06/01/2010 - 0 COMMENTS
Here's my Troy Bilt Cultivator/Edger, I think it's a 2006 model. It gave a couple awkward squeeks and ate the starte rope last fall and now it's time to rip in to it and see what it needs.
One bolt and the bottom seperates from the engine.
I've been in here this far before. The connector pipe that goes in that hole died of stress fracture before.
How do you get that fly-wheel looking thing off? Get a bright light and look way down that hole and you find a small star headed screw. You need a long screw driver like star tool to get it out (the bits concept of the same won't work).
There's the clutch. When the engine rev's enough, that spreads and causes that flywheel to engage and turns the tiller. Turns out you put a crecent wrench on the square sides of that.. a screw driver into the fly wheel and a little 'love' and it comes off. There are markings on it that tell which way to crank on it to get it lose. (standard threading by the way)
The washer goes under it...
Get the red cover off...
this is where things start to look 'cheaply made' or 'under built'...
Series pictures so I can remember how it all goes back together... Yes, I probably will take the laptop down there and scroll the pictures so I don't get done and wonder where the extra's go..
It's hard to see it on the pictures very well, but all these plastic parts are shot.
Uh Oh... that stuff really looks like it's junked. It only gets worse from here. The bottom red part really is a piece of that big shroud we took off. It's possible that the middle red band is melted on to the metal sleve.
that red part originally fit on there.... so we need a new red shroud part.. and all the starter coil stuff.. and as many of the other little parts as makes sense.. go back in as new as possible... and yay.. no reason to clean that red shroud up...
not really sure what this part is... retainer ring or bushing or something.. Everything flywheel on deeper seems good.. now it's time to go try to find the parts.. but.. technically, what tiller is this?
This is all I can find to identify the thing other than my thinking back to what year I bought this thing. I'm guessing it's a 2006 model. I need to convince myself of that, then order the parts. I think the entire assembly is about $45 + sh.. to land in the 50 - 60 dollar range..
