Repairs craftsman tractor
- Thread starter boston
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Yes. I usually take the battery out and put it on a battery tender.:smile:
Don't load your trailer too heavily, keep good grease, gear lube, whatever it calls for in there, and you should be okay. Avoid big shock loads to the tractor, this is what kills them quickly..:frown:
Are you talking about when you've got the mower deck engaged? They should normally run pretty smoothly after a couple seconds of engagement. If the whole thing is shaking like a wet dog, you may have any or all of the following problems:
Damaged mandrels for the mower blades
Bent quills in the mandrels
Bent, opened, or pinched pulleys on the mandrels
Worn or damaged belt driving the deck
Rusted belt tensioning arms, missing springs
Bent mowing blade (s)
deck cracked or damaged where mandrels attach
When the blades are engadged I hear the rattling and vibrating a lot of the time but more recently, when I'm driving it without the blades going, the whole deck vibrates and rattles when I turn or in different positions of the front wheels. The blades on it are new. Besides that, usually when I'm driving without the blades going, I hear a loud knocking sound coming right from the belt. When I look at it, it seems pretty loose on the pulleys