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When charging your tractor's battery, use
IMPORTANT:
only a charger designed for 12V lead-acid batteries.
Read your battery charger's Owner's Manual prior to
charging your tractor's battery. Always follow its
instructions and heed its warnings.
If your tractor has not been put into use for an extended
period of time, charge the battery as follows:
1. Set your battery charger to deliver a maximum of
10 amperes.
2. If your battery charger is automatic, charge the
battery until the charger indicates that charging is
complete. If the charger is not automatic, charge for
no fewer than eight hours.
Cutting Deck Removal
To remove the cutting deck, proceed as follows:
1. Place the PTO/Blade Engage lever in the
disengaged (OFF) position and engage the parking
brake.
2. Lower the deck by moving the deck lift lever into the
bottom notch on the right fender.
3. Remove the hairpin clip that secures the PTO cable
to the rear of the cutting deck. See Figure 22.
Hairpin Clip
PTO Cable
Figure 22
4. Remove the PTO cable and accompanying spring
from the cutting deck.
5. Remove the belt keeper rod from around the
engine pulley by removing the self-tapping screw
(A) that secures it. See Figure 23 .
NOTE:
Note what hole the other end of the belt-keeper rod is
inserted into for reinstallation purposes.
6. Remove the deck belt from around the tractor's
engine pulley(B) and (C).
7. Looking at the cutting deck from the left side of the
tractor, locate the deck support pin on the rear left
side of the deck.
NOTE:
Pull the deck support pin outward to release
the deck from the deck lift arm. See Figure 24.
Spring
C
Support Pin
8. Repeat the above steps on the tractor's right side.
9. Move the deck lift lever into the top notch to raise
the deck lift arms up and out of the way.
10. Gently slide the cutting deck toward the front of the
tractor allowing the hooks on the deck to release
themselves from the deck stabilizer rod.
11. Gently slide the cutting deck (from the right side)
out from underneath the tractor.
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A
B
Figure 23
Figure 24
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