Was clearing out the rough patches along the tree line yesterday when I heard a loud screeching noise and lost all power to the blades. Crawled underneath and found one of the idler pulleys completely seized up, which ended up melting a flat spot right through the belt. I need to order some john deere replacement parts online to swap out the stuck pulley and get a fresh belt on deck. For a DIYer working with just a basic socket set, is getting a rusted pulley off the deck shaft pretty straightforward, or am I going to need a special puller to break it free?
Deck pulley seized up and melted the belt
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Runs With Scissors
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For those of us not familiar with your set up, pics would help a lot in order for us to offer ideas.
some idler pulleys you can replace the inner bearing.
not sure what you are working on ... is this kubota or john queer?
not sure what you are working on ... is this kubota or john queer?
I had the same problem with my Bush Hog finish mower last month, I started with spaying all the bolts down with penetrating oil, every day while I was waiting for the replacement parts to arrive. May have been over kill but but worth it as my pulley was attached on the main housing so I had to just about take the whole mower apart to change one pulley. I took the down time to do PM functions like greasing everything that needed it new oil and scrapped off rust and touched up the paint a bit. Everything on my mower was std. bolts no puller required, did use a cheater bar on the breaker bar as they were a bit tough to break free. I did down load the manual for my unit to understand how it was assembled from the expanded view pictures, I did find my replacement part on line, it was a bit faster delivery than my local as it was not a stock item for them. My mower is an older model that I bought used.
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I replace the idler bearings on both my Ariens xl60 zero turn and John Deere 345. I drill out the rivets or spot welds and then refasten the two halves with bolts or re-weld.
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I was wondering about the JD reference also.
Which deck do you have?
RCK54D-26BX-1/RCK54D-26BX
RCK60B23BX
RCK60D-26BX-1/RCK60D-26BX
They're all held on the same way.
Getting the pully off shouldn't be that involved once you get the cir-clip off (#120).
Which deck do you have?
RCK54D-26BX-1/RCK54D-26BX
RCK60B23BX
RCK60D-26BX-1/RCK60D-26BX
They're all held on the same way.
Getting the pully off shouldn't be that involved once you get the cir-clip off (#120).