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The belt is off. It was easier than expected. For anyone doing this down the road. 1) unfasten the spring to the belt idler pulley arm from the frame (hint: reattach with a 3" loop of chord using a screw driver to protect your hands while stretching the spring) 2 ) remove the idler pulley from...

I see. Thank you for your input on this. You’ve been very helpful and I appreciate it. Time to turn some wrenches.

Right, so 5 bolts to free bracket and 6 to free axle. Riddle me this: if the 3 bolts to the variable pulley are removed, does that free that pulley to remove the belt, and if so, and I can get the flange bolt off the large pulley, then I would not need to drop the axle?

It appears to me this bracket turns 90 degrees and is sandwiched and through bolted from under the base of the vari pulley. Maybe my eyes deceive me?

That is a different bracket than what’s on mine. It’s a bigger problem than a couple more bolts as I elaborate in a subsequent reply.

Correct. It bolts both under the pulley and to the frame, but beyond that, it is bent to overlap from above so isn’t clear to drop the axle even if unbolted. Should I cut it with angle grinder? I could weld it back together.

I I was afraid this would be the case. Couple questions: 1) What’s the best way to immobilize the transmission pulley to take a shot at its retaining nut? 2) there appears to be a bracket/arm which hooks under the transaxle which would prevent the transmission from dropping even if the 4 bolts...

247.288841 LT2000 Anyone ever replaced the short 41” spring tensioned v belt to transmission on one of these mowers? The current belt is worn/stretched causing the long ground drive belt to ride against the spring loaded tensioner arm which carries the pulley for this belt. This belt is...