7
Installing the Blower
Assembly
Parts needed for this procedure:
1
Blower assembly (from the Blower and Drive Kit)
1
Spring (from the Blower and Drive Kit)
Procedure
WARNING
An uncovered discharge opening could allow
the lawn mower to throw objects at you or
bystanders, resulting in serious injury. Also,
contact with the blade could occur.
• Never operate the lawn mower unless you
install a cover plate, a mulch plate, or a
grass chute and catcher.
• Make sure that the grass deflector is
installed when the grass chute and catcher
are removed.
1.
Remove the side discharge chute from the
mower deck
(Figure
Note:
Save all the hardware and the side
discharge chute. Install the side discharge chute
when the bagger and blower are removed.
16).
1. Bolt
2. Spacer
3. Locknut
4. Spring
2.
Slide the blower-assembly peg into the pivot
hole
(Figure 17
48- and 52-inch mower deck shown
1. Blower assembly
2. Mower deck
13
Figure 16
5. Spring installed
6. Grass deflector
7. L end of spring (place
behind the deck edge
before installing the bolt)
8. J–hook end of spring
or
Figure
18).
Figure 17
3. Pivot hole
4. Blower-assembly peg
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