It is a genuine OEM sourced replacement muffler with a welded exhaust pipe, it is commonly installed on the gas-powered lawn and garden equipment. Its purpose is to soften the noise coming from the en...
Removed battery, then battery hanger brackets. Removed the tension spring from under side of seat. That was a little tuff to do. put a long phillips screw driver through transmission pulley. put a 7/8 box wrench on pulley nut and removed it. took old belt off and installed new one. Reversed order of removal. Getting the tension spring back into the bracket hole was a little tricky. I used a pair of long needle nose pliers to re install the spring. cut my yard and I'm a happy camper !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We took our 30 plus year mixer apart. I removed the old grease. There was some crumbly looking grease in the main housing gear section where the nylon gear is located. It looked like it had flour mixed in it. Not certain. Removed as best possible all old grease and applied 6 oz. of new Benalene grease to all of the gears. Now it does not make the slight howl sound.
