Blade 942-04308A

Lifted the front end of the mower and put jack stands beneath it. Used an impact wrench to removed the blade nuts. Removed the old blades. Installed the blades on the spindles , then tightened the blade nuts.

1. Removed mowing deck from the mower.
2. Removed cutting blades and broken spindle.
3. Replaced broken spindle.
4. Replaced both cutting blades.
5. Replaced mowing deck to the mower.
6. Adjusted drive belt.

1. Raised the tractor using a hydraulic car jack.
(Remember to leave the tractor in gear and set the parking brake. Use wheel chocks to
prevent forward movement.)
2. I placed 2 cinder blocks under each of the back wheels.
3. Utilizing the 25 inch breaker bar and a piece of 4 X 4 to block
the blade from moving, I removed the bad blade.
4. I lined up the new blade, then hand tightened the blade on the shaft.
5. The last function, using the tools from 3, I tightened the nut.
6. Raised the tractor off the blocks using a hydraulic car jack.
7. I removed the cinder blocks under the back wheels, lowered
the tractor and removed the wheel chocks.

Just remove the flanged nut from the spindle and remove the old blade, install the new blade on the spindle and tighten the flanged nut

Removed deck, replaced both spindles with socket set. Also replaced with new blades and new drive belt. Takes around 1 hour to do. Pretty straight forward. Put deck back on tractor and fired it up. Then mowed 3 acres of lawn.

Loosened nut holding the blade;
fitted a hew washer and put new blade on the bolt; tightened nut onto the bolt.

I started by driving the Cub Cadet LX-42 Riding Mower onto my car ramps and tried to remove the nuts holding the blade. I did not have luck with this so I went on online to look for a Video.

In the video they showed you how to remove the entire deck off the tractor. I did that and brought the deck outside and scraped and hosed off all the dried grass from the underside of the deck.

I then used an Impact driver to remove the nuts holding the 2 blades. I installed the 2 blades with the impact driver as well. I then reinstalled the deck which was a lot easier then trying to do this from the bottom.

The 2 plastic wheels were easy just used a wrench to remove and replace.

I then and went out and cut the grass and the mower is working much better now with the new wheels to keep the deck level and with the 2 new blade.

Removed old blades
Installed new blades
Installed new belt guard

removed the blades

Removed old blades with a wrench.
Replaced the blades with a wrench