Re: stx38 mower belt

Great! Now that you have it on the correct way, take the sleeve the
belt was packaged in, and draw the diagram on that sleeve, and hang it
in your shed / barn / junk drawer  for future use.


On 7 Oct 2003 10:23:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Tallgrass) wrote:

>===<>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>===<>> It may seem like you have the wrong belt. I too get lost every now and
>===<>> then when it ocmes to replacing the belt on my decks, but its either
>===<>> going to wind up way to short, rub something, be miles to long or  it
>===<>> will fit perfectly..............and thats just with using the right
>===<>> belt, but its only going to go one way. Don't forget on one or two of
>===<>> those pulleys the belt rides on its face against the pulley and not on
>===<>> its inner surface, and the pulley that is is driven by the engine
>===<>> itself and also has the deck pulley built on to it, it makes a pretty
>===<>> hard bend there and around the tensioner pulley
>===<>
>===<>Thanks for your support.  After browsing the JD site and sleeping on
>===<>this project, I went out, changed the direction of the belt over the
>===<>tensioner pulley, attached the spring, and voile'!!
>===<>
>===<>And all this *before* coffee!
>===<>
>===<>In retrospect, one of the diagrams at the JD site does depict the flow
>===<>of the belt, but the diagram is labeled "drive", which made me think
>===<>is was showing a belt driven tractor drive.
>===<>
>===<>I suppose the frugal mechanic would draw a diagram for themselves, for
>===<>future reference, eh??
>===<>
>===<>Linda H.

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