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I bought an old John Deere 522 (Simplicity 555), bought an operators manual off of Ebay and read up on the machine. This machine needs a little help, I have to replace the impeller pulley. I read in the book about the fluids for the Peerless 3 speed trans and the impeller gearbox. It said to check the fluids, remove the pipe plugs and so on. They were both low so I topped them off with 80W gear oil which is what the book called for. Shortly after, there was gear oil everywhere. I took the trans apart and apparently Bentonite was added at one point. Right now, I'm draining the gear oil from the trans, my question is, will mixing the two possibly ruin the gears and should I clean out the trans and start fresh? thx, chuck

trouts, you may not have sufficient line pressure to make the tool work properly . i've never used one on a small motor but testing car engines you set the pressure to 90psi, spin the engine to close the valves sand hope to see a drop of 10% or less.

hi, while taking apart my old john deere 522 (simplicity 555) snowblower  i noticed that one of the auger blades was pretty badly bent. Any recommendations on how to straighten it ? thx, chuck

thanks, i appreciate it.

hi, i recently purchased an old john deere 522 snowblower. i noticed that the impeller pulley has about 3/8 of runout when i engaged it. i removed it and checked for possible cracks buy found none. i assume that it just got bent somehow. i'd like to replace it if anyone could possibly steer me to a supplier. apparently, because of it's age john deere doesn't  sell the part anymore. thx, chuck