{"id":3231,"date":"2017-07-07T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2017-07-14T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:22:17","slug":"disassembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/attachments\/ih-attachments\/ih-landscape-rake\/2017\/07\/disassembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Disassembly"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I purchased the rake it had been sitting outside on it’s back. \u00a0The rear wheels were rusted in position and would neither pivot or rotate.<\/p>\n

Note: \u00a0All the pictures below were taken “after the fact.” \u00a0I get in too big of a hurry when I’m disassembling this stuff to stop and take pictures. \u00a0 And, with all the pentrant I use to free stuff up, it gets really too messy to pick up a camera.<\/p>\n

This picture was taken after I’d freed the wheels up, but here’s the position they were stuck in.<\/p>\n

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The first thing I did was soak everything with a 50\/50 mixture of acetone\/automatic transmission fluid that I always use to free rusted objects. \u00a0I removed the two bolts that holds the whole wheel assembly in place so I could support it in my shop vice.<\/p>\n

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After sitting for a while I managed to get the wheel bracket to just move a little bit by tapping it with a hammer. \u00a0Once it moved a little, I kept working it back and forth until it would swing freely. \u00a0The hairpin clip in the top wouldn’t come out so I cut it off flush with the cutoff blade on my angle grinder. \u00a0With the pin out I kept working the bracket back and forth as I pulled it downward and out of the support.<\/p>\n

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Once out I could drive the remains of the hairpin clip out. \u00a0To get the wheel off I had to carefully cut off the cotter pin with my angle grinder and work the wheel back and forth as I pulled it off. \u00a0The Teflon bearing was stuck to the shaft, but the plastic wheel slid off leaving the Teflon bearing. \u00a0(I didn’t get a picture of that.) \u00a0By squeezing the bearing with a vice grip pliers, it would deform just enough to come free from the shaft. \u00a0After squeezing it in a couple places, I managed to work it off the shaft and carefully drive it back into the wheel center.<\/p>\n

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I drove the remaining piece of one of the cotter pins out, but I had to drill the other one. \u00a0It’s soft metal and drilled pretty easily. \u00a0 Both wheels worked freely after a little sanding and cleaning.<\/p>\n

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I reassembled everything and everything worked as it should.<\/p>\n

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As usual, if you have any questions or comments you can contact us through this website.<\/p>\n

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When I purchased the rake it had been sitting outside on it’s back. \u00a0The rear wheels were rusted in position and would neither pivot or rotate. Note: \u00a0All the pictures below were taken “after the fact.” \u00a0I get in too big of a hurry when I’m disassembling this stuff to stop and take pictures. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ih-landscape-rake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lT6g-Q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cubcadetman.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}