10 SECOND INSTALLATION AND MEASURING UP TIPS!
Measuring UP! Does this product fit my lawn mower? Fits 99.3% of mowers, quick double check method. Insure axle diameter is 1/2″. The Spike and Pin lawn aerators fit exactly the same. The wheels come with a sintered brass bushing oiled and greasable for long life and 5 washers.
Your Aerator Bushing and Washer Placement Position.
Includes 1 small washer and 4 larger spacing washers, 1 Bronze bushing. You will need to use your threaded nut that holds on the standard wheel. Toro mowers have a reversed axle design, although the same principles apply. Axle diameter should measure 1/2″. and 1-3/16″ plus in length.
Installation of your core aerator spike or pin aeration wheel. Only requires a ratchet and a deep socket. Sintered brass oil / greaseable bushing.
INSTALLATION: The small washer and your nut should fit inside the inset of hub.
If your nut has a washer fused to it and does not fit inside the hub bottoming out on the inner hub face you will need to get a nyloc nut, and use the small washer provided. Insure correct thread pitch.
USE OF 3 LARGER WASHERS (all applications) The best way to gauge how many large spacing washers you need remove your wheel then place the brass bushing on the axle and then the small washer and nut. Slide bushing to end of axle touching the small washer face and the space behind the brass bushing is the amount of larger washers needed to take up axle space,
YOU MUST ALLOW 1 mm of gap for free-spinning. Oil or grease axle for long life bronze bushing absorbs oil and grease.
ONLY TORO: Type nut-washer/axle combination. Bolt/nut/washer axle combination the washers edge must be inset into hub bottoming out on the inside of the hub inner face. You may have to use a grinder or hand file to remove a 1 mm or 2 mm to allow for the edge of the washer to not come in contact with the inside of the hub.