Recent content by rice4me

Grinding can be caused by misalignment of pinion and wheel gear. Had Lawn Boy with wheel gear wear. Pivot arm (wheel mounting plate toed-in as the result of height adjust arm pressure) was not parallel with the mower body. Corrected by installing a simple "nut stop" to the rear of the wheel...

The height adjust arm is causing the pinion not to mesh correctly with the wheel gear. It causes the wheel mounting plate to toe-in to the front. I bet your wheel gear is steel. Originally the wheel gear was plastic. In that case the wheel gear teeth wore out on the edge. When people started...

A question. If you remove the wheel, does it have a dust cover? If so remove that cover and reinstall the wheel and see if the gear and pinion mesh correctly. You can raise the front of the mower and rest it on something so you can move the wheel by hand. If the pinion and wheel gear are only...