Mower Deck Spindle Housing Cleanup

I really dread working on deck spindles mainly because of the mess they make trying to clean them up. This process makes cleaning the grease from the housing easy by using wadded up newspaper and forcing it through the bore of the housing directly into a trash bag. After a couple of passes each way it's ready for reassembly.

Here's one that shelled out the upper seal-spacer that was really ugly.

And after the newspaper treatment

Nice Major. Now I have another use for junk mail other than starting fires. :rolling

Geno wrote: Nice Major. Now I have another use for junk mail other than starting fires. :rolling

I'm with you Geno, most of my pulp junk mail is charcoal starter and I've never run out of it! Win win!!

Ready for the moly pump.

GT 14 wrote: Ready for the moly pump.

You bet GT, nothing but moly. It goes back together today. May take some reassembly pics for anyone who hasn't experienced the joy of tearing one down :faint

I have a granddaughter named Molly

Timely tip for me Major, I going to be replacing the bearings in one of my spindles this afternoon.

Thanks,