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12-10-2014, 03:38 PM
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Bought My 2nd Cub
Looking through Craigslist this morning and saw a Cub mixed in with some other mowers for sale. http://chattanooga.craigslist.org/grd/4798870563.html
It's a 1641 (I think) with a 48 inch deck. It cranks, runs and the blades engage but it's got some serious cobbling done on it. It drove up on the trailer and the trans seemed to work as it should though it was hard to operate with the modified lever. I took some pictures of the problems I saw right away. The plastic has the tits broke off and one hood mounting screw tab is broken but it may be salvageable. The hour meter shows in the 800's. Steering needs to be tightened up. Not sure what the screen door spring is doing. Cannon 
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12-10-2014, 03:54 PM
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From what you said and what I see, the plastic is easily repairable if you DO IT NOW!. Don't wait until the grill breaks off from the mounting point.
Side panel nubs are an easy repair too.
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12-10-2014, 04:42 PM
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Nice find
 I'm always glad to see the Cyclops' saved, I think they are an underappreciated Cub by the masses.
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12-10-2014, 05:03 PM
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No Lew offer, I thought it was cheap enough at $275. There wasn't much room to come down. I could not get it to stay running to unload it, I had to drag it off the trailer with a green mower. It would start run about 10 seconds and quit, maybe out of gas or sucked some bad gas into it earlier. First Vanguard I've ever touched. I did wedge the bypass knob up to move it. Are all the 48 inch GT decks the same?
Cannon
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12-10-2014, 07:52 PM
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Nice score! I saw that ad and thought about calling but I'm out of space at the moment. Plus if I spent $$$ on a GT at Christmas I would be sleeping with the dogs outside.
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12-11-2014, 08:47 AM
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Yep, I saw that one too and it was priced right. That spring looks like he was using it as a brake return spring. The Vangaurds are great engines. Good job on saving it.
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12-11-2014, 09:38 AM
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Nice find. My guess on the spring would be that the brake return spring inside the frame came off/got lost and the PO either didn't realize there is suppose to be a spring in there or couldn't get it to stay in place. I have an 1811 that the return spring came off and I ended up making a couple of tabs to mount it to. One slipped over the pin connecting the rock shaft to the actual brake caliper and one that I bolted to the frame back near the axle using an existing bolt in my frame.
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