moonlight machine
Diamond
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2007
- Location
- marysville ohio
John Deere mower 54" deck. This thing is a bit of a pos but I do run the hell out of it so it has a right to fly apart once in a while. Most common failure is the bearings the blade shafts run on. They are 62032RSJ bearings. When the bearing fails it wipes out the housing as well about half the time. I just replaced the bearings for the second time this summer and had to sleeve one housing as it was toast. I was thinking about turning new housings to fit bigger bearings. This would require some sort of bushing or adaptor to fit the blade shaft. If I just made the same sort of housing with 4 bearings instead of 2 it would take all the same blade shaft bits. Any reason not to run 2 bearings side by side? With 4 bearings per blade shaft housing it should last more than twice as long. Any bearing engineers here want to comment?