All 42" Sd created equal?

[travisg84 1]

I've got a a 42" sd deck that was "seized up" when I bought it. After I got it home and pulled the cover off and cleaned it up and got it spinning. Then I decided to throw it under my 312 and see just how bad the bearings were, it spun fine for about 10 seconds and I found out how bad the deck belt was (I think there are pieces of the belt in my neighbors yard . My question is there is no idenification on the deck as to what year it is, the tensioner set up is different from my other deck which is an 87. It still is attach-a-matic of course. Do all the of those style decks use the same length belts?

[tarcoleo 119]

Don't know about all 42" decks. You can find out what length belt you need for

your new deck with a length of rope looped around all the sheaves and measuring

length of same. The trick is that the rope, depending on its size, may not ride in

the sheaves to the exact same depth as the belt.

Therefore, with your other mounted deck, measure the length with the same size

rope on that deck and determine any correction between the rope's measured

length and the length of the proper belt which you have and already know. Apply

that correction factor to the new deck.

Its a little involved but it works-- it did for me anyway.

swamp yankee

:thumbs2:

[mcwh1950 2]

travis take the belt off of the other 42" deck and see if it fit this deck i think the belt should be about 86 inch long.

[tarcoleo 119]

Why didn't I think of that?

The procedure is still a good one in other instances.

swamp yankee

[travisg84 1]

I didn't think of it either. I'll get out there one day after work and take a look.