Maintaining Your Lawn Mower - White Outdoor LC-436 Operator's Manual

wheels must be placed in the same relative
position. See Figure 10.
Figure 10
Handle Height
Your mower is shipped with the handle in the higher
height position.To lower the handle height for your
convenience, proceed as follows.
• Remove the starter rope from the rope guide.
• Remove the upper handle by removing the hand
knobs and carriage bolts. Lay upper handle out of
the way, being careful not to kink the cables.
SECTION 7: MAINTAINING YOUR LAWN MOWER
Replacing Rear Flap
• To remove rear flap, cut off the flat end of the wire
rod which secures it to the deck. See Figure 12.
• Attach the new flap and new rod to deck, bending
the ends of the new rod over to secure to deck.
Rear Discharge
Door
Handle
Bracket
Figure 12
Blade Care
• Periodically inspect the blade adapter for cracks,
especially if you strike a foreign object. Replace
when necessary.
Height
Adjustment
Lever
Handle
Bracket
Rear
Flap
11
• Remove the hairpin clips from the weld pins on the
handle brackets. Press outward on the legs of the
lower handle, and remove it from the mower.
• Turn the lower handle around so the notches on the
bottom of the lower handle are facing forward as
shown in Figure 11. Reassemble, placing the
bottom holes in the handle over the weld pins in the
handle mounting bracket.
• Reassemble the upper handle.
• Place the hairpin clips in the inner holes in the weld
pins and attach the starter rope as instructed in the
assembly instructions on page 7.
Lower
Handle
Figure 11
WARNING: When removing the cutting
blade for sharpening or replacement,
protect hands by using heavy gloves or a
rag to grasp the cutting blade.
• Remove the bolt and blade support or bell washer
which hold the blade and adapter to the engine
crankshaft. See Figure 13. Remove the blade and
adapter from the crankshaft.
• When sharpening the blade, follow the original
angle of grind as a guide. It is extremely important
that each cutting edge receives an equal amount of
grinding to prevent an unbalanced blade.
Blade Adapter
Blade
Figure 13
Notch
Blade
Bell
Support
Hex Bolt