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WARNING:
Avoid the possibility of a
pinching injury. Do not place your fingers on
the idler spring or between the belt and the
pulley while removing the belt.
To change or replace the deck belts on your tractor,
proceed as follows:
•
Lower the deck by moving the deck lift lever into the
bottom notch on the right fender.
•
Remove the belt guards by removing the self-
tapping screws that fasten them to the deck.
•
To ease in removing the belt in later steps, loosen,
but do not remove, the bolt which secures the
pivoting idler pulley to the idler bracket.
•
Insert a 3/8”-drive ratchet wrench (set to
loosen)
into the square hole found in the idler bracket on
the left side of the deck’s surface. See Figure 22.
•
Grasp the ratchet’s handle and pivot it toward the
front of the tractor to relieve tension on the belt.
•
With belt tension relieved,
carefully remove the
belt from around the left-hand spindle pulley.
Figure 22
IMPORTANT:
Carefully allow the ratchet to pivot
rearward before removing it from the square hole.
•
Remove the deck belt from around all pulleys,
including the deck idler pulley.
•
Route the new belts (deck belt first). See Figure 23.
•
Remount the belt guards removed earlier.
CHANGING THE TRANSMISSION DRIVE
BELT
NOTE:
Several components must be removed and
special tools (i.e. air/impact wrench) in order to change
the tractor’s drive belt. See an authorized dealer to
have your drive belts replaced.
Figure 23
3/8”
S
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are Hole
S
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Belt G
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Idler Bracket
Pivoting Idler P
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