Lawnmower deck spindle disassembly

I'm trying to replace the bearings on the deck spindle but the blade mount bar won't fricking come off. It doesn't even look rusty WTF? It's just screwed on!
Part 0060 in the diagram.

You can see it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhGAAGT2umM

I've tried holding the shaft with vice grips tight as I can get um, heating up the bar with a MAP gas torch till its smoking' hot and hitting it with a big ass hammer and nothing... Shaft just spins in the vice grips. What the frick do?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Kevin Van Dam

    Impact wrench.

    Mower blades are such a c**t to get off without an impact wrench, and then they take 2 seconds to remove with the impact.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I used one to remove the top nut, how will it remove the bar??

      • 11 months ago
        Kevin Van Dam

        Ahh it’s not a nut holding it on.

        It’s not reverse threaded, is it?

        Didn’t watch the video yet either

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The bar doesn't look to be threaded to the shaft. Press the bar off with a bearing press or put two large blocks of wood, etc on ground. Put the assembly between them with spindle down with bar bridging gap between blocks. Put the nut on end of shaft to protect the threads and hammer the end of the shaft to push it out of the bar.

          Yeah! Like the boomer video!

          Looks like one of those things where if you hit the bar on either side, it just digs in more, so you need to be hammering in the center some way to get equal force on both sides of the bar.

          reverse threads are fun

          It's not pressed on or reverse threaded, its standard threaded on. Lefty loosey.

          • 11 months ago
            Kevin Van Dam

            Get better vise grips or hold it in a vise or maybe even a big pipe wrench.

            I’m guessing the shaft is some hard steel so chinese vise grips just slip and never bite in. If you have a good pipe wrench or vise grips or a vise and the teeth are properly hardened, you will have a much better chance of gripping the shaft.

            Not going to lie, a good wrench won’t be cheap, but shit will help in the future.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The bar doesn't look to be threaded to the shaft. Press the bar off with a bearing press or put two large blocks of wood, etc on ground. Put the assembly between them with spindle down with bar bridging gap between blocks. Put the nut on end of shaft to protect the threads and hammer the end of the shaft to push it out of the bar.

    • 11 months ago
      Kevin Van Dam

      Yeah! Like the boomer video!

      Looks like one of those things where if you hit the bar on either side, it just digs in more, so you need to be hammering in the center some way to get equal force on both sides of the bar.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    reverse threads are fun

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well I got it out of the deck anyway, the snap rings where a c**t, b***h, prostitute, and a slit combined.

    I don't have a pipe wrench small enough to grab the unthreaded part.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Found a small pipe wrench, definitely hard enough to bite into the metal but still not a hint of movement. Only idea I got left is weld something to the shaft and hope I can grind it back down smooth enough?

    • 11 months ago
      Kevin Van Dam

      Get the MAPP back out now, get a bigger hammer, clamp that b***h down the best you can and whack it with a steel 4lb+ hammer.

      Or vise the rectangle part and then cheater bar on the pipe wrench

      How much does the assembly cost new?

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

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    It only comes apart one way, which requires removing that bar. You can see in the video.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Every time you hit a rock with your mower blades the whole assembly tightens up a little bit.
    Do that for 10 years and the fricking thing might as well be welded together.
    If you can find a replacement part, or make one yourself; it doesn't look that difficult- I would just torch that shit off.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Decided to beat off my shaft some more and NOW it came off.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Not OP but since this is a thread about mowers does anyone know a place to check for used mower parts online? My dad is giving me his old toro timecutter 4235 and the deck is banged up good. Pic Related is a direct replacement that's over $800. The deck I have is able to be saved but it's probably going to take me like a day to bang it out and I'll need to borrow an oxy/acetylene rig and weld a bunch of cracks and some reinforcement bars on it. If I could get one for between $100-$200 in bad but workable shape that makes more sense to me. Don't know where to start looking at aside from maybe calling some mower repair places or putting an ad on craigslist.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Vice grips suck. Get a pipe wrench, a real pipe wrench not one of those junk ones.
    The bar doesn't appear to have threads. I would heat the bar and see if it works off. If not, I would hot, cold, hot, cold, hot the bar to see if it breaks loose that way. (Same process with brake bleeders)

    Also, please check you have not mushroomed the shaft, with will make getting the bar off impossible.

    Good luck. Last time I was here, it was a 6 ft Brushhog. I had a 1 inch impact though, so there's that.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ask a pedophile israelite if you cant borrow a black guy mowing your law.

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