It's been a wild couple weeks. I own a landscaping company and last week my main zero turn mower decided to eat a bearing in one of the pumps. I'm still waiting on parts for that. In the meantime I need to trim some tall hedges so I pull out the Shindaiwa trimmers. Carb is all messed up so I buy a new carb, new fuel lines and set off to get them running. No go! Run for 5-15 seconds and die. I decide that will be project for another day. At this point the garage is a pile of tools, parts and broken crap. To clear my head I fire up the splitter. I still have some ash to split and the logs that are left are big. I put the splitter in the vertical position and start busting logs into chunks. About 20 minutes in I hear a pop and then some weird noises. Shut the splitter down and take a look. It appears I broke the Lovejoy coupler from the pump to engine. Not too worried about the repair, but I have to say I'm scared to touch anything....it might break. I'll swing by TSC today and see if they have the parts. When one thing breaks, lookout, more will follow.
That stinks fortydegnorth! Like My IS said, those things do seem to come in three's. A couple months ago my car was up on jack stands waiting for parts, then my truck decided to strand me at work for an hour or so because of a bad battery connection, and when I finally made it home my wife says "I need you to look at my car". My heart sank thinking I'd have all 3 cars out at once, luckily her problem was just a rear wiper that stopped working.
Sounds like my situation to a "T"!! I've got so many projects piled up, literally stacked all over the place in my shop, and yet here I find myself looking for a Stihl 090 project..... And let's not even mention the "Honey-Do" list.....
Sometimes I'm so far behind, I think I'm winning, so I know how you feel. Two weeks ago it was the water heater, Last week was the tractor battery. This week............ still waiting, I know it's coming.
Coupler came apart pretty easily. The engine side was 7/8" and the pump is 1/2". Instead of the smaller coupler that came on it, I up-sized to the larger one Tractor Supply carries. It barely fits, but it fits. I'm hoping it'll last forever. The one that broke was original and I'd say that splitter is 10-11 years old. Appears the rubber piece wore out a looooong time ago... This is the carnage that came off. I'd say it was spent.
