I am working on a friend's White LT 13 lawn mower. It is a supper clean one for its age. She has a small yard and it has never set out.
She locked a blade up on a piece of wood and burnt a spot on the deck drive belt. I am a Sten's dealer so I cross matched the belt and ordered it. The belt I got was just a little wider. It would not disengage when the deck lever was pulled back. So I went and got a MTD belt that is the exact same part number as the belt it came with. The MTD belt is just the same as the Sten's belt. It still will not disengage the deck.
I have looked at the linkage and all I can see that would adjust the deck belt is a pin towards the rear of the deck. It goes through two arms and they have three holes in them. It is currently in the very bottom one. I think moving the pin up a hole would make the belt be looser when disengaged.
Now the problem. There is spring that pulls back on the deck. It is hooked on the pin/rod and then goes back to a bracket under the left side of the drive axle. I can not pull hard enough to release this spring. I even had my son try it and he can't get it off either.
So am I correct in that the pin is how you adjust the belt tension??? IF so how do you get the spring off???
She locked a blade up on a piece of wood and burnt a spot on the deck drive belt. I am a Sten's dealer so I cross matched the belt and ordered it. The belt I got was just a little wider. It would not disengage when the deck lever was pulled back. So I went and got a MTD belt that is the exact same part number as the belt it came with. The MTD belt is just the same as the Sten's belt. It still will not disengage the deck.
I have looked at the linkage and all I can see that would adjust the deck belt is a pin towards the rear of the deck. It goes through two arms and they have three holes in them. It is currently in the very bottom one. I think moving the pin up a hole would make the belt be looser when disengaged.
Now the problem. There is spring that pulls back on the deck. It is hooked on the pin/rod and then goes back to a bracket under the left side of the drive axle. I can not pull hard enough to release this spring. I even had my son try it and he can't get it off either.
So am I correct in that the pin is how you adjust the belt tension??? IF so how do you get the spring off???