A bloke dropped this Deutscher off a couple of days ago wanting me to have a look at it. It obviously hasn't been used for a lot of years, the gearshift was all rusted solid but with a bit of struggling and an angle grinder and a bit of redesign of the mechanism it all works as it should. Now to see if the motor will run, looks like it has done a lot of work and was a replacement motor at some stage as it is a Chinese OHV motor. My question is does anybody know what model Deutscher it is As it looks about 22 inch I'm guessing it would be a model F because I believe the Model G is a 26 inch cut. Anybody have any thoughts?
Thanks Max That looks like it and somebody in the last 50 years has put the zero turn front on it. Gearbox is selecting forward and neutral fine now so it should work fine even if I have to put a new motor on it. Looks like to replace the drive belt you have to take the left wheel off so you can remove the pulley ,put the belt on the pulley and then refit the pulley because there is only a couple of mm between the edge of the pulley and the axle As long as the gearbox holds up this machine could go on for another 100 years with just some general maintenance
This Deutscher had had E10 fuel in it, so tank is rusted and carby stuffed. Luckily I have another tank here and put a new carby on it and it fired up. Bit of tweeking on the governor and it settled down. . Great stuff this E10, I don't know how the world survived without it
