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Originally Posted by zippy1
What Mike said. You are in "cub central", and parts for your tractor should be plentiful. 
I think, you are over thinking the whole 129 thing. Get the rebuilt engine, install it, then don't worry about the other things going bad. "IF" they do, and again, as Mike mentioned, we're here to help you fix your 129.
BUT, you have to commit, not this back and forth, thread after thread stuff. We wouldn't be here as a group, if these tractors weren't worth the time, and energy, and yes, money fixing, and keeping them operating. It is your choice, but as I said, YOU HAVE TO COMMIT, we can't make the decision for you.
Chit, or get off the pot...  |
I truly do appreciate all these sentiments and encouragement and really hate to keep dragging all of you into this. I don't mean to, and promised myself to not mutate a thread merely intended to ask about finding parts back into the same old diatribe! As to the highlighted part - the deck sort of already
has gone bad - Jon kind of affirmed this - so I'm trying to mentally project myself into the place of having already fixed the cub's engine problem but now am looking at the next step - which logically would be to do something about the deck. As to the trans, I'm caught between everyone here telling me that there is a strong likelihood that the thing will never wear out (I really want to believe this..but yet is it likely?) vs. others (including my IH parts dealer) telling me that at some point it probably will fail. In the latter case, my disadvantage - as has been noted and recognized clearly enough around here - is my lack of sufficient mechanical knowledge and experience to tackle a large repair job, which I assume the trans issue would be. Any 'used' part is always a roll of the dice as far as that goes - especially with something like a transmission. Kind of ironically, however, until the engine went down, I never really worried about the trans going bad at all!! Sooooo...THAT being said, maybe my mental projection is all wrong and that if I would put the engine in, that same (non-worried) frame of mind may resurface and I'll go merrily on my way again. The deck, however, IS a different issue. That needs attention and probably sooner rather than later. Can't see putting new spindles into a shell that's beginning to rust. Thanks again to ALL! I do agree..chit or get off the old pot (as the saying goes!) In the meantime, I have visited 3 dealers and looked at 3 different tractor brands. Wondering if the option of fixing the Cub AND also buying a new tractor might not be a bad idea? (A bit more garage space to accommodate this option would help sway me more in that direction). It has been suggested to me to not get rid of the Cub even if I DO buy something new. Another suggestion has been to keep the Cub as the 'old war horse' and use it for such jobs as I may not want to take a spanking new machine (with a lovely plastic hood..lol) into. I have one of those rough-and-tumble mowing jobs, by the way, which is that over the past 4 years I've been mowing paths in the woods adjacent to our property (LONG story)...some of that terrain is pretty rough and uneven, and I wind up running the edge of the deck over pretty tough weeds, etc.