Model 425 John Deere Lawn Tractor with pre 1998 Kawasaki Engine Failure

This is the cam shaft and water pump for my John Deere 425 garden tractor after 860 hours of work. It suddenly failed while I was backing it out of the barn. The machine had been running perfectly but when this happened I was all done. The engine sounded different when I rolled it. It rolled easily since it had no compression. I never thought of a completely broken engine so I checked for spark and for fuel. Of course, I had both. This repair cost $1028 in this area and tied up my mower for three weeks. I have been driving John Deere equipment since I was six, now I am sixty-two, and I have never had them fail this badly before.

This model has a Kawasaki engine that was as smooth as silk. It was so well balanced that when one of its' two cylinders was misfiring, you noticed no vibration in the engine. All you had was a lose of power. These broken, non-metalic gears might have helped make the engine smooth. Too bad, they regularly fail at low engine hours. This problem is reported all over the net. Too bad, I didn't check for it before I lost my water pump too.

Tags: John Deere, Model 425, Kawasaki, 20 hp engine, lawn tractor

It's a New World Coming

I am trying to get my Palm Centro cell phone and the email messages on the computer lined up. Right now I have Mobile Email on the Palm which  downloads everything on the email accounts that I have set up there.  The question is "does that download delete the message from the online source so that I never get it in my pc?"  The Palm is a near instantaneous device.  Emails come down real time but talking to my pc on my home network is not clear cut yet.  It will come to me.

The Fun of Winter

Where would I be without the cold outside to do the yard work for me and let me have the time to catch up on all my blogs that have laid so dormat in the course of the last six months?  The blogging time of year is here.  Knowledge will swell and I will be less behind.  It can be a great time of year.

Now its off to the

Now its off to the garage design

Daily Rambles Moves to Blogger

After having this blog on AOL for a couple of years, I was disappointed when AOL announced that they were shutting down the service.  I have had about ten blogs on Blogspot all through this period so moving there is a simplification for me.  Yeah, Change.

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"Moonlight" from myaol's AOL Pictures Public Gallery. 

Sometimes, something on the net just lights up your life.  This picture is one of those things.  It looks like the background of a story.  I just love it.

Tags: Greece, moonlight, water, inlet

First Day Back to Normal

The holidays are over.  Reality returns.  We went to Zehnder's in Frankenmuth for New Years Eve

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It was an early night but a good one.  I was up until 12 but not much longer.

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