real quick because you know That is a garden tractor. You know, it's not a it's not a lawn tractor It's called a garden tractor because even attached the implements to it now like monkeys. It's really not a garden tractor It's a lawn tractor But so You know you had like especially on the farm you had big big machinery Well, if you wanted to till up a garden, you know, not very big. Let's say half the size of this yard You wouldn't want to get out You know the big international harvester for you get on your smaller tractor and use it So, you know, they were they were real versatile That's called a very speed or Verbal drive here You pull it back you go slower you push it forward and it goes faster It's not working There's a pulley under there. We'll get to that in another video but So anyway, this thing I Have to take the arms off of it and then there's three bolts in front and to them back I've got them sprayed down normally if those were boats Boat heads I wouldn't even sprayed them because it wouldn't do no good. But since there's a couple threads Showing I went ahead and sprayed them down. I don't know if this has if they're boats or if they're You know welded in studs or what so well, let's go ahead and check it because I haven't seen underneath this thing yet So let's get you on stand Well, maybe I'm just set you down right here. Hopefully I don't kick you over something Lift this up Wow, I Don't think these blades have ever been mowed with You still see the black paint. This is the cutting edge and All of them. No, there's not a nick in any of them so my guess is They put new blades on this thing and never ran it after that they put new blades on it and parked it So, let me see There's one so I don't know there's where the boats go through Let's just go ahead and try to take one apart and see what happens. I Got my stuff set up here. I don't know if this got enough balls to do it, but let's see I Don't want to break it off Yeah Let me go ahead and get you on stand. We'll speed you up through this and I'll slow you back down when we pull this cover off Okay We're seeing this for the first time together guys. Hey, here we go. Pretty bad Well, the deck's all right I'll get this sprayed off. I might be able to get a Rancher ratchet or something on here and turn these I don't know My guess is there are probably all locked up could just be the belt All right So I'm gonna pull that belt off. All I got to do is pull this over and get it unstuck from the pulley I'll pull this belt off and Well first I'm gonna blow it out Then we'll see which ones are locked up which ones are not Okay pirates and pirates who's what we're looking at There's not one hole in this deck There is however a little rest spot on that thing. I'll have to address maybe But there the deck is in perfect shape This pulley now don't get me wrong guys This is gonna need rebuilt this deck's gonna need rebuilt but that one's starting to turn That one turns This one starts to And all Three of these looks like yeah, this one's starting to move a little bit or seized up So I'm gonna have to rebuild this deck It's not that big of a deal to me. I Just kind of wanted to see what I was looking at that's to make this thing mo First of all, you know that thing's gonna need tires and a battery These wheels you can take them off and spin them around You can take these wheels off spin them around and they'll stick out wider. That was for stability You know less chance of tipping over And also if you had to get in You know, it's kind of in line with the front maybe even in a little bit more, but and also Mowing around things, you know, you don't want your wheels out real wide, but When I get tires on here, I am gonna spend those tires or spin the wheels around So they stuck out a little farther Here's an idea guys. I see my uncle do I remember I was probably eight or nine years old Maybe 10 or 11 somewhere in there he had a little little garden tractor he used around the farm and he took a couple old Torque converters, you know, we had the junkyard. So we always had that stuff laying around He took a couple matching torque converters Filled them up with concrete bolted them on to the wheels. That was these wheel weights So if you have a couple old torque converters laying around Go for it. I've also seen guys use, you know, lifting weights and stuff like that. I Will have to get some weights for it because I plan on pulling that maybe not this it probably won't be this summer But definitely next year. We're gonna put in a garden tractor pulls So should be fun. But anyway Yeah, I want to spray these down I'm not I'm not even sure how this comes off. I don't know if there's a pin in there or a clip But I'm gonna spray them down Just see if we can get them to turn Yeah, they're never I'll never be I'll never mow with it But just kind of fun to mess around. So yeah, that's gonna need rebuilt that springs. Okay I'm not gonna need blades that's for sure so it looks like I'm gonna need Two of those pulleys one of those double pulleys and And See this pulley This pulley doesn't run this top one doesn't run anything it runs on the bottom This is what comes from the motor that turns this this one. So Let me get sprayed down mess around with it a little bit Just for fun And then I don't think I'm gonna put it on yet. I think I'll put that back on here Take the boat all the way off of that thing Of course, I'll get new belts And I'll put this on the trailer and take it around back. I'll spray it down real good with WD-40 Yeah awesome, so yeah, that's good that the Dexon has good a shape as it's in because That'd be cool to be able to to use that every so often So I'll be back with you guys. Okay guys, so that's pretty cool everything freed up I Used that wrench there See which one was it this was the hardest one When I say hardest, I mean it was the hardest one out of three I didn't really have to put any pressure on anything to To get it to move all the pulley spin, of course, they'll never be used again Those don't the spindles for the blades don't have grease sirts if they had grease sirts I Can bring them back around what you do is And they'd probably run me another season Shoot them full of clean grease kick your mother dex on for a minute Shot it off grease it again And you keep doing that until all till you see nothing but clean grease coming out and that'll usually get you by another season if They're in half a decent shape like these are I could drill them out and put grease sirts in them, but The pulleys aren't that great. So I think I Think I'll just overhaul this whole deck. Unfortunately. I'm gonna have to paint us There's no holes in it, but it is rusty So I will have to paint that because I like keeping the nostalgic, you know, this is all patina here all this rust That's patina. There's no rust holes in it just run some Some of that fine, it's gray Oh Scotch bright on it a lot of guys will just oil them down They'll mix up a you know some oil and tranny fluid or whatever and they'll just oil them down But I would probably just I would clearcoat it But I like the nostalgia, I