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That's why I'm hoping that it's the battery; don't want to have to pull the flywheel. BTW, the battery's dated May 2018; maybe the Minder deserves some credit for that. The battery that came with the mower when I bought it failed while it was still under warranty. That's when I bought my first...

Thanks, Bert. Battery Minder is a charger that at least claims to switch over to "microsecond-pulse mode" once the battery is fully charged. I leave it hooked up to the mower whenever it's not in use. The wiring diagram in the book that came with it calls it an alternator, and I don't know any...

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All the model numbers are in the pdf. I keep this mower on a Battery Minder when I'm not using it. The first time I ran it this year, it cranked ok and I mowed for about an hour and stopped it to blow the clippings off the deck. Then it wouldn't crank; not even a click from the solenoid. I...

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The file holding the picture is too big to upload to this website. There are places you can find online that will shrink the file size for you. Picture will still look good. Your file's name probably ends .jpg or .png. See what it is and search for a compressor for tha kind of file. E.G. "jpg...

Newbie here. Thought that it might be a good idea to get some of that so I did a search for "CRC dry Lithium Chassis grease" and got no hits. Could you post maybe an item number or maybe a picture of the container? got lots of hits for lithium grease bur "dry" and "chassis" were a problem. thanks

The fan and the pulley are fine. So I don't need to worry about this gap? I thought about trying to tap the speed washer down tighter using a socket of the right size to tap on. Haven't tried that yet.

Aha! Several places on line have them. Thanks In the mean time, that's why I keep a stack of old coat hangers around.

Mowed the front yard with it yesterday. Everything back to normal. Thanks for the help.

I'd like to grease this tractor(Fig 1). The lube chart (Fig 2) shows 5 points to grease: the steering sector and 2 on each of the front wheels. The steering sector is easy to finds are the spindle zerks. The zerks for the front wheel bearings must be behind the hubcaps (Fig 3). Can you tell me...

Absolutely, and I have no idea. I'm hoping that somebody here knows. I was just riding along and cutting and suddenly it stopped moving for no apparent reason. Thanks for the replies.

Not sure that would have dislodged this stuff. Not dust; this was dirt and had taken the shape of the frame pieces and was stuck tightly.

Craftsman 917.289240 has gap under bypass arm on transaxle. The transaxle has a hook sticking out the back of the tractor frame. The hook connects to this arm and, when pulled disconnects the wheels from the drive so the tractor can be pushed by hand. The lever looks like it should fit down...

Craftsman 917.289240 The cover for the side opening in the deck is held on by two of these strap/hook fasteners The other one lost its hook and tore the rubber in the process. I can't find it in the parts list and don't know where to ask now that Sears is gone. Any good advice appreciated.