Recent content by slowindown

You focused me where I needed to be. Thanks!

lol. It has over 13 years and over 1700 hours of hard use. I would say it has taken care of me pretty dang well. I do leaf blower it occasionally and weld more sheet to the deck when a new spot rusts through. I do regularly change the oil, hydro filters/oil, and clean/replace the air filter...

FIXED @Mark H_NO noticed one of the transaxle pulleys wobbling more than the other. I remembered that I had replaced that pulley, fan and other bits about 4 years ago. I recall it got really loud and that time it was extremely noticeable that the pulley was shot. So I ordered the kit again and...

I have a new tension spring coming tuesday. I did run my finger through the crank pulley and transaxle pulley when I was replacing components. I'll check againe when I replace the spring. I will also check the mounting points at that time.

Yes, the arm/spring is the arm with the tensioner pulley. It is why I initially replaced the pulley on that arm. But that didn't help. The bushings where that arm pivots and is bolted into a bung on the frame is solid, no slop. So I went on to change the idler pulley and the belt (which was...

I bought this mower (hustler fastrak 54) new in 2013. It has around 1700 hours on it. The last time I changed the hyd oil and filters was mid summer last year. Last week when I was mowing I noticed a grumbling metallic sound developing. I thought was a deck spindle. I turned the blades off...