This machine came to me with issues. Some small, some well… oily. All of them repairable, but with parts availability & budgets tight I thought I’d do what most anyone else would do. Try repairing a cracked engine block before having to replace said block. Nothing to lose right?
Today’s patient is a John Deere LX176 with a Kawasaki 14hp air cooled, aluminum block engine. The crack in the upper crankcase is probably due to the lower crankcase bolts being loose. They’ve been lock-tite slobbered & torqued.
In this video I’ll show you how I drilled the end of the crack to prevent it from spreading & then chamfered a groove along the crack to provide good adhesion for the J. B. Weld Kwik-Set epoxy. I’ll cover the tools used in the project & step-by-step what I did (and why) to fix the crack in the block.
The two-part epoxy bond was left overnight to cure & then we test for leaks. Fixed!! Is this engine in rough shape? Yes. Will it be replaced? Probably. But this repair bought me some valuable time to acquire a plan & parts. So we’re back to mowing & its mission accomplished.
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Filmed & edited by Philip West @FlannelPhilip
Music used with permission by Epidemic Sound
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