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Cub Cadet Zero Engine Swap: Kohler To Briggs - with Taryl
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Junior huh get out there and blow that
snow before customers start showing up
what me what are you doing I got these
cats to watch so it's freezing out there
pop can't you find somebody else to do
it I'll do it down uncle Andy I love
snow and I love clean okay there's the
shovel now get out there he'll be
shoveling out there for a month of that
pace yeah you're right Junior
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I love the nightlife I love the
nightlife there
maybe I should want to use our snow
balls you think that's a good idea pop
the guy couldn't even pull peel of a
boot if the directions were on the hill
I'll show a lot of work it it's not that
hard he always wants to learn yeah
have you met Andy this guy can screw up
a cup of coffee
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it'll be faster and easier to clean the
snow with this machine you really think
so dill
Oh tearing it up bust it plus it'll be
easier on your back so the first thing
you're gonna want to do is put the key
in that goes right here this is the key
write it down yeah that's the key oh
well I guess we'll just see my what's
there to say about it's the key is this
the volume control it's not about volume
control that fit show this isn't a
stereo all right I'll just start the
thing then you can take it from there
it's pretty subtle operate you push this
lever down and it makes it flow snow you
push this lever down and it makes it dry
simple or not okay
piece of cake just like mama used to
make
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Aerodactyl air in today's how-to video
is going to be on repowering this year
scrub cadet zero turn that's got a
throne ride in the motor this color
command threw a ride on one side so
we're going to repower it with this here
Briggs & Stratton 23 horse in tech motor
now I know you're all probably saying oh
why don't you just fix the motor that's
on it Terrell show us how to fix the
motor that's outing why are you taking
that good motor get command and
repowering it with that Briggs motor of
a lesser motor because it all boils down
to cost
this isn't my mower this a customer's
mower he makes the decision we gave him
the option
we gave him a price on a new motor we
gave him a price on what it could
possibly cost to fix the motor that's in
it depending on how much damage and we
gave them the price on what it was gonna
cost to repower with a used engine now I
would have liked to put a used coal or
command 23 on there but I don't have any
we got to go with what I got and I ain't
got one so I gave him a price for that
and he's fine with it so we're gonna
we're gonna put that motor on there and
I'm gonna show you what it takes when
you use one brand engine you gotta swap
it out with another one because it just
doesn't bolt right in there's things you
got to keep in mind alright so if you're
gonna repower something with a different
engine I'm gonna tell you what you gotta
know first before you even just go grab
an engine and just try to stick it on
there first thing crankshaft diameter
and length but it's got to be the same
as the other motor another thing is the
musket is the muskan gonna work from the
donor engine you're gonna put on there
and if it doesn't can you make it work
do you have the skill level to make it
work a third thing is your cable or your
cables long enough do you have a
separate choke in a separate throttle do
you have the throttle and choke all in
one so those are things you got to keep
in mind and your electrical system is
the motor you're using got a big enough
alternator on it if it's got an electric
field clutch because you got to make
sure you got enough amperage ears in the
engine from a say a cheap lawnmower that
doesn't have an electric clutch chances
are it's got a low amperage alternator
on it and it's not going to be able to
charge the battery and run that electric
PTO clutch so you got to keep all these
things in mind when you're doing these
swaps swamps swap so first thing we're
going to do is remove the engine first
thing I'm going to do is disconnect the
battery on the positive side and I'll
disconnect the cable and as you can see
this one's all bent up choke cable
obviously wasn't working that well might
have to replace that
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disconnect the fuel line
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alright let's disconnect all the wiring
got a plug here and it looks like we've
got a wire going to one of the engine
mounts got a zip tie here cut loose
we've got a fuse let's just tie it in
with the battery that fuse that's coming
off the charge circuit okay now have to
get underneath and take the electric
clutch off alright this one's got a
lever to release the tension on the belt
that goes to the clock okay I release
the lever but of course this is frozen
this is supposed to move this arm lack
of maintenance kind of grease fitting on
it
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if I could pull on it alright alright
I'm gonna try to loosen this nut that's
