Adjusting Handle Height; Adjusting Cutting Height - Craftsman 247.388240 Owner's Manual

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Adjusting Handle Height
Your mower is shipped with the handle in the higher
height position.To lower the handle height, proceed
as follows.
• Remove the starter rope from the rope guide.
• Remove the upper handle by removing the hand
knobs and carriage bolts. Lay the upper handle
out of the way, being careful not to bend or kink
the cable.
• Remove the hairpin clip from the weld pin on the
handle bracket on each side of the lower handle.
See Figure 18 inset. Press out on the legs of the
lower handle. Remove lower handle from the
mower.
• Turn the lower handle around so the notch on
the bottom of the lower handle is facing forward
as shown in Figure 18. Reassemble, placingthe
bottom hole on the handle over the weld pin in
the handle mounting bracket.
• Reassemble the upper handle to the lower
handle.
• Place the hairpin clips in the inner holes in the
weld pins and attach the starter rope as
instructed in the Assembly section. See Figure
18 inset.
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Hairpin
Clip
Handle
Notch
Adjusting Cutting Height
IMPORTANT: All wheels must be placed in the same
relative position.
• Raise the mowerwheels for low cutand lowerthe
wheels for highcut. For rough or uneven lawns,
move the height adjustment lever to a higher
position.This will help stop scalpingof the
grass.
There is an adjusting plate and thumb lever at each
wheel position to adjust the cutting height. Each
adjusting plate has nine height positions.Height of cut
will change if you move the thumb lever from one hole
to another.
• Simply depress the lever towards wheel and
move the wheel and lever assembly to the
desired position.See Figure 19. All wheels
must be placed in the same relative positionfor
uniform cutting height,
• For rough or uneven lawns, move the height
adjustment handles to positionswhich will give
a higher cutting height. Both front and rear
handles must be placed in the same relative
position.
Height Adjustment
Lever
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Figure 19
Figure 18
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