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Yeah now that I know what it is and I'm reading what you're saying that's the noise it's a scraping noise it's not that easy to bend that belt guide back away from the pulley I just don't want to break anything with heavier equipment let's say.

I just wanted to give an update on that rattling noise so it turns out the front left belt guide is in close contact with the pulley for the mower deck and that pulley comes off the drive shaft so I don't know if it's supposed to make contact if somehow u-shaped belt guide was bent but that...

So I put the belt back on over the belt guide the one for way up front the drive shaft mower deck pulley and the noise goes away completely while rotating the flywheel. It should be the case where when everything is correctly configured there's a noise when you remove the belt over that guide...

So I tried what you said and nothing changed and so I tried to kind of get on the ground and make a long story short something to do with the drive shaft the pulley + the mower deck belt so I just slightly unhook the belt so to speak + the noise went away so there's something going on and I have...

Hello thank you very much I will try that tomorrow. Jim

I changed my mind it's not a rattling noise it's more like a wild boar but it's real unfortunately.

If you have a list of eight things or 10 things that it could be I have that list already thanks on that but I'm interested in knowing exactly what it is so if you don't know that I already got the general list or even if you can narrow it down to two things that would be fantastic truly Jim

So here's a video I made today so the background story is Friday I started noticing white smoke coming out of the muffler took off the air filter and there was white smoke coming out of that I was thinking it's probably a head gasket so I took off the cylinder head and removed the spark plug and...

"Using JB Weld and Duct tape on a Craftsman. You might be overqualified as a design engineer for Craftsman and Murray.". Forest maybe you picked up on my level of frustration with why I have to even mess with this stuff so I figured duct tape is good enough if it can't fix it why put more...

I did reread this, and the actual frame is blocking it. I often wondered about switching wheel/tire (s) to larger ones? Or maybe keep the wheels and get larger tires? I watched all of the video just now. One thing I did notice even with Cub Cadet is the belt can get an angle ( not the best...

Wait hold up you got what I meant incorrect I didn't mean 5 in I meant setting five it's just a number on the side of the machine it translates into maybe 2 in or 3 in I apologize if that wasn't clear I don't mean 5 in height to cut the grass. This Craftsman LT 2000 has a numerical guide on the...

Thank you so much for your reply here's what I can tell you on setting one I'm cutting 2 in into the dirt . On setting 2 , I'm scraping the topsoil. I On setting three I'm scalping the lawn the tires are filled with the appropriate amount of air and I looked this up several years ago like how...

But one thing I don't know if this can be done but this website they have a poll for deck height in other words on this machine Craftsman lc2000 you have a range from 1 one the lowest setting up to six the highest setting so normally for me anyways I cut the lawn in position 5 + that should be...

I plan on watching all 23 minutes Tomorrow

Forest thank you very much for the video I got through 6 minutes of it the guys like he could have courses on this stuff it's so thorough but it's 23 minutes long I do realize that the the only thing I could do other than you know replacing the deck is to use the JB weld and so far that's worked...

I'm afraid to tell you how I fixed it because there are people that actually know how to weld and I haven't learned that skill but here's a way I thought about the problem welding is more or less creating a better bond with metal so I chose JB weld two-part epoxy and I smeared it all around...

The title of the finished product is, " I am not the man but this ain't bad". The person who said sometimes that mount for the pulley that square notch cause a major problem + fixing that was instrumental. Jim

Rivets you motivated me to do the right thing stay tuned. Jim

I have considered your suggestion on numerous occasions, the man I want to see is 15-20 miles away. He IS THE MAN. "4 of the mans" have left locally, they all had thriving biz, featuring sales and services, they are all GONE. HD, Lowes ect has replaced them. THE MAN told me it would cost me...

Nice. What are your thoughts on this? Order A 1.) Part # 57 Tower Lawn & Garden Equipment Head Bolt 817000616 2.) Part # 56 - Husqvarna Spacer Retainer 532199092 3.) Part #55 - Lawn Tractor Blade Idler Pulley Arm 531169401 Order B 1.) Part # 57 Tower Lawn & Garden Equipment Head Bolt 817000616...

The bolt is not in question by me. Where that spacer goes IS IN QUESTION BY ME. I am using "the bolt" as a frame of reference. The bolt is fine. I found "the bolt" to be: "Tower Lawn & Garden Equipment Head Bolt 817000616" <--- I came to the same conclusion as you did. This has nothing to do...

Here are 2 images, one from Repair Clinic and one from Sears parts for Model # 917289070 Official Craftsman tractor. The images contradict one another. Who is right?

It sounds good when you're sitting on the machine you engage the blade s + here's what's actually going on I don't know what to say it is laughable I'm laughing even though I should be crying all this work. I post this figuring someone's going to say what is that or they might say yeah that's...

Doofy, Your skills with welding are something that I've always wanted to learn and I've looked briefly at some sort of rig that's like $200 to $300 from places like harbor freight. But based on the problem you had and your solution that seems like the way to go however I've been thinking that a...

