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First, I would recommend you contact Boiling Springs Small Engine Repair on Highway 9. They are a husqvarna dealer and may be willing to help, but I doubt it. Second, find out where Husqvarna US headquarters is located and file a formal complaint with the Better Business Bureau that covers that...

Don’t let your wife on it. You may never get it back.

These “never drain your oil” mowers/engines are nuts. I would never buy one. I’m one of those who over maintains my equipment. An example is my backup portable generator.. I change oil in it once a year - regardless. I occasionally start it, bring it up to temperature and test the output...

Several years ago, I bought an oil vacuum extractor. A plastic tank that has an internal manual pump that creates a vacuum. With the included hoses/tubing you’re able to remove all of the old oil without any mess. I’ve been fortunate enough it also works really well on my truck and car. Costs...

I did install a two stage air filter but had never thought of removing the housing to access the cooling fins. Thank you very much for an extremely helpful piece of information.

I have the 75747 with my ride I guess going on my third year. My property isn’t level and was a bit disappointed with the traction so I upsized my tires and wheels. I purchased mine with the bagging system and immediately added an hour meter. I’ve also fabricated a chute blocker to keep...

Yes I did complete the installation and am extremely pleased with the results. Can’t say that I have identified any negatives from the changes I’ve made. It has provided a noticeable improvement in the overall traction. Especially when wet.

Hey, just asking honest questions and have conversations trying to gather legitimate and accurate information on how better maintain and utilize my lawn equipment.

Your comment seemed valid to me but a couple of questions still lingered. If they’re so damaging, Why would they include a washout port and why no caution statement in the owners manual. So I started looking around and found a video put out by Toro which states that you should washout the deck...

Toro offers an enhancement kit for my 42” fabricated deck which I considered. I’m confident that it will improve collection of clippings. My concern, and the reason that I didn’t purchase the kit, was it will create areas where clippings will collect and lay on the baffles (like small...

I think that I’d try it with the bags removed rather than the top chute. It will likely direct the debris straight down and back. I think removing the top chute would put a lot of debris on and potentially in your engine. Either way airborne dust is going to be really high. Suggest a dust mask.

I’m going to mulch my leaves using my chute blocker then run over the areas again with my bagger installed. The overall volume of the leaves should be significantly less. At least that’s what I’ve read on some YouTube posts.

I have the same unit. Luckily, mine came with the strap which I rarely use. It’s a pain to stretch down far enough to pull over the end of the steel hold down rod. I don’t think I have that much leakage of clippings to make a difference. The strap needs to be longer for reasonable use.

Found it. Thanks for the link. Looks like the whole setup would be around $250. I’m sure it works better than mine but I’ve got less than $50 invested. I have a bagger for mine as well but prefer to alternate bagging/not. Get some of the clippings recycled back into the lawn especially now...

Ok, now I understand. Good luck on getting this sorted out. Tough to beat free..

Have you tried looking for a wheel/tire set that might be available at Tractor Supply or Walmart or even a mower dealer where you could measure the offset to see if or how it would work? I went to a toro dealer and measured the combo size that I wanted. Then located the set for that mower on...

One thing you have to be aware of is the offset of the wheel. In other words, when you mount the new tire and wheel, will it rub the frame or fender? That’s the issue I encountered resulting in the requirement for 2” spacers to clear frame.

My apologies, I didn’t receive notice that additional responses came in and just stumbled on these two questions. Here’s a screenshot of the tire/wheels I ordered. It gives the part numbers all. The spacers I ended up using are two inch. Got them from Amazon if I remember correctly. I just...

How do you open/close your chute blocker? I built mine with a piece of 22 ga. steel from Lowes using a locking throttle cable from NAPA.

Here is what the final looks like. Fabricated from a small sheet of 22 ga. that I picked up at Lowes. The throttle cable came from NAPA. I had no idea what length I needed but got really lucky. I ran the cable through the frame into a big loop under the floorboard.

At this midpoint to completion, I have come to the conclusion that I won’t need a flat sheet of steel covering the top opening, the chute blocker at an open angle will effectively cover that area and I think minimize the safety issues. Everything is bolt up, I don’t have access to equipment to...

The chute blocker that I’m fabricating is going to have two parts. One part is going to be a flat piece of steel that covers the open top of the deck and will be stationary while the top part will be used to block discharge of the clippings. When I rotate the blocker up, the flat steel will...

The plastic chute will flip up and down. The issue is regarding safety. I have included a picture of the discharge area of the deck with the diverter removed. You can see that the one blade is largely exposed and to me sets up an extremely unsafe condition. I don’t have a clue why Toro would...

The mower picture I use with my account is a picture of the mower that I have. I have fabricated a chute blocker template from some old thin aluminum (gutter splash guard) stock that I had. Went to Lowes today and picked up a small sheet of 22 gauge steel that I’ll cut down. I’ll see how this...

I typically do that but have some areas where the landscape beds set across from each other making it impossible to not discharge clippings into the beds.

Toro makes a mulching kit with baffles and discharge cover plate as you’ve described. What I’m trying to accomplish is to prevent discharged grass clippings from going into my wife’s flower beds as I go past. There are several areas in my lawn where I can’t prevent that from happening (beds...

On my Toro mower, the foot lift kit is an optional accessory which I purchased and installed myself. The deck height adjustment, as provided by the factory, is performed using a handle which has a slotted index. And I concur, I’m out of this thread as well. I hope everyone has a great day.

Foot Lift Kit The foot lift kit allows EZTrak mower operators to easily raise or lower the mower deck without having to use their hands. This attachment is great for quickly raising or lowering the deck when unexpected obstacles like tree roots or rocks appear in the mowing path. spotted this...

You use the pedal to lift the deck when we get into a situation where it’s going scalp the grass. So it’s just a quick lift then right back down to the standard cutting height as you pass across the high spot.

I have the same issue but at this point haven’t considered looking for a solution. I’ll take a look to see if I can come up with some ideas. I do think any changes will need to be capable of handling what I consider to be the fairly high pressures you put on that pedal to get the deck to move...

I’ve been looking for a chute blocker or plans to build one myself. I really don’t want to spend $300 for one so I expect that I’ll need to build it myself. Has anyone seen a blocker that I can get for less than $200 or maybe a video showing details for one that will work?