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Is the throttle plate wide open with the engine dead ? It should be .

Research is showing the aveage price of a riding lawn mower is $2,450 . In your price range i'd be looking for a lo hour John Deere X350 pre owned trade in at a dealer or at an estate sale .

The rack and pinion steering system wears at an accelerated rate because those weren't designed to be lubricated . OH , but they can be lubed and they have been on every mower i've owned with a steering wheel .

Yes you could , but i suspect you'd have more success putting tooth paste back in the tube . :D

If you have a capable someone to look at the drive belt system while the mower is stalled but still running as it would normally while moving , you may find there are 2 belts on the cvt system but one belt is all that's moving . If so the variable speed system needs to be rehabilitated or...

Sometimes the flywheel key will shear but seems yours is just fine . More often on a direct drive blade opposed to a belt driven blade .

And please don't tell me how to communicate . I'm not the one that caused that feeling about dealerships . Buy 2 new lawn tractors same day , and post sale of 2 new X-350's , to the tune of nearly $10,000 , and have the feeling the dealer stepped in your face with a leather boot heel and...

The shop delivered but will the shop require you to find a way to take it back for repair ?

I often use jumper cables from battery directly to starter to eliminate some of the failure possibilities . If that fails to crank the engine , move on to having the old battery load tested . You can still try the jumper cables to determine if there is a weak component in the system that's...

Maybe from the 80's considering the price of the belt . There are briggs guys that have briggs info. from the engine plate https://www.vbeltguys.com/products/murray-38608x12b-riding-lawn-mower-replacement-belt

Many mowers have a 3 blade deck . Maybe i'm missing how a clamp blade blocker works on the center blade of a 3 blade deck .

That's right , never had a blade come off .

Shop Made Blade Blockers Being an old farm boy on a budget and a long way from the city life , i tend to make do with i have available . Building a rectangle box about 2" X 3 " inside measurements and approx. 1 ft long using 1/4" plywood works . An alternative shop made is a 1 ft. piece of...

I had no reason to add a anti blow out kit that didn't seem to have eone from the factory and hi-lift blades was considered , but I was never able to find hi-lift blades for the LA-135 mower . The X-350 i now have doesn't have any mulch ready anything and came with hi- lift blades . I use it...

I once had a LA-135 -- 42" that didn't discharge as well as i would like so i modified the deck by removing un-necessary hardware which accomplished 2 things . It discharged better and made a world of difference to clean . In the front ubderside of the deck there was a piece of metal i called a...

You choose . Grade , thread count , material , waxed etc . It may take awhile . :rolleyes...

Lay it in the seat and you won't forget to replace it .

I'm morning person so when the soil moisture at root depth is below 25% is when and early even if i need my head lamp .

We can understand why they're probably not available . That would be about like a car dealer salesman attempting to sell my wife a 3 on the tree or a 4 on the floor . :rolleyes:

A vicious circle . What's my password , create new password , log in , you're already logged in , join . ROTF :D

Possibly the closest we could get is one with the variable 7 speed shift like MTD made and it seems like maybe Troybuilt adopted that system or maybe MTD built Troybuilt . Or i have a barn find Murray from back in the 80's that two 20's will buy .

If your adapter is like the one in reply #6 , loose just a tiny isn't what's causing the leak . That's not how O rings work . Solve the problem yourself with a Viton O ring .

If your lawn is a cultivar that goes dormant in winter months , round-up the lawn for any early spring weeds before the dormancy fades into the sunset . After the lawn greens there are several products on the market for those applications .

Buy a Viton O ring . If the manufacturer didn't chamfer the edge of the hole in the pan to prevent damage when the O ring is inserted , at least knock the sharp edge off with a half round file and / or emery tape .

OH BOY , you catch on fast .

With a maybe 0.002" feeler gauge between the rocker lever and valve stem and on compression stroke you can tell if there is an ACR bump and at what time in the stroke .

You people are causing yourselves a wagon full of un-necessary problems with those impacts . Oil the threads , tighten the nuts with a box wrench about 12" long until they feel tight and go mow . Those manufacturers are specifying those ridiculous torque values because of liability .

Have anyone determined you're being taken for a ride on this post ?

i'd like to see a small application of anti-seize smeared around the brake rotor spline too . i've had to make a puller to remove those .

The only reason the axle needs grease is to prevent rust . Your mower has never had the rack and pinion gears teeth greased and the pinion gear bearing has never been oiled . Your manual will never mention that . John Deere would rather you bring it to them for that repair for 3-4 hundred bucks .

These folks may possibly have a HI- Lift blade that fits your toro. https://www.ereplacementparts.com/hilift-blade-p-1583213.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAr5iQBhCsARIsAPcwROND8t7mhdl_t8B-LP1L54zqUMZ6P4lRvFwl7LLTgOvupaJ_kS6fCZAaAmB1EALw_wcB

In an attempt to impress some unknowing customer is why grease fittings are installed to grease bearings that were not meant to be greased .

When a ring breaks removing I determine it wasn't of much value anyway and time to replace it. Lowe's shows brass sheet material that can be made into a entering sleeve . In the natural gas compression world it would be called a horse **** to protect pressure and wiper packing while installing...

This is how poor people lift a lawn tractor . They use the engine power of the 2 pieces of equipment involved . A truck tail gate and a pair of saw horses will do it . If I need parts, just roll it back into the truck and take it along . If there is a question on what parts needed i have...

Ever been put on hold this long ? I know the feeling .

Murrays were prone to brake sticking . I put a bug in a cousin's ear about a Murray garden tractor he was wanting to bid on at auction. It had to be dragged from a shed to sell and the quick verbal diagnosis was " the transmission is locked up " . A lawn tractor that would normally sell for...

If the belts and other mechanical s are equal, the ability to discharge the cuttings would be suspect.

This is the schematic for a Murray tractor rider from around 1988. Maybe it's close enough to help or it may be the exact . I'd like to see you kill it with the electric system rather than the choke.

Thanks At first was only going to ignore 1 but by the time I finished reading suggestions I had reason to ignore the second.

Does this site have an ignore to click on ? If so could someone direct me to the spot to click on ?

It appears I've been corrected again. How much I can take I'm not certain so I'll ask my psychiatrist.

Carlisle usually has about as good of products as anyone else. A leak on the side of the tire is usually suspect of a tire cut and will pinch a tube by tire flex until it fails no matter the brand. Examine it carefully inside because it may need a Boot.

I would suspect any water in the bottom of a gas tank with pure gas would be subject to freezing and prevent flow, in some instances, but possibly not with 10 % ethanol ?

Have you disconnected the kill switch to determine if it may be faulty?

Have you ever done a water test on a gas container ? We've read that water story ever since alcohol was part of our gasoline history and some of a lesser story before alcohol.

For 15 years you've been doing everything correct; please don't keep secrets like that from us.

Determining warranty -- without the technician's words being written in that same legal language the manufacturer uses you won't have a leg to stand on when push comes to shove determining waranty .

Being we've wandered way off topic from BOLTS to VOLTS, what volts did the telephone we had generate? We could answer it or take it fishing.

I abandoned lawn tractor battery bolts about 20 years ago. Heavy duty C-Clamps are convenient, quick and provide 2 handles to carry the battery when necessary.

Including the water and crud in the bottom of the gas container. That's a really smart computer. I'll take mine to a disposal.