[Dave Lister]

So.....
I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to this question, but should there be paint on the underside of my mower deck? I'm guessing yes....
I just pulled the deck off my 180 for the winter so I could do a bit of maintenance on it and put the blower on and it was nothing but dried grass caked on and when that was brushed off, just steel. No yellow anywhere.

I plan on wire wheeling the entire underside then hitting it up with some JD yellow. Sound like a good plan?
While I'm at it, would you do the top as well? 90% of the yellow paint is still on the top though, just a few wear spots where the paint rubbed off on something else.

Thanks, and I should have some pics up later hopefully.

Tim

 

[KATT]

You mean from this ?

To this ?

 

[61woody]

Showoff! J/k
The guys will have lots of good ideas for the underside. As far as the top, clean and degrease it, maybe runs some some fine steel wool over the worn areas just enough to slightly dull the paint around the bare spots then spray with a rattle can. It will probably need touching up yearly, mine usually do.

 

[Herd of Deeres]

Yes they should be painted but you don't lose points if they're not as pretty as KATTs. Since its the underside of the deck and the paint is just going to get blown off next year I'm not real choosy about the color. I just did my 110 deck in black. Make sure you lube the zerks on the blade spindles too.

 

[KATT]

O KAY! just rough it up, wire brush it, get some POR ( paint over rust) and paint it anything you want cause it will be blasted off by the grass next season anyway, unless you use one of the "wonder" paint listed in an other thread ( I don't remember which ones but someone will be along)
GEEZ .... :00000060:I was just answering his original question :00000060:

 

[Dave Lister]

Holy crap Katt, it looks like you have my deck in the first picture.
Depending on how the spring goes after maple sugaring ends and before the grass grows, we'll see about making it look as close to pic # 2 as possible. And yellow will be the color of choice.
As far as zerks, where would they be located? top or bottom of the deck?
I saw absolutely nothing on the deck bottom of the deck, though I do have a substantial amount of caked on grass that could be covering something important. Thankfullythough, both spindles move quite freely by hand with no tension on the spring.

 

[KATT]

Thanks... They are there under all that crap on the underside spindles Herd will remember EXACTLY where it's been a while