Hydro lift handle...new issue

[BajaGTO]

Well, I got the engine installed and running (Big thanks to Duncan10072).

When I was installing my mower deck i pushed too hard on the lift handle, and it bent, at the point where the connecting pin goes thru. Then when I was trying to install a new bolt thru the hole, I broke the lever in half. When it rains it pours.

So, 3 questions...1)where can I find a new handle (Duncan10072 is looking for one for me as well)?

2)how do you attach the handle rod to the 'yoke'? Is that supposed to be a roll pin? the pin that was in mine was a shouldered machine screw with an allen head.

If it is supposed to be a roll pin...how in the heck to you go about pounding that thing in there? Can I just use an appropriate diameter nut and bolt?

3) As I was removing things, I noticed the spool of the hydro control was able to spin. Is that supposed to spin. I have attached a pic of the part I am talking about. It is the shiny piece on top of the control.

[Matt G.]

Get the new-style clamp-on arm (IH-106531-C3, almost $40 new, unfortunately) so you don't have to deal with the roll pin. The valve is supposed to spin like that. If you have a torch and the right size die, you can make a new handle very easily. You might even be able to bend a new one cold, but it'd be much easier with a torch. It's just a piece of cold-rolled steel with a bend and a threaded end. The original is chrome-plated, but you could just paint it if you aren't concerned about correctness.

[cdlong]

I got a new handle for my 1450 from Rich Patton, Patton Acres. He has them made.

[BajaGTO]

Originally Posted by Matt G.

Get the new-style clamp-on arm (IH-106531-C3, almost $40 new, unfortunately) so you don't have to deal with the roll pin. The valve is supposed to spin like that. If you have a torch and the right size die, you can make a new handle very easily. You might even be able to bend a new one cold, but it'd be much easier with a torch. It's just a piece of cold-rolled steel with a bend and a threaded end. The original is chrome-plated, but you could just paint it if you aren't concerned about correctness.

Can you explain how the new clamp on style works? What does it clamp to?

[BajaGTO]

Originally Posted by Matt G.

Get the new-style clamp-on arm (IH-106531-C3, almost $40 new, unfortunately) so you don't have to deal with the roll pin. The valve is supposed to spin like that. If you have a torch and the right size die, you can make a new handle very easily. You might even be able to bend a new one cold, but it'd be much easier with a torch. It's just a piece of cold-rolled steel with a bend and a threaded end. The original is chrome-plated, but you could just paint it if you aren't concerned about correctness.

Just called my local cub dealer...man is he a jerk. Anyway...He shows the part number as IH-135547-C1. Any idea which is the one I need? When I searched for the part number you gave me it showed a dual hydro setup, and I only have one.

When I look at the diagram for 135547 it doesn't appear to go all the way through the tower...it looks like it has a busihng and a snap ring. Man..I am super confused

[Matt G.]

That number your dealer gave you is for the handle itself, not the little arm. The handle goes all the way through to both sides. I think they may have changed this thing again. After the design with the roll pin, there was a clamp-on arm (#4 in picture) that was slotted on the backside, and a bolt was used to clamp it to the handle. I'm not sure what this new thing is that they have. Bushing #8 appears to be NLA. I found one of the new arms on ebay, and there's no slot in it for clamping it on with a bolt, and that bushing and snap ring doesn't really look like it can clamp the arm to the shaft

[BajaGTO]

Originally Posted by Matt G.

That number your dealer gave you is for the handle itself, not the little arm. The handle goes all the way through to both sides. I think they may have changed this thing again. After the design with the roll pin, there was a clamp-on arm (#4 in picture) that was slotted on the backside, and a bolt was used to clamp it to the handle. I'm not sure what this new thing is that they have. Bushing #8 appears to be NLA. I found one of the new arms on ebay, and there's no slot in it for clamping it on with a bolt, and that bushing and snap ring doesn't really look like it can clamp the arm to the shaft

yeah I need item #6. The one that cam off of mine didn't have the bushig nor did it have a snap ring. It looks like #8 and #9 are one piece on mine. And there was an allen head bolt that just fed through a hole in #6 and in #8.

[Matt G.]

You have the oldest version with the roll pin, which is just about impossible to install, from what I've heard. The 1450 I used to have had the clamp-on arm.

[BajaGTO]

I just ordered an arm with the new bolt on style clamp from Patton Acres. I hope that solves my issue. Good thing about that style is that I can supposedly mount it on the left side. That would be nice