A bunch of frustration and trial and error and finally giving it all I had lol but it really looks almost impossible by looking wiht smallest amount of room to deal with.
You cannot access the top of the middle swivel pulley that the rear and front belt attact to from above no way there is no cut out panel to remove. Has to be done from below both rear and front belts.I have removed and replaced the rear pulley several times but never the front it is something...
Here goes .The old one was worn down enough to remove and not so bad. THis is wintout have the center console panel to remove. Insturtions were vague with the mowere as usual. This is just for the lower front drive belt only but the rear has to be removed also and its easy as the instructions...
Old one off and new one on good and bad I re injured my rotator cuff bad but the damn thing is on. Oh yeah I did learn a trick and now I can chnage in 15 minutes without having a center console to remove but I am keeping it to myself since I got only 1 response from here. smh
This is a 1997 pro power 12 hp model 452 transmatic. I have turned wrenches all my life my dad being a transmission mechanic himself but this machine has me whipped. I can get the real drive belt off have several times. The pain in the arse is the front drive belt which has to come off same way...
Thanks> I am only seein gthe one bolt from the bottom that holds the pulleys on . I always have to loosen that one bolt not takin git off but that allows mwe to remove the top belt for the rear but I cannot get the front drive belt off the same way but I will keep looking.
I have it down to removing the belt. It will not slide over the variable speed pulley. I removed the rear belt as instructions say but the drive belt has to be removed over those pulleys.Thought I had done this before with no problems but gues not. This mower power pro has no center plare to...