Luffydog wrote:I have one doing the same thing but all idlers and spindles are good. Frustrating trying to figure it out been back 4 times to shop. Never broke the belt just throwing it off. On the tension idler pulley they make 2 brackets one with one belt guide and the other with 2 belt guides. Their is a serial break on the deck so I just ordered the one with the 2 guides and put it on. Also it doesn't help that they don't throttle it up all the way when they turn the pto on. Maybe you can use this and look in a little deeper at the break in the numbers on the deck and might also check the spring they do loose their tension although they look and feel good allowing just enough slack at times to throw the belt.
Those are the 38C (with and without the belt tensioner handle) and 42" without the belt tensioner handle. The 42" with the handle it is the L shaped LH belt retainer I am finding broken off.
hanz63 wrote:I've not found a belt with the same girth as the OEM. Stens is the closest, but still smaller. If you have an identical belt, would you mind sharing? I had a lady that was hard on these belts. Snap each time -shock failure. Discussed throttling back as mentioned. Still broke them. I had read some scuttlebutt on the pitch and watching that the rear lift / adjuster arm didn't interfere. Still broke them. Now Mrs x , you are using the mow in reverse feature, aren't you? Blank stare. Be sure and tell your customers to use the MIR rather than constantly playing the engage/ disengage game. Now instead of belts per year it is years per belt.
A&I and Sunbelt Outdoors Products carries these (basically the same company). Can be gotten through the JD dealer or anyone that sell these brands. Actually if it is the M154601 the JD belt is .490 wide with effective length of 143.409 and the Stens 265-244 is .500 with an effective length of 143.5. The A&I is .500 with an effective length of 143.4
As for the reverse inhibit it is easy to take care of if it is a problem but it is there for safety and liability issues. It only takes one child being ran over in reverse to make it worth the hassle of having it; although, none my personal mowers have an operational reverse inhibit but I restated them before I sell one of them. Personal injury lawyers have make it necessary to have it as operators apparently have no responsibility for their own carelessness.
I already got one mower this year where they bypassed the PTO switch on a manual engaged deck so now it starts with it engaged. Since the customer has turned down the $400 repair estimate (engine needs a cam and deck needs serious repairs [shadetree repairs and other problems]) it not being repaired back to operational status. They went through a lot of hassles removing the switch so they could screw it. Apparently the reverse inhibit was driving them nuts but the Yardman it a lots easier to care of without damaging switches.
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