Who you talking about Barney Fife? I'll pass.

Okay I appreciate your answer and I understand your frustration Right now I'm just trying to get the thing to run and it's definitely not a bolt because the bolt's brand new came right out of a box but regardless I get what you're saying

Johner, I found the belt and so I cut it and so I used duct tape to tape it basically to a kitchen countertop area and it turns out it's 99 in long it was supposed to be 100.25 in I don't get it. And furthermore it's a little bit too long + that's because of the 1/2-in width where it basically...

Johner, Thanks for the reply I don't know if I still have the old belt because the one that is partially shredded I'm still using and I don't know where the other one went it was from last year. I could tell you according to the product description from when I bought this belt it's 100.25 in by...

See I don't have those skills so you know not much I can do there but I believe you.

Rivets you have no idea the things I've found so with the other small idler pulley and with the mower deck completely separated from the chassis that bolt you can only tighten it so tight otherwise it interferes with the action of the spring so if you tighten it as much as you can reasonably and...

For me I see no other solution I don't have the skills to somehow braise some sort of shim to get the angle back. And the truth is this mower deck is of such quality that duct tape is clearly appropriate for it. Years ago Amoco used to have a commercial where the guy says I always wanted to work...

So if the pulley doesn't track the way it should this is how I solve the problem with duct tape I put multiple layers directly onto the mower deck frame on one side of it + it works now as far as tracking parallel to the mower deck so hopefully this solves one of the problems with constant ring...

Okay here's my final idea I'm going to take duct tape maybe one strip maybe two strips I don't know + attach it to the underneath side of the belt guide on the side that it needs to go and then lock everything down and see if it fixes the problem with the pulley that is not tracking parallel to...

I'm not sure what I'm actually uploading but what I did was I took a piece of cardboard and I put it on one side and it goes underneath the belt guide and a washer and I tried to introduce an angle that overall would make the pulley parallel to the mower deck but that's not the final version the...

Hi Gord, thanks for your reply I am working on that. I did find you can't actually tighten down the small idler pulley ARM to much because you end up preventing the spring from working. If you tighten it very tight, here is what happens. The arm that the small idler mounts to becomes perfectly...

Here is my latest idea, remove the customer supplied washer meaning me, and somehow put a shim maybe on one side like 1/2 a washer and then tighten everything down? Somehow get that carriage bolt to tilt in a slightly different direction but the mower deck frame is unchanged?

OK here is the latest image from 30 mins ago. I see what Freddie21 wrote and so this pulley is tilted, I could see it when I was outside. I do have a perfectly good spare also. When I was looking at it, I can't bend the frame but I was thinking about a shim that might be tilted that will square...

And the reason why it's such a big deal is because when I tighten that bolt down which has the Husqvarna special washer below it it defeats the spring entirely you can't move that pulley anymore which means you have to keep it kind of loose which means there's vertical play in that bracket this...

So I took a screenshot of repair clinic they have it set up exactly the way I do. In fact repair clinic has it 57,56,55 but Sears has it 57,55,56. I have it the way repair clinic has it.

Okay I just went back outside again it's 7:00 p.m. on Friday night and I found the small idler pulley is attached to this metal bracket that metal bracket has a gigantic hole inside that hole needs to be the Husqvarna special washer and then on top of that the bolt goes straight through that the...

OK I messed up. It needs to be 34,59,145, and 40. I have some of it correct. I have the small idler pulley where it needs to be and the belt guide too. I got 2 right and 2 wrong. So Sears is correct on this I read it wrong. I have that spacer which only works with the tensioner spring where it...

I have it the way the parts diagram shows it, and i think it could be wrong? T or F?

This is the small idler pulley side, and inside that yellow rectangle I have that special raised washer. I think this is on the wrong side entirely. The diagram has a simple bolt going up towards the sky and then a locking nut on the top side. Maybe a few washers too. Also I can tighten that nut...

Here is what is mower deck for the LT2000 riding mower. I plan on checking everything today. 1.) All pulleys need to rotate in the same plane on the mower deck so make sure of this, and currently not the case. 2.) Check for, "ease of spin". I replaced all of them but can check this again. The...

Thanks Forest. I have generally speaking adopted the policy, "Don't learn safety by accident". Thanks, Jim

Well I have been battling some neck and shoulder nerve damage for a few months so a lot of how this goes depends on that no fun when you're doing some work on this thing and your whole shoulder is tingling and is numb but I think if I can move past all that and it heals reasonably well then yeah...

Here is the video of the mower deck blades engaging and no ringing noise which is significantly better than it was maybe it still needs some work for other things also. Thanks, Jim

Hey forest it's singing like your buddy Ronnie not ringing anymore let's see how long it lasts but I need to make some other changes with the deck completely removed from the frame

Mr rivets to answer your question the other ones do not have that nylon on the inside of the nut but the brand new ones that I'm using do so I don't know what you're getting to about that but I'm using the nylon inset on the nut and that's for both idler pulleys the small one and the large one