How To Repair
2016 Husqvarna YTH185472 Riding Lawn Mower

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Introduction

This web page contains a narrative log and pictorial essay to maintain a mower.  For now, just a single downloadable document, not yet turned into a real webpage.  Only the first link below works to download a Word document.

Disable Seat Switch

Fuel Pressure
Suspension Bumper
Air Conditioner Compressor

Testimonies

1/14/2011 RN from Minneapolis, MN wrote, "Thank You"

Seat Switch

The first problem I worked on was let the mower run when I get off teh seat.

Next

I was crawling around the van doing fuel related work and noticed a rubber bumper that had fallen off.  Turns out this is the bumper that mounts on top of the wheel control arm A-frame.  The rubber had separated from the mounting bolt and I was able to unscrew the nut only with a long ratchet arm.  After removing the nut, I hammered the bolt out using a piece of aluminum to keep the bolt from being damaged.  I found a new one at Advanced Auto parts for $9. 

Sold eventually

I sold this vehicle in the future. 

Financial Finale:

After the the costs incurred above, I began to wonder what the vehicles actually cost me and if it's worth my time to fix them.  I've kept mileage and repair and insurance data for years and spent some time with a spreadsheet program to reduce this to meaningful data.  The answer has two parts:

1) I work on cars because I want to understand them and see preventative issues and manage the ownership of the vehicle rather than letting it manage me by breaking unexpectedly. This management process probably saves money.

2) The big dollar issue, however, is depreciation cost.  You can stop depreciation cost by being comfortable with older vehicles and being willing to handle the repair costs.  This would happen even if you preventively did nothing.  To replace the capability of this older van with a 2-year old model would cost about $30,000.  Figure if you keep a vehicle for 10 years, that's $125 month in depreciation.

Click on the little graph here to download a pdf document.




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