[super1914]

So last night at about 10 pm we rolled into the driveway. I had to keep her on the trailer until this morning since I didn't want to disturb the neighbors. I put a new battery in it and it popped right off. Took it for a little spin around the yard and brought it back to the shed for a good bath. I pressure washed 20 years worth of grease and grime off of her and found some minor problems that thanks to all of you, I was able to fix/tune up pretty quickly. When I engaged the mower it was discharging the battery so I adjusted the air gap and it appears to have fixed that problem. I pulled off all of the engine shrouds and washed down all of the fins on the motor and whatever else I could. I found the starter wire was sitting kind of weird so i gave it a bump and it fell right off! Got that fixed up pretty quickly. Unfortunately the throttle cable snapped while I was messing around. Not a big deal since it was some after market thing that was thrown on there. I will be running to the cub dealer tomorrow to order one along with a rear end gasket. Still have to remove the tunnel plate and fenders to clean off the tranny...hope to get to that this week.

One thing that I found was that the right side rear wheel was covered in dirt which appeared to be adhered by a thin layer of oil. I am assuming that it is HyTran, but I don"t know where it is coming from....I am not low on fluid and it has not been topped off for many years according to my Dad so at least whatever is leaking....it isn't too fast. I hope to be able to post some pics tomorrow if I get some time. Too dark right now!