Recent content by pkirby

Welp, I found two things today. Neither of the front wheels were greased at all; each one took a whole small cartridge of grease. Also, whoever at Ariens put it together stripped the zerk fitting in one of the wheels, so gotta replace that. It pulled right out when I went to detach the grease...

Yeah... I'm concerned about that, too. The mower seems great aside from that, but I definitely wasn't expecting that kind of noise at all. It blew my mind when I went to another Lowes about an hour down the road and it had the exact same issue and noise. I have until December 19th to return...

Service guy said it it may be improperly or insufficiently greased bushings, but would have to take it apart to find out and then go through the warranty process. Looks like it's easy to get the wheel off and check the bushing, so I'll probably do that and regrease it later this week.

Hello all! I bought a new Ariens Ikon XD 52 recently. It cuts great, but makes this horrible metal-on-metal sound whenever I am moving. I had a Craftsman Z5200 before this and it never made this noise, so I'm having a hard time pinpointing it. It does not sound like HST whine or deck rattle...