How Do You Remove A Mower Deck?
Removing the lawn mower deck is the best way to perform most of your lawn mower maintenance and the best way to make repairs to your lawn mower. Quick repairs would be: removing and replacing badly damaged lawn mower blades, replacing the deck belt because it no longer holds its tension and replacing the pulley because it is warn. Some examples of maintenance would be sharpening the blades and cleaning debris or rust from the deck. Step 1 Drive the lawn mower to a level part of the yard and turn it off. Step 2 Set the parking brakes and lower the deck to its lowest setting using the deck lever. You can also place pieces of lumber under the front deck and rear deck before lowering the deck to avoid the deck just falling to the ground. Step 3 Remove any attachments that may be in your way along with the blade drive belt from the front pulley. Step 4 Locate the pins (anywhere from two to four in the rear and two to four in the front but varies according to lawn mower brand) that connect t