gonna have to come apart here we go
and be fixed I know just shooting some
grease in it isn't gonna do the trick
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alright maybe I can get the belt off now
see if I can walk it off what up getting
my fingers smashed in there squeeze on
it get some more
well put a screwdriver in there before
I'll knock it off the jack stands I
don't even think I don't think this is
the right vowel there we go man almost
knocked it off the Jetsons next thing
God disconnect the wire there's a little
locking tab on there I already bent it
out of the way sometimes these things
are real hard to get apart so be careful
you don't rip the wires out all right
that one came out pretty easy all right
now I'll get a impact and zip that bolt
out 5/8 socket should be I'm gonna take
all the washers off this bolt and then
I'm gonna stick it back in there because
I'm probably gonna have to air hammer at
all make sure you put a lot of tension
on that air hammer to try to get a divot
I might have a bolt that Authority got a
divot in it if this doesn't work yeah
let me get my bolt I got a bunch of
different lengths of these 7/16 fine
thread bolts with a divot in it already
helps hold that air hammer bit in there
keep them from jumping off on you there
we go she's easy to fire came right off
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alright now we got to get the pump belt
off or drag belt and for that it looks
like it's got a 3/8 ratchet so I can use
the ratchet to release the tension old
oh that's pretty nice for once well I
guess I lost my wrench now because it's
stuck in there that's alright I'll just
go to store and buy another one all
right now we gotta undo the floor engine
mounting bolts and in this case they
look like they're half-inch
there's a nut on the other side
sometimes yourself tapper Din there
sometimes they got a nut on the other
side go ahead and remove all four and we
should be able to pull motor off now
when removing an Imagine bolts in this
case where it's got another on the other
side it's a lot easier if you got
somebody to help you up on top hold on a
wrench to get the nut off I had mr.
cameraman now I got it
take the bumpkin off because it goes
through these big holes well I'll get in
there with a wrench and remove the muck
in in this case big lawnmower engines
there are lifting points here's one here
and here's one here just in case you
might have seen them and go what the
heck are at em for that's so you can
lift it off with an engine lift you know
like you use for a car you could use one
case you got a bad back or but you don't
have one then you know two people works
or if you're a big burly man you just
lift it off well you know some people
got bad backs and so all of them have a
lifting point
now most mower manufacturers will put a
bunch of different holes in there to fit
a bunch of different engines because a
lot of times you'll have engine options
or you know they'll make it where it'll
fit a Briggs and a crow word so I'm
going to go ahead and clean this up a
little bit then we'll drop that Briggs
down in there
I'm gonna drop that in the breeze now
that spring is the one that's always got
the bad sub gasket so I already went
ahead and replace the sump gasket this
one's leaking on this one all right
looks like the holes line up we're
caught on something ain't sittin totally
flat what are we calling out here oh
okay I think I see we're gonna have to
do a little mana case in here and I see
where it's hitting these muskan pipes
are hitting so I just got to kind of
notch this out a little I'll have to
mark these notch it
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so I got to thinking before I started a
monocaine on this frame here I thought
oh I wonder how close this crawler
muffler is the fit 9 that Briggs motor
so I took the pipe off and I checked it
and the spacing is the same but it's
just off a little bit and I thought if I
use that Briggs bumpkin you know I'm
gonna have to mop that in here and then
I'm gonna have to make a mount for it so
that's a lot of extra work that I don't
want to do it'd be easier if I just took
my oxygen and the feather mean torch and
heat it up these tubes and just tweak
them up a little bit so I'll pull the
motor back off and I'll show you how
close we are to using this other musket
so let's see it we're pretty close so I
think if I just heat up these tubes and
tweak them over a little bit on each
side I could probably get it to fit
we're smoking like Smoky Mountain
let's see how close we are all right
looks like the plans
it's got to be twisted this way a little
to get the ball holes aligned up
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oh ho all right that one's pretty good
now I got to tweak this one out
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all right this side lines up I'm gonna
go ahead put a couple of bolts in there
all right put them bolts in let me tweak
it a little more
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little bit water
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okay now I gotta twist this flange a
little bit we're real close
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don't go this way let me put it in like
