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So I've had a chance to do nearly a full season of mowing with my newly acquired 214, and I'm noticing that my mower deck needs some love. I need some help with adjustments. Right now I can see that it's higher on one side than the other, even though all the guide wheels are installed in the...

Can anyone ID this grass catcher? It's the one I got with this mower, and I'd like to get replacement parts.

Picked up a 1987 214 from my neighbor last night for $300. Runs good, but he tells me that the variator needs work. I can confirm that upon driving home, I observe that the variator lever does nothing, and when in gear, the mower does not stay at a constant speed. At times it will surge forward...

My neighbor just picked up a little Simplicity machine since his JD 214 was starting to give him some speed problems. His variator has started malfunctioning. He can't seem to keep it in the speed he selects with the variable speed control lever. I'm interested in purchasing the machine from him...

Got the disk cup assembly pulled off one side, and then I was able to remove the cone spindle assembly. Look what I found on the lower bearing.... Yeah, that's not good. That's supposed to be all one piece :)

No, it's one of the bearings that is constantly spinning when the motor is running. I did find a pretty good writeup of someone who took apart a similar transaxle on a ZTR-429. I should be able to use this as a guide, hopefully. Part 1: 1993 Dixon ZTR429 Transaxle Rebuild -...

Was in the middle of mowing my back yard on Sunday, and suddenly heard a clink-screeeeeeeeeeech, and then the motor died. Tried turning the motor over to restart, and it wouldn't even turn. I couldn't turn the flywheel myself by hand either. Something was stuck. I removed the transaxle drive...

I've got a 12HP 281707-0128-01 that is surging and stalling constantly. This is on a Dixon 428 ZTR mower. I took a closer look at the throttle linkage, and I see what appears to be a broken spring on the throttle linkage. It looks like the spring slides up and down the linkage, and maybe...

Picked up a Dixon ZTR 428 last night from a friend. The ignition switch has been rewired to start the motor, but it will not shut it off. Previous owner picked up the mower in tough shape, and hotwired the switch so he could crank the motor to start it, but never got around to getting things...