Washer

Lifted front end of mower and placed on 3 ft. 2x4
Removed mower blade retainer nut , washers and blade found had a broken blade adapter.
then found mandrel was bad.
Removed mandrel Bolts which one of them snapped off.
Removed mower deck pin so front of deck swung down
Removed Mandrel with pulley etc.
Removed pulley and put on New mandrel.
Put mandrel and pulley back into position raising the mower deck and putting pin back in place; had to fight with the belt a little bit. Put bolts in place, tightened them up for mandrel, put blade adapter on then Blade washer and nut and tightened that down and lowered front of lawn mower.

1. Removed the cutting deck from the mower.
2. Used an impact wrench to dis-assemble and remove the components.
3. Replaced the upper pulleys, the spindle shafts, the shaft housings (mandrills) and the cutting blades.
4. Reassembled the components.
5. Replaced the cutting deck.