don't know but this definitely gonna have to be painted or you know It'll just get really bad the back of this don't look bad at all Of course, you know, it'll get It'll get all repainted to just rattle cans. So that's pretty cool Everything freed up Yeah, you had too bad them don't have grease earths in them because I could have brought them around and I would have just had to buy three pulleys because this one spinning But it's a little noisy. I Actually have One of those pulleys either That one or that one I actually have I think sitting right No, I don't this one's too wide What a shame, but yeah, I mean I can rebuild that deck probably for I mean, so it's all China parts But I'd probably rebuild that thing for around 75 bucks and get get the blades I don't need the blades, but if it comes with a kid, I'll hang them on the wall Probably never get used. This will just be a backup mower For when monkeys breaks down. I don't like John Deere's guys I like to work on them. I mean look at that if I want to pull that engine You know, I got to get down underneath there and I've been under there before and then bolts aren't easy to get to to hold that motor on Big tractors international harvester the older the better. I like this is my opinion guys You know like the farm walls Love the old farm walls grew up on a 47 1947 farm all a which was One size bigger than the cub I do believe You know if it ain't red leave it in the shed But I wanted to save this because I knew no one would save that they would just go straight to junk Or because that thing probably weighs 800 pounds with that deck on it. That's no joke. It probably If I had to guess that'd be around 800 pounds So you know And when scrap scrap like this is by the time You know, that's almost half your money right there of just one ton But I just love taking stuff like this I don't like Restoring them like if I paint that I'm not going to call it a restorer because I'm not restoring this thing. I want to you know Just kind of keep it the way it is. I'm like I said, I may shoot a coat of paint on it But I mean this is cool. These are usually gone Inside of here they get cracked up this one has a few little cracks, but it's still there and this steering wheel is in Perfect condition not one crack in it. It's in perfect condition a Little nick there, but it's not a crack The steering is okay. It steers easy You know just something for sent in over 20 years, you know and you drag it out you couldn't even see the motor because of all the squirrel stuff in it and Pack ratch yeah, we got pack rats around here. If you don't watch them, they'll get in your cars and trucks and whatever You know, I just like to save old stuff like this Would I ever get rid of it? Hell yeah, especially if I can get me a a formal cub or a formal. Hey Of course, that's not worth. You know these things ain't worth a whole lot of money but Yeah, if I could come up with something else that's old Preferably older than that. I'd like to have something from the 30s 40s. Maybe early 50s That's what I'd like to have and something a little bigger than that But you know, it's fun. It was free. I have how much money I got in this The carburetor I think it was 12 bucks. I got like 12 bucks in this thing. I got a lot of time I got to get a tank my tank the one we soldered up on It soldered fine and didn't leak and the tanks in perfect condition Except for where the cap goes on that rusted out and the cap will never stay on it So I have to get me a tank for that thing But yeah, so there it is I'm gonna throw That spring back on so don't get lost. I'm gonna throw that cover back on as you can see I've got it sprayed down real good with WD-40. He's about a half can of that big can at WD-40. He's about a half can on it come out a couple times a month and just spray it down and I Should stop that rusting because it does evaporate but in the meantime until it does it'll be soaking into all that rust And it'll keep it from getting rusty or so. I don't think I'll have to worry about the bottom I may shoot it down later, but it's gonna be something like that. So All right guys, I'll be back with you. Let me get some of this done Like I said, I'm just gonna put that all back I'll probably put the belt on it just So it doesn't get lost And then I'll be back with you guys Yeah, you guys know me better than that, don't you? All right That's just kicking on of course. I'll never mow with it number one. I don't have tires And number two, it's just never gonna mow With those parts in it, but let's just kick it on and see what happens. All right, let's you know just for fun Let's give it a shot stay home for a minute didn't I think the inner belt came off Because when I was spinning it it was kind of running like on the edge No It was this belt. Oh Name belt four came off. All right, let me fix that Let's give it another shot. That was pretty cool. All right, let's try it again. That's funny All right guys Well, we know what the mower deck needs. I figured it was gonna need to rebuild but Anyway I gotta get pulled back around here and get it parked. All right guys, so That's pretty cool that you know, we got it the word spin. I didn't think that was gonna happen but when I put that They put the belt back on in the spring and everything so I wouldn't lose it and I thought you know, I Really got to do is throw it up under there and let's try it. I believe that If I had tires on here, it probably cut the grass a couple times before bad stuff started happening And by that I don't mean like stuff blowing up I mean just like the belts coming off and stuff came off that one time But it came off up here. I thought it was gonna come off if anywhere down underneath the deck. So But yeah, that's pretty fun always run this thing out of gas whenever whenever I park it. So It's not charging So hopefully it's not the alternator if it is I Got an extra pulley up here. I probably just put a single wire GM alternator on it I don't know. We'll just have to see it could be at that regulator I don't know that's something we'll have to look at later Because it's got it'll run Without it being on charger. That's because there's a little bit of juice in that battery Not enough to crank it, but there is a little bit of juice enough to run it So Yeah, I think I'll measure the truck battery I think it's gonna be too big but That's all later on just kind of Just kind of messing around Man, I can't wait to get tires on this thing. Then I can at least ride it around here You know, I'm down a street taking down to the store. Yeah, that'd be fun all right guys anyway appreciate you watching support my channel and Yeah, we'll see all we'll see y'all guys We'll see all you guys and girls in the next one So with that being said she bear the myth of man the legend. I'm gone for now cars they're going by whenever I have a camera off Honestly There might be one car go by I turned the camera on and what was that two three? Whatever? I don't know Anyway, we'll see you guys in the next one. Bye. Bye. Take care. Don't forget to check out monkey's channel So we'll see you soon