Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Firing up my Father's Cub XT1 for the first time in 2020.
This tractor has always been hard starting. Other than that, it runs great. It has a Kohler 7000 Series 25 HP twin cylinder engine, hydrostatic drive, and a 50" cutting deck.
My only dislikes of it (besides that it is classified as a garden tractor) is that it has the "pancake" style engine and is belt driven, it has sealed bearing spindles on the mower deck, and the general design of the deck (I'll get into that in a later video)
Cub Cadet is just a shell of what it used to be, sadly. Supposedly this is a "garden tractor". I'd love to see this run a tiller or plow a furrow lol. It's gotten itself (or, i should say, I've gotten it) stuck a couple of times in the muddy swamp of a backyard we have.
I'll be posting a video in the future of doing some maintenance on this tractor - it's due for and oil and air filter change, as well as sharpening the blades.
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Firing up my Father's Cub XT1 for the first time in 2020.
This tractor has always been hard starting. Other than that, it runs great. It has a Kohler 7000 Series 25 HP twin cylinder engine, hydrostatic drive, and a 50" cutting deck.
My only dislikes of it (besides that it is classified as a garden tractor) is that it has the "pancake" style engine and is belt driven, it has sealed bearing spindles on the mower deck, and the general design of the deck (I'll get into that in a later video)
Cub Cadet is just a shell of what it used to be, sadly. Supposedly this is a "garden tractor". I'd love to see this run a tiller or plow a furrow lol. It's gotten itself (or, i should say, I've gotten it) stuck a couple of times in the muddy swamp of a backyard we have.
I'll be posting a video in the future of doing some maintenance on this tractor - it's due for and oil and air filter change, as well as sharpening the blades.
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![Extracting a Broken [garbage] Pipe Nipple](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8GidubxIixM/mqdefault.jpg "Extracting a Broken [garbage] Pipe Nipple
The process used to extract not only a pipe nipple, but a pipe nipple made of a sintered material, presumable brass or bronze.
The process involved cutting away as much as possible of the damaged nipple using a bolt extractor, since a purpose - made nipple extractor would not fit in the garbage nipple.
The bolt extractor bit into the material of the fitting, however, instead of extracting it, it pulverized the material. I continued this process until I began to bite into the threads of the tank bung with the extractor.
At this point, I began using a 1/4 NPT tap to cut the remaining material out of the original threads. After clearing all of the material, I made a final pass with the tap in order to ensure a clean mating surface for the new STEEL pipe nipple.
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