Glad to hear your on to something. Hope it works out. We'll be waiting patiently for your results.
I Have Found The Belt Problem
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, you wake up and the lighting bolt strikes. This be the case regarding the breaking of PTO/Jack Sheave belts.
I knew there had to be a reason for the "extreme" tilting(angle)on the deck pulley.
Here is the culprit... The welded flange on the deck that holds the bracket...M136635 Arm that the jack sheave and pulleys support. This bracket is welded about 1/4" forward..to the front of the deck from where it should have been welded. This is causing the whole pulley assembly to run at a angle as shown in my other photos in another thread that I posted on Monday. Here is a photo of the...M78194 shaft with the worn areas (2) allowing these worn areas to wear much faster than normal.
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To solve this mistake made by the JD factory, I will grind the bracket welds off, and position it in the proper location and re weld the bracket.
I knew there had to be a reason for the "extreme" tilting(angle)on the deck pulley.
Here is the culprit... The welded flange on the deck that holds the bracket...M136635 Arm that the jack sheave and pulleys support. This bracket is welded about 1/4" forward..to the front of the deck from where it should have been welded. This is causing the whole pulley assembly to run at a angle as shown in my other photos in another thread that I posted on Monday. Here is a photo of the...M78194 shaft with the worn areas (2) allowing these worn areas to wear much faster than normal.
To solve this mistake made by the JD factory, I will grind the bracket welds off, and position it in the proper location and re weld the bracket.
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During all these repairs to the deck, I'm re-engineering some of John Deere mistakes. This be the case involving the infamous plastic bushings that JD installed in the #M136635 and #M111740 bracket arms. John Deere wants $1.95 ea for their bushings. Just returned from IBT.Inc. with four copper oiled bearing (in picture here) to replace the plastic ones at a cost of $.99 ea.
Makes a person think what JD is doing to their products to destroy customer relations.
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Makes a person think what JD is doing to their products to destroy customer relations.
So what GT company has a better network of dealers and service dollar for dollar than JD? And don't quote me anything from the specialty brands which sell 100 machines a year... and are so far out of price range for us green peons...
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