Thank You! Your video will keep me from drinking before Happy Hour with your easy to follow instructions on deck belt instructions. Bottoms UP Monday is now going to be a tolerable day!
Dude, my second comment on this video and wanted to thank you so very much for making this video as it made it super easy for me to put my belt on my deck. Plenty of other videos out there but not as easy to follow along as yours was truthfully. Keep it up as she. Runs like new again. Also found the reason it was blowing through belts as I was putting this one on and turns out the idler arm was wallowed out on the top where the nutt tightens down. A large washer to help tighten that slop up and she is good to go for now. Heck, the belt only cost me $11 so even if it does break before too long it was still well worth it for me
I'm currently building two old Craftsman lawn tractors, an Ariens lawn tractor and at the painting stage of the Cub Cadet. Lesson I learned was take pictures before taking apart and label label label. The lawn tractor I sold last year kicked my ass on belts because two years went by. BTW, thanks for what you do.
Oof!! When you held up that belt I thought it was one of the snakes from the Snake Museum. Just for a split second.😄 Anyway, good vid, as usual. And good to see you made it back alive from all the snakes. 😁👍 P.S. If you want to see some real snakes, head to D.C. next vacation.😵
But how to you KEEP the belt on? I ve been helping my sister with her x300 and have all new components and the engagement clutch is so sudden, it jumps the belt off every time no matter the idle speed nor the deck height. She’s going to junk it!
One question what belt are you using? Once a belt comes off it will always jump off. It gets a memory set when it twists. Make sure it’s installed correctly with a factory OEM belt.
Honestly, like how stupid simple you made it seem.. I am all for the KISS method (keep it simple stupid) and this is some prime time example. Truly appreciate it as I got this lawnmower recently with no belt attached to it so it will be my first time putting one in here. It was a freebie from up the road with a sign saying such but keeps breaking belts. That's next on my list to figure out.
The pivoting "idler arm" that the spring attaches to will wear its mounting holes elongated and cause problems. Ridiculous setup overall...design engineer must of been on drugs.
The deck leveling bolt that sits about a sixteenth away from the belt on that back left pulley when it’s remounted scares me. Seriously considering cutting the extra threading off. Advice?
