Originally Posted by grumpy
Thanks for the update, Nick. Well at least it is a Stockman, even if not a 4000. Is this the correct manual?
http://www.coxmowers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/17-8002G-8004F-8004K-Stockman-Series-2.pdf

I have only heard good reports on the Cox staff previously, so your comments fit in well with the others.

Yeah not a 4000 and no way 8 YO! More like 18. However it turns out that the troubles are minor and the wqorst thing may be a $130 clutch driver cone. The drive clutches are sup[posed to be no more than one shop rule's thickness from the cone and they must be 1/2"! Am going to deglaze and adjust the clitch plates and cone and see what happens.

The chain adjuster is just a spring....I may even have lost it working here, with lots of large gumnuts (marrti "honky nuts") to jam up the works. If it happens again I will have to create a guard. That means I will definiteky have to get that )*&(@W*& wheel off.

Nick