by KE4AVB » Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:13 am
Well since the GX20072 JD specs are .556 x 103.74 (effective length) so you could try the MTD 954-04219 which is around 1/2 x 103.25 but you can't trust any belt to be the same exact length everytime when you buy one is a miracle.
Stens claims theirs is within a +- .25" but you can't even trust that as I brought a 954-04219 belt from them that was to be 103.25" and it came in at 104". What was strange is that on the MTD 46" deck that the 103" was to on ended up with a 102" belt in the end.
JD website claims the GX20072 to be a HA belt but info I have here is that a HA is a .500 belt.
I have just scream to the top my lungs many a time when buying aftermarket belts that come in not to spec they they claimed them to be. This why I had to buy that v-belt measuring tool just to save some my nerves. Just so much miss information out there it is funny for us that try to make an informed decision. BTW it not the local JD shop that belts are wrong either as they are in the boat as the rest of us as near end users as they have depend JD factory to send the right belts.
This is what happen to cause to have belt I got now. It is aftermarket belt that I got in place of a JD belt. It was way too short even the printed specs were right. Then I got one from the dealer and it was a 1/4" short of the spec. I ended up having to walk the belt on the mule drive.
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