The variator spring could be tightened all the way, but the spring itself might just be stretching due to age.
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Both belts are genuine JD belts.
I will have to test and see if it does it with the deck disengaged.... maybe tomorrow, if it doesn't rain....
I will have to test and see if it does it with the deck disengaged.... maybe tomorrow, if it doesn't rain....
Not really... belts are clean, and new.
Nothing is slipping, it just decides it wants to go slower for a while. Testing without deck running is going to have to wait though.... got a delivery to make.....
Nothing is slipping, it just decides it wants to go slower for a while. Testing without deck running is going to have to wait though.... got a delivery to make.....
Ok, checked the deck, and there was indeed a bearing there that was toast. Mowing the lawn again today, the deck runs MUCH quieter.....
I tightened the variator spring as much as possible. (left just enough threads for the locknut on one side, and ran the other all the way down.) Readjusted as well. Everything seems to be where it should be, belts are new.. (both of them.) But, I still get the random slowdown. It seems distance related more than anything else. When it slows, is is pretty much in the same area in my rounds. The ground is flat, the grass isn't tall, there is no hill..... it isn't struggling at all. It just slows down..... Seems to be slowly bleeding off speed till it gets to a tipping point, that it just slows to a crawl. Sometimes, if I pull up hard on the clutch pedal, it will accelerate back to speed, and stay there for a while. Other times, I can pull as hard as I want, an it won't speed up at all..... let it run for another 10 or 20 feet, and then I can pull it up.
This is rather annoying.... especially when I am trying to beat a storm to get the lawn done. (I lost... yard ain't done, raining like monsoon season.... guess I am done for a while. )
Ideas? Thoughts?
I tightened the variator spring as much as possible. (left just enough threads for the locknut on one side, and ran the other all the way down.) Readjusted as well. Everything seems to be where it should be, belts are new.. (both of them.) But, I still get the random slowdown. It seems distance related more than anything else. When it slows, is is pretty much in the same area in my rounds. The ground is flat, the grass isn't tall, there is no hill..... it isn't struggling at all. It just slows down..... Seems to be slowly bleeding off speed till it gets to a tipping point, that it just slows to a crawl. Sometimes, if I pull up hard on the clutch pedal, it will accelerate back to speed, and stay there for a while. Other times, I can pull as hard as I want, an it won't speed up at all..... let it run for another 10 or 20 feet, and then I can pull it up.
This is rather annoying.... especially when I am trying to beat a storm to get the lawn done. (I lost... yard ain't done, raining like monsoon season.... guess I am done for a while.
)Ideas? Thoughts?
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