Mower keeps driving

[Solan]

My Ariens 46" 20 hp riding mower does not stop driving when you take your foot off the pedal. You have to use the brake to come to a stop. Same in reverse and forward. Before now if I took my foot off the pedal the mower would slow to a stop. Ideas? Ive never used the cruise control on it and it appears to be in the off position.

 

[keakar]

My Ariens 46" 20 hp riding mower does not stop driving when you take your foot off the pedal. You have to use the brake to come to a stop. Same in reverse and forward. Before now if I took my foot off the pedal the mower would slow to a stop. Ideas? Ive never used the cruise control on it and it appears to be in the off position.

sounds like a return spring underneath there came loose or broke

time to pull the deck and crawl under there for a look around

 

[bertsmobile1]

Also lube the pedal pivots and clean debris from around the transmission.

 

[jross]

My Ariens 46" 20 hp riding mower does not stop driving when you take your foot off the pedal. You have to use the brake to come to a stop. Same in reverse and forward. Before now if I took my foot off the pedal the mower would slow to a stop. Ideas? Ive never used the cruise control on it and it appears to be in the off position.

https://apache.ariens.com/manuals/B-2147.pdf

 

[Born2Mow]

My FIL's Ariens has a belt that's stretched past its useable length. When I engage the blade, the mechanism goes "over center" and will not automatically dis-engage when the control is dis-engaged. The belt looks and runs fine, it's simply stretched. Yours may be the same way.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Mower belts do not stretch
They wear thin so sit deeper in the V grooves thus become loose .
That would not case the symptoms that Solan described