Riding Mower 42-inch Deck V-Belt

I had watched the video on removing deck and replacing the belt. While I was at it I replace all the belts. The video was very helpful and pretty straight forward

Lowered the cutting blade pan to lowest setting. Removed the two blade pulley covers by loosening and removing 6 screws with 5/16 socket. Then loosened the belt guard around main drive belt. Next removed two tension pulleys and removed the old stretched belt. Reversed steps to install new built.
Most difficult part was holding the lower end of the pulley bolt with an end wrench to keep it from rotating so the lock nut on top of the pulley could be removed.

Removed the deck from the mower, and replaced the belt. While I had the deck off I did a thorough cleaning of the deck and the mower.

1. Removed mower deck from mower
2. Removed belt guards (2)
3. Removed idler assembly.
4. Could not remove one idler and had to bend belt guard away from idler to remove and replace belt.
5. Installed belt on deck pulleys.
6. Installed deck to mower.
7. Checked mower operation with new belt.

Removed the mower deck. removed the battery. Removed the belt retainer from the engine pulley. Removed the primary drive belt. Removed the transaxle drive spring and removed the transaxle top pulley and removed the secondary drive belt. Removed the variable speed pulley and lubed it with WD40. Reinstalled the variable speed pulley. Reinstalled the secondary belt and reinstalled the transaxle pulley. Reinstalled the transaxle drive spring. Reinstalled the primary drive belt. Removed and replaced the mower deck belt and removed and sharpened and reinstalled the blades. Reinstalled the mower deck and reinstalled the engine belt retainer.

Remove mower deck, remove old spindle and worn belt. sharpen blades and then attached mower deck back on riding mower.

1. Watch video on YouTube.
2. Remove deck.
3. Remove Battery.
4. Remove drive belts.
5. Install new drive belts.
6. Reinstall Battery.
7. Reinstall deck.

We were also changing the front Pivot Axle (ordered separately). We had to use our car jack to jack up the front of the mower - I have a mower jack, but that only picks up one side and we needed both front wheels off the ground. Then we had to remove the wheel on the side with the steering assembly, then the old steering assembly. There were 3 of us working on it - 2 senior females and 1 senior male. It was hard work for us, but we just took our time and got it done without any damages or injuries to ourselves or the mower. Some of the bolts are a little hard to get to - and you have to remove some other things from the front to get to the Pivot Axle - but it was worth it. It is now steering like a new mower once more. I mowed for 3 hours this morning and it worked great. Good to fix things yourself if you can.

replaced old blades with new blades and cleaned mower deck

Remove deck to replace belt found ilder pulley noisy replace that pulley install deck with new belt