this
then I'll put my channel locks on it and
then I gotta go down don't want to go
the wrong way
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looks pretty good put some bolts in it
there it is little tweaking with the
torch fits like a glove like this glove
see how this glove fixed that's how that
bumpkin fits like a glove so that was a
lot easier than cutting and grinding and
making brackets we just reuse the old
muskan but there's one other person
that's got to come out here and
double-check that make sure that it's
it's okay
alright here she is inspector Watkins
inspect this Lufkin okay okay don't look
all right to you what's that gonna put
new gaskets on it yeah I'm gonna put a
new gasket Batman so what do you think I
don't look [ __ ] look okay just pass
your test
looks like it passed inspector muffins
rigorous inspection now I see blades
over there inspecting the mower deck all
right now we got to try to get this
pulley off hopefully it'll come off a
lot of times they won't
now if it didn't come off we were gonna
did my heat inquest trick where I when I
heated it up cherry red and then
hammered it with the garden hose to cool
it off real fast and then it would have
walked right off so now we can stick
this on the and the Briggs engine
now this bridgewater was threaded so we
don't have to mess around with those
through bolts and trying to get nuts on
the backside so that'll make it easy we
could just bolt it right in the only
thing is the holes end up the holes in
here we're gonna have to open them all
with that crawler engine this is how
they ground it everything like this
through the motor and I don't like that
because sometimes these engine bolts
loosen up and we've had mowers come in
because they wouldn't start because this
ground wire was loose because one of the
engine bolts loosened up and then
they're like scratching their head they
go this thing was working fine now I'll
start all because the engine bolt
loosened up so before I drop the motor
in I'm gonna drill and tap a couple of
holes and ground these wires right to
the frame not to the engine
alright I'm gonna use self-tapping
screws will hold these down I'm going to
use a 5/16 elf tapper or the battery
cable which I use a seventeen sixty
fourths drill bit for that and then for
this other one I'm gonna use a quarter
inch self tapper and I sprayed a little
lubricant out of threads too and I moved
them to the outside as far as I could so
in case you have to get to them you can
get tool now let's drop the motor out
alright we got the motor all bolted on
nice and tight what's kind of funny
don't it the Husqvarna out of scrub
today I hope they're not going to be
fighting yeah I guess we're gonna call
it a scrub kvarner alright so now we'll
put the electric clutch back on these
clutches sometimes you struggle with
them to get them to line up so I like to
grind a little flats on the four edges a
little chamfer or a little radius
whatever you want to call it and then
put some never sees on the shaft so you
can get this thing off and then get her
lined up
give it a little Wiggles worth times you
gotta wiggle it just a little bit wiggle
it just a little bit to get it to go oh
and then we'll take the wrong I know
they recommend you
torkoal you could torque them if you
want but that little 3/8 in fact that
that gets it tighten up now when we took
this apart they had the wire on the
outside of this tube and it was kind of
tight it was putting a lot of tension on
these wires and I didn't like that so
I'm gonna run it to the inside and I'm
gonna put a zip tie on here to hold it
up out of the way I've got the musket on
now I need to run a longer piece of hose
to the fuel pump which is no big deal
and then this is our throttle cable and
that's going to go into here from the
bottom and if you notice it's got
another hole up here where you can come
in from this way on the bridge now this
doesn't look like it was the original
choke cable it's pretty lightweight so
and plus it's not gonna it's not gonna
reach we have to come in from this side
for the choke so I have a 8 foot
Universal choke cable that I'm going to
use I'm gonna cut down and use so we'll
just take this off and run a new one
universal choke cable I stopped in case
you want the part number 60 - 122 that
way I don't have to stop all these
different choke cables for all these
different mowers I just got this one and
then I can just cut it the length
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so I'll figure my line then I'll mark it
caps over here then you want to pull the
inner water all the way out or most of
the way out and I'll come in where I
marked it down the water back
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I whipped mr. cameraman
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not at all nicely I'm gonna use this
zipped I want to go under this green
ground wire I did my whip mr. cameraman
with the cable all right so the knobs
all the way in like this all the way
back so that's gonna be right there and
then we'll leave it a little bit long
and it gets us off one of these
handy-dandy Z benders stick it in bend
it turn it bend it up and there's your Z
