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How to Adjust the Deck on a Troy-Bilt

Over time, a ride-on lawn mower’s deck that houses the cutting blades — could drift out of level, making an uneven cut in your lawn. Troy-Bilt riding mowers utilize two adjustment places to calibrate the height of the deck. With a few common hand tools, you can quickly adjust a Troy-Bilt riding mower deck to provide you a uniform cut.

Move the lawn into the garage or another area with a flat, level surface, and engage the mower’s parking break. Put the cutting deck in its greatest position by setting the deck lift lever, found on the mower’s best rear fender, at the very top notch. Turn off the mower and permit the motor to cool. Remove the key in the ignition and remove the spark plug ignition wire — the rubber insulated wire connected to the spark plug extending out of the front of the motor below the motor’s hood — to prevent the mower from beginning while you are working on it.

Check the mower’s tire pressure before adjusting the deck by means of a tire pressure gauge — uneven tire pressure can cause the cutting deck to mow unevenly. Add air into the tires, if necessary, using a tire pump until the tires reach the recommended pressure rating stated on the sides.

Put work gloves on to protect your hands in contact with the mower’s sharp cutting blades. Reach beneath the mower’s cutting deck, and rotate the blades so they point toward the front and rear of the mower to correct the front-to-rear height of their blades.

Measure the distance between the front blade tip and the Landscaping service Salt Lake City, UT, and the rear blade tip and the Landscaping rocks Fort Lauderdale using a tape measure. Assess your operator manual for the proper height difference between the front and rear blades for your specific model of Troy-Bilt mower. As an example, the front blades of this Pony model ought to be between 1/4 inch and 3/8 inch lower than the rear blades.

Locate the mower’s stabilizer mount close to the front of the cutting deck it has a very long bolt extending out of it with a large hex-head locknut on its finish, on the exterior of this mower. The locknut is maintained in position with a second, outer nut, known as the jam nut, pushing against the locknut. Loosen the jam nut by means of a wrench to permit the locknut — the internal nut to flip. Tighten the locknut to elevate the cutting deck or loosen it to lower the front of the outer deck. Retighten the jam nut up against the locknut when you are finished adjusting the front-to-rear height of the deck.

Reach under the cutting deck and rotate the blades so they point toward the sides of the mower to correct the side-to-side height of their blades. Measure the distance between every side blade tip and the Landscaping design Phoenix using a tape measure. For a cut, the blades ought to be exactly the exact same distance in the Landscaping estimates San Diego.

Go to the left side of the mower and locate the hex-head screw on the left deck hanger bracket, only before the rear tire. Loosen the screw, but do not remove it. Turn the adjustment gears straight behind the hex-head screw, using a wrench, to correct the side-to-side height of the outer deck. Rotate the equipment clockwise to raise the left side of the cutting deck or rotate it counterclockwise to reduce the left side. After the blade hints on both sides of the mower would be the exact same height from the Landscaping design San Diego, CA, retighten the hex-head screw.

Reconnect the spark plug ignition wire on the front of the mower’s engine.