Grinding reel on Toro GM 1000

Now that the drum bearings have been replaced time to grind the reel.

 Ok so 1st thing I do is loosen the spring tension nut.

 Remove bed bar bolt.

 Grinding top face on bed knife. I grind the top face on this bed knife at 5*

 Short video of grinder in action.

 Next grind front face of bed knife. I grind the front face at 5*. This will vary depending on the type of grass you have.

 Mower all set up in grinder. Made sure that my reel wasn't coned. All is good so now time to grind. This Bernhard grinder only takes 2 min on the touch up cycle. It is a lot faster than my old Foley but both grinders have their good points and bad points. We will talk about this in another post.

 Putting bed knife back in mower. Hand tighten the bed bar bolt only Do Not Use impact gun. Next hand tight the nut down so that the washers still turn but aren't flopping around.

Tighten up the bed bar tension spring. You want to bottom out the spring but not to the point that you mess up the spring. Then back the nut of 1 turn. Now set light contact on reel and make sure its cuts paper. Reset height of mower.