Jake - thank you for the advice. I will go look up that site and invest in the ball bearings and loader.

So far, the cat has been relatively easy on the budget. I spent $20 on a thick line for raising the mast, and an enormous waste of $180 on a useless ez-step mast stepper. $40 to get a working traveller is fine; it just seems like a lot of money for tiny balls (wow that pun never gets old).

I could be wrong but I think I have the newer car. It looks almost identical to the "new" car featured on the Murray's site. It could be, however, that the previous owner purchased the new car but used the old ball bearings in it?