Saturday 7-11 Lawn Mower Repair

It's hot!!!!

We had another 100 degree day. It got up to 104 degrees at our house.

We started the day out by working on the lawn mower. We have a Honda lawn mower that was given to us by a friend. We don't know exactly how old it is but it is probably about 20 years old, we have had it for about 13 years. It has been terrific. Lately every once in awhile the transmission does not go into gear correctly and it has been getting more frequent. Honda claims the transmission fluid never needs service but in doing some reading Larry found a number of people who had similar problems to ours and changing the fluid corrected the problem. However, since Honda feels it does not need service they did not design it to be serviced. To change the fluid you have to remove the transmission. We worked on this all morning and still are not done.

Larry had to take the back of the lawn mower completely apart. He started by draining the engine oil and gas. Then we lifted the mower onto our work table and turned it upside down. Larry removed the rear wheels and the height adjusters. Before removing the adjustment pieces Larry took pictures of each wheel to make sure he could put them back together. He had to be careful because the piece are designed to fit the left side or the right side. Then he disconnect the drive shaft. He drained the fluid into a bucket, refilled the transmission and then blead and refilled it again. Now it's ready to be put back together. He also discovered the rear wheel bearing are worn out so he will have to order those. It was getting hot outside so we called it a day.

Lawn Mower

The drive assembly

The lawn mower without the rear wheels

Removing the drive shaft

After lunch I did my daily challenges and The Event: Easy Street Mini of 10 games. It took me 37 minutes and 40 seconds, which put me in 28th place in my group. While I did my computer games Larry read.

We attended a Virtual A2/C1 Square Dance, that was hosted by the Gay Callers Association (GCA). The event schedule was 1:00 to 2:30 Mainstream/Plus and 2:30 to 4:00 A2/C1 Dance. We attended the A2/C1 Dance. The dance alternated A2 and C1 with a different caller each tip. We danced to Kris Jensen, Ett McAtee and Michael Levy. While we were dancing to Michael we started having internet problems, our internet connections would go up and down. We fought the internet for about a half hour before giving up.

For dinner I barbecued pork ribs and they came out good. We streamed our YouTube videos via our Mobley hotspot because our internet was still giving us problems. We danced for an hour to a Johnny Preston two couple A2 tape, we did very well. Then we watched Hildalgo, which was one of our dvds. Then I finished watching the third season of Line of Duty. I did 26,000 steps.