Installing belt on Woods L59 on Super A

Badger08 · Jun 29, 2015

I've searched the forum and hate to ask but I spent an hour trying to install the belt, I'm sure my manual is correct, published in 1993 and I looked on Woods website and I thought they showed a different installation routing.

The trouble I'm finding is after installing per the manual instructions when I get to the third pulley where I pointed the blue arrow at, you gain a twist there, so then going back to the idler pulley's and up to the drive pulley you have an extra twist. It's been driving me nuts, and would like to mow with it this year.

Thanks for any help, I'll take any at this point!

Bouncer · Jun 29, 2015

I'm not sure how you are gaining a twist there. The belt simply lays flat in the pulleys and while over the whole deck. You do not add any twist until you get to the rear idler. It might try to twist on you some coming around that last pulley, but you just have to turn the twist out.

Badger08 · Jun 29, 2015

(quoted from post at 04:13:24 06/30/15) I'm not sure how you are gaining a twist there. The belt simply lays flat in the pulleys and while over the whole deck. You do not add any twist until you get to the rear idler. It might try to twist on you some coming around that last pulley, but you just have to turn the twist out.

Yeah, I don't know how to explain it except I start like in the book and with a straight belt, then go around the center pulley then the left hand pulley, then bringing it behind the third pulley and bringing it to the front I twist it over the top of the pulley and bring it to the rear and thats where my problem is, I gain that twist. I will have to try tomorrow after work, keep raining here anyways! Thanks Bouncer for the reply!

gene bender · Jun 30, 2015

Fig 27 is for the older models as that front idler should be a smooth one keeping that twist between driver and that grouved idler is not good

notjustair · Jun 30, 2015

I swear I have pictures of mine so I could remember. Let me look.

notjustair · Jun 30, 2015

Got it! Ok, here's what I have:

This mower has a right side throw so the belt does a cross under the tractor. Ignore that. Everything else is the same. I hope you can see the belt twists. Basically, the belt on the left side does on quarter turn to the right and the one on the right does a three quarter turn to the left so it works out. It does a quarter turn from the deck to the tensioner and then a half turn left from there to the drive pulley. The belts should gain no twists on the deck.
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jal-SD · Jun 30, 2015

Remember that the 1/2 twist and the 1/4 twists go in the opposite direction of the 3/4 twist. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)

Badger08 · Jun 30, 2015

I will give all advice a shot and see what happens. I'm usually pretty good at thinking through something like this and tried many times and different ways and couldn't. A few years ago when I got the tractor and mower I did it just fine so who knows!

gene bender · Jul 1, 2015

You dont have a L59 if it throws to the right and it should have right hand threads on the spindles.

Installing belt on Woods L59 on Super A

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