Went to mow the lawn Tue. afternoon, and our Husquvarna YTH2348 wouldn't move. I checked up under it and the drive belt had fallen off. I tried to put it back on the pullies, but it wouldn't grab enough tension to work.
So I pushed it to a working area and dropped the deck. Once I got that out of the way I could kinda see one of the pullies had frozen at some point and the belt melted a slot into the plastic.
However, even if I adjust the pulley to a round spot, I still couldn't get the belt to tighten. My thinking is the belt got hot and stretched from melting that pulley.
Ordered a new belt and all three idler pullies.
I then jacked it up put it on stands and pulled the TuffTorq out of it. It had never been changed before so I thought, might as well! I looked up the info on the K46 and it called out 10W30 or syn 5W50.
I went down to my friendly neighborhood Schaeffers dealer, and purchased 3qts of #9001 5W50 racing oil. I was impressed with how clean the oil coming out was even with 150 hours. I don't think Ill ever change the oil in it again.
Then I took off that stupid drain plug thing on the engine that drools all over the frame and put on a brass 3/8x4" nipple, street elbow, and cap. You can also see the relocated harness for the headlights. If you look up this model (ex. Amazon) you'll find people have had these catch fire because from the factory the harness just dangles against the valve cover and exhaust. I used those christmas trees that get taped to harnesses on cars and then pushed it into a hole in the frame.
Oil installed was Delo XLE 10W30 and a Purolator Classic L20195 (FL400/PH3600 size)
Oh yeah, and the headlight harness no longer goes to the "lights" in the hood. I stalled a freebie 5" off-road light I got from a friend. He was gonna throw it out after upgrading to LEDs, but I saved one. Just had to get a longer carriage bolt to go all the way though the round bumper.
I also sharpened the blades, which needed doing. No pics, but they are WELL CHOWDERED and past their life. I want to get some of those Gator blades and put them on, but we've already spent some money on this thing getting it running this year, as it had been sitting outside for 2 years unused. Including 4 new tires that I had posted here about getting recently. So, I will get them next year when I pull the deck and clean/grease everything as part of the yearly PM.
So I pushed it to a working area and dropped the deck. Once I got that out of the way I could kinda see one of the pullies had frozen at some point and the belt melted a slot into the plastic.
However, even if I adjust the pulley to a round spot, I still couldn't get the belt to tighten. My thinking is the belt got hot and stretched from melting that pulley.
Ordered a new belt and all three idler pullies.
I then jacked it up put it on stands and pulled the TuffTorq out of it. It had never been changed before so I thought, might as well! I looked up the info on the K46 and it called out 10W30 or syn 5W50.
I went down to my friendly neighborhood Schaeffers dealer, and purchased 3qts of #9001 5W50 racing oil. I was impressed with how clean the oil coming out was even with 150 hours. I don't think Ill ever change the oil in it again.
Then I took off that stupid drain plug thing on the engine that drools all over the frame and put on a brass 3/8x4" nipple, street elbow, and cap. You can also see the relocated harness for the headlights. If you look up this model (ex. Amazon) you'll find people have had these catch fire because from the factory the harness just dangles against the valve cover and exhaust. I used those christmas trees that get taped to harnesses on cars and then pushed it into a hole in the frame.
Oil installed was Delo XLE 10W30 and a Purolator Classic L20195 (FL400/PH3600 size)
Oh yeah, and the headlight harness no longer goes to the "lights" in the hood. I stalled a freebie 5" off-road light I got from a friend. He was gonna throw it out after upgrading to LEDs, but I saved one. Just had to get a longer carriage bolt to go all the way though the round bumper.
I also sharpened the blades, which needed doing. No pics, but they are WELL CHOWDERED and past their life. I want to get some of those Gator blades and put them on, but we've already spent some money on this thing getting it running this year, as it had been sitting outside for 2 years unused. Including 4 new tires that I had posted here about getting recently. So, I will get them next year when I pull the deck and clean/grease everything as part of the yearly PM.
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