OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums General Discussion Forum OutdoorKing Showcase yamaha superswift

hi all, i have a superswift with a yamaha motor i got going today.it runs pretty good but the throttle shaft has a fair bit of wear and it idles a bit rough.the disc has a piece broken out of it and cracked,not worth repairing so i borrowed one of my other big bob super swift to try it out,it has a 4.5 briggs on it.i havent seen a yamah powered one before and was wondering if somone could tell me a bit about them. i tried to post some pics of it but i have stuffed up somewhere again cheers micka

micka post in the questions on mowers area and we will see if we can get some information together on the motor, all I have to do is find it scan and upload to the parts list and manuals area.

I have a vulcan mower with the same blade plate, could you really mount 8 blades on it?

I reckon it would chop it up really finely as mulch. Well maybe it would.

Re Micka and the Yamaha engine They are areally great engine, They have a separate oil bath for the bottom bearing etc. Very good set up there. As you well know the bottom end of the cranksaht really does get a lot of load on it and Yamaha have really taken care of this .
I sold a lot of these to farmers for mowing irrigation channels and they were a top mower. The chassis were not much good though but having said that the makers would sell you just a chassis and you could replace the chassis . I dont know if they still sell the chassis by itself but I did see csome Big Bob type of mower in a shop here the other day and I see they have re-inforced the handle with a really good stay on the lower handles Cheers Joe

By the way....... the bottom oil reservoir holds 100 cc of oil Joe

Re the 8 blades ..........The holes in that particular cutter disc is aUniversal type. Theholes .........some are square to take Turner type bolts and some are eliptical to tatake Victa and from memory there are D shpes as well for Rover or Pace D type bolts I saw some discs this morning while looking for a Vict 9B . but I did not really look at them closely. Came across some good 9c plates though and will be putting on Ebay maybe tomorrow Cheers Joe .

thanks for that bit of info joe. i cut the neibours block the other day and was impressed with the power it has.i will keep an eye out on ebay.i was going to get rid of this mower but its a real good worker so i rekon its got to come in handy one day.
jeez weve all heard that before havnt we, cheers micka