What's an acceptable hour life for a 2166

[skydog]

Mine's 12 yrs old next May and has 225 hrs on it. I've maintained it well as far as lube cycles, sharp blades, etc.. Lately it just seems like it's showing it's age. I should have the deck set up by the dealer; just to get that back on par.

[CADplans]

Originally Posted by skydog

Mine's 12 yrs old next May and has 225 hrs on it. I've maintained it well as far as lube cycles, sharp blades, etc.. Lately it just seems like it's showing it's age. I should have the deck set up by the dealer; just to get that back on par.

Blasphemy!! You can do anything the dealer can do! There is nothing your friends here at OCC can not help you through,

IF,

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Your statement of 12 years, is that since a rebuild? 1200s' were last made in 1980.

Or is it a different model?

[_DX3_]

Originally Posted by CADplans

Blasphemy!! You can do anything the dealer can do! There is nothing your friends here at OCC can not help you through,

IF,

We Get Photos!!!




Your statement of 12 years, is that since a rebuild? 1200s' were last made in 1980.

Or is it a different model?

It's a 2166, he revised his first post.

[CADplans]

I just looked up the tractor at tractordata.

They state 100 hour oil change intervals.

If that was followed, yea, the engine is gone.



My oil change intervals for air cooled engines are;

10-12 hours for splash lube (Kohler K engines)

25 hours for engines with a filter.

At that # of hours, I still worry if the grass is dry and dusty!! IMHO

[Vince_o]

Sky

Thats just a new version of a good old mower. It should last you much longer than 12 yrs. This said, I dont have a clue on what you or someone else has done with it. Its was like a 2500 or 3000$ machine, so its high quality.

I do my filtered machines every 50 hrs, I know what the book says, but the book aint looking at this red dusty clay either. My K series I do 2 times a year. Ill put around 50 hrs on my cubs a year, according to the hour meter.

At our shop we will look over the machine and give you a quote on it for 30 bucks. Il do a leak down test on the eng for 45 bucks and let you know if you have any ware on the cylinders.

Most times when I do this most people will let me just go a head and fix it, some will tell me to order the parts for them and they will fix it them selves. Id rather fix it cause the shop gets the labor, but the parts dept is stil making us money by the parts sale. And the cust is happy, MOST TIMES , and come back or bring us more.

For us this is our big off season, we dont get much for snow blowers and with out a major ice storm no gen sets or many saws to work on. All the fire wood guys know how to fix there own stuff. I need the happy home owers that bend bars!

[Merk]

I have an off topic orange tractor with 1020 hours on it. It was new in 1996. I expect to put anothe 1000 hours on it without any major problems. You may have to do some fine tuning to your Cub. That Cub should be good for another 10 years with no major problems with a little TLC.

[skydog]

I've changed the oil 2X a year and the trans fluid/filter twice. I've always lubed it. This year the crescent shaped steering gear needed replaced. The carb needed rebuilt, and the deck is badly out of whack. The choke rods fell off the carb but nothing major. I just have so much other stuff to do first!

[alsparl]

Skydog, If you do not mind us inquiring, what are some of the symptoms when you say "showing its age?"

Remembering my days at the dealer, less than 250 hrs on a 2166. I experienced selling 2 different 2166 machines to 2 retired gentlemen in the town we lived in. Both had their own "retired" moving businesses and between the two of them, they took care of all the "older folks" in the town. And yes, I was a beneficary of some of the good cooking from the little old ladies as well. It was a great system they had. I was around long enough to trade both of those in with over 800 hrs a piece on them. Neither had any dealer work done on them, only routine maintenance performed by their owners throughout the 3 year ownership.

I personally am a big fan of the 2166 model and for being a single cyl machine, it has a lot of guts. Being a shaft drive helps a lot to. If your concern is the deck, take time over the winter and review the rear deck hangers and the front pull rod for the deck. If the holes are "ovalled out" instead of being round, that may be where some adjustment could be found. If you feel those items need to be replaced, go for it. Its always better to do it at your own pace than have someone tell you you need those items when they have your machine apart on the dealer/shop floor. Otherwise, replacing the front and rear deck rollers, that should be all it needs to "tighten up" the deck.

Let us know as I personally think your 2166 is just getting broke in, just MHO.

[skydog]

yes, mostly it's the deck being out of whack. I have a lot of retaining walls, and bed borders to mow around and it's taken it's share of bumps. The discharge boot is gnawed away from frequent encounters with the chute/blades. I will spend some time this off season and see what I can do on my own with the help of this good forum. Sure beats loading it up and taking it in to the dealer. Thanks for the offers of help, I'll need it.

[Vince_o]

Sky

I just did some work on this tranny yesterday in the same tractor, or it was a 2186, I cant keep it all straight. Any way it stopped moving, I mean just stopped dead. It runs like a top!


We had this 2186 come in yesterday that just stopped moving. I took the fenders off all the linkage was moving fine, but still couldnt get the pump to pump. One of the first things I found when I looked at the machine, I look here first all the time, is that the tranny dip stick was loose. So after pulling the pump off, everything on the splines looked good. So into the pump I go. I will say these trally intmadate me for some reason. I pulled the gear off the shaft, all looked good. So I pulled the spring and ball out of the pump, pice of wood in the oil galley! Pulled everything else apart, found just a bit of brass, machine has like 600 hrs on it, and I put it back togeather after we couldnt find anything that says, this is why your not turning the wheels. After that the wheels turned just fine, so Im guessing it was that little piece of wood in the galley.