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all right we got joke
now we got a wire now we're getting to
the wiring part as you can see this
cruller starter it's got some lloyd
piggybacked on the starter so we're
gonna have to add a solenoid because the
brick starter uses a separate solenoid
but we want this battery cable so I'm
going to take that battery cable off
I've got the solenoid mounted it's a
three post solenoid now scrub cadet had
a place to mount the solenoid over here
probably for a different engine probably
Briggs but it was so hard to get at I
moved it over here and then I went to
the Husqvarna donor tractor and took
this cable off and then this was the
cable from the crawler which originally
had this fused wire bolted to the
battery then I went to the donor
Husqvarna donor tractor took this plug
off that went to the set of Briggs motor
because we need to use this so it makes
it easier to connect stuff and then this
is the connector from the crawler engine
that went into the main harness on the
scrub cadet so I cut that off so off of
here we're only going to use two wires
we're going to use this blue wire and
it's black wire is to kill wire this was
for the headlights on the Husqvarna and
then on this connector with all these
wires we're gonna use three wires we're
gonna use this blue wire which goes to
the solenoid this is our red power wire
and this is our kill wire to kill the
motor and then I'm gonna clean this plug
up take these wires out
and make it look nice but for now I'm
just gonna show you this way I already
crimp the connector on here order
solenoid now we're gonna go over to the
crawler engine because you're probably
curious to know what all these other
wires so I cut the harness the shrink
wrap that was on the wires I cut that
off so you can see it a little better so
this blue wire was the trigger wire or
the solenoid that's why I've got that on
there for our solenoid this red wire
went to here to the battery so that's
our main power wire and then this yellow
wire these two yellow wires were for
some kind of other application because
they weren't plugged into anything and
then the same with this white wire
that's why we have two white wires
that's a like a auxilary kill wire for
another application this here's our
white wire that goes to the coil goes
through here
and angle this goes to the other coil
and then this red wire these two red
wires here with the diodes they went to
this other connector which looks for
some other option and fuel shutoff
solenoid that's on the carburettor
now diodes are basically check valves
electrical check valves they only let
current flow one way and not bad so for
some reason crawlers got these wired
into that they only want to current the
flow one way so that will help to know
where all these wires go when you're
trying to rewire a motor so you can keep
the old motor so you can figure
here's the wires from Briggs
now this gray wire that goes to the fuel
shutoff solenoid that's on the
carburettor this black wire is the
engine kill wire this red wire is the
wire that's coming from the voltage
regulator on the other side and then
there's a jumper which is going to jump
the power over for the headlight and
then that red wire comes through here to
jump power to that cell annoyed and then
this is the wire the power wire off the
tractor so I just got some wire nuts
here we're just gonna wire this up real
quick to show you I'll plug that back in
plug the blue wire onto the solenoid and
then we're gonna take this black wire to
the white wire because that's our kill
I'll just use these temporary wire nuts
and then the blue wire we're gonna
connect to this red wire all right
there's our blue wire look to our
solenoid here's our blue wire off the
Briggs motor going to the red wire and
then there's that black wire with the
white tracer going to the white wire on
that plug from the krohler engine that's
the kill wire engine kill
alright I'm gonna test the pto make sure
the clutch is working so I'm gonna turn
it one klick on and when I pull this you
should be able to hear the electric
clutch here alright now I still don't
have the plucked off the blades because
I gotta fix that arm under there it's
all rusty alright so let's start it and
then check our voltage make sure it's
charging the battery
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don't be an apple not only gonna do is
clean up them wires make it look nice
you know I'll remove all these wires and
I'll make chopper connections and then
hook up the the deck boots that are this
is the first time that Husqvarna and Cub
Cadet have worked together they're
getting along just fine right now so
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always there's your dinner on this scrub
kvarner
or whatever you want to call it sounds
like he's doing okay out there Junior
he's racking up snowblower and our shot
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my gloves got stuck underneath these
levels I just couldn't keep up when you
hit the gas this thing really golf's
Andy I think your snow blowing days are
over
oh oh come on Taylor I was just starting
to get things oh great thanks a lot Andy
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