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Deck height adjustment

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ljb

Hi folks. My 2012 LTX1046 is cutting slightly lower on the height adjustment side. The height adjustment nut is on the highest possible setting. What else could I do to level this deck? Thanks for your help.


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Tiger Small Engine

Tiger Small Engine

ljb said:
Hi folks. My 2012 LTX1046 is cutting slightly lower on the height adjustment side. The height adjustment nut is on the highest possible setting. What else could I do to level this deck? Thanks for your help.
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If the deck is actually leveled correctly, and tire pressure is correct, and you still need to raise deck a bit, try this. Put some type of bushing on the adjustment rod after removing the bolt. Adjust as needed. The bushing should raise deck more.


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ljb

The deck is leveled correctly, and the tire pressure is correct. Excuse my ignorance, but I don't understand how a bushing would work. The large adjusting nut rides in notches and moves the deck either up or down, and I have adjusted it as high as it will go. There is a bolt that locks the nut into place. Thanks for your reply though.


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Tiger Small Engine

Tiger Small Engine

ljb said:
The deck is leveled correctly, and the tire pressure is correct. Excuse my ignorance, but I don't understand how a bushing would work. The large adjusting nut rides in notches and moves the deck either up or down, and I have adjusted it as high as it will go. There is a bolt that locks the nut into place. Thanks for your reply though.
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The adjustment rod normally has threads that end, therefore you can’t keep tightening the nut. By putting a spacer, shim, washer, bushing onto the rod, you are able to keep raising the deck slightly.


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ljb

Tiger Small Engine said:
The adjustment rod normally has threads that end, therefore you can’t keep tightening the nut. By putting a spacer, shim, washer, bushing onto the rod, you are able to keep raising the deck slightly.
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Thanks again for your response. My deck does not have the hanging rods that are adjustable. As I mentioned earlier, my deck has the adjusting nut shown below. Also, the pull pins are already on the highest hole. Adjusting Nut.png


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S.A.E.

Just helped a neighbor with the BS ScrubCadet stupid leveling contraption. His 2012 USA (not AU)1050(?) would not raise enough to allow cutting thru Bermuda and eject properly and with force at a height above about 2 inches. His mower's issue was that even at highest settings possible, correctly "leveled" out, the cut height was not high enough. With the rotatable adjuster (shown in previous post) set to the max. height the steel deck's outer perimeter actually still rubbed the soil even with the height adjustment handle set to the mid-range slots. (Yes the anti-scalp wheels were even further depressed into the soil than the deck's perimeter). The lower travel of the height adjustment handle would never be needed (nor useful in any situation), and the upper travel only allowed a max. 2- 21/2 inch cut.

I am not nearby to photo which non-standard (not the factory used setting) holes in the "lift arms" that was able to finally struggle enough to pin the lift cables through, but it worked. ... well! Now the height adjust lever moves the deck perimeter from soil's surface thru about 4-5 inches (didn't measure).

BONUS: the ScrubCadet's rotatable height nut can be placed mid-travel, allowing a more true left-to-right side leveling authority.

I couldn't find a compete enough diagram in my 3 service and parts manuals to show the holes I chose. ..sorry.



In other cases; MY USUAL GO TO info channel. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=taryl+fixes+all

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ljb

S.A.E. said:
Just helped a neighbor with the BS ScrubCadet stupid leveling contraption. His 2012 USA (not AU)1050(?) would not raise enough to allow cutting thru Bermuda and eject properly and with force at a height above about 2 inches. His mower's issue was that even at highest settings possible, correctly "leveled" out, the cut height was not high enough. With the rotatable adjuster (shown in previous post) set to the max. height the steel deck's outer perimeter actually still rubbed the soil even with the height adjustment handle set to the mid-range slots. (Yes the anti-scalp wheels were even further depressed into the soil than the deck's perimeter). The lower travel of the height adjustment handle would never be needed (nor useful in any situation), and the upper travel only allowed a max. 2- 21/2 inch cut.

I am not nearby to photo which non-standard (not the factory used setting) holes in the "lift arms" that was able to finally struggle enough to pin the lift cables through, but it worked. ... well! Now the height adjust lever moves the deck perimeter from soil's surface thru about 4-5 inches (didn't measure).

BONUS: the ScrubCadet's rotatable height nut can be placed mid-travel, allowing a more true left-to-right side leveling authority.

I couldn't find a compete enough diagram in my 3 service and parts manuals to show the holes I chose. ..sorry.



In other cases; MY USUAL GO TO info channel. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=taryl+fixes+all
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I have read your post several times and still haven’t figured out what non-standard hole you are talking about. Did you drill a new hole?


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S.A.E.

ljb said:
I have read your post several times and still haven’t figured out what non-standard hole you are talking about. Did you drill a new hole?
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Though I thought about drilling, there were several pre-drilled holes not being used by the factory. I'll be back to the machine sometime soon and will follow up with a pic. I wish I had a photo in my possession to demonstrate.

What issues are you experiencing?
thanks
Scot


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ljb

S.A.E. said:
Though I thought about drilling, there were several pre-drilled holes not being used by the factory. I'll be back to the machine sometime soon and will follow up with a pic. I wish I had a photo in my possession to demonstrate.

What issues are you experiencing?
thanks
Scot
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Thanks Scot. My original post explains it.


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ljb

ljb said:
Thanks Scot. My original post explains it.
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In the meantime, I lowered the cable pins to the lowest hole on the lift arms and that made it worse so back to square one.


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S.A.E.

ljb said:
In the meantime, I lowered the cable pins to the lowest hole on the lift arms and that made it worse so back to square one.
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Sorry, I only had your most recent post in view at the time of my response to you about the hole location: self drilled or not. Will reload the thread now that I know you were the original poster


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S.A.E.

ljb said:
Hi folks. My 2012 LTX1046 is cutting slightly lower on the height adjustment side. The height adjustment nut is on the highest possible setting. What else could I do to level this deck? Thanks for your help.
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Are you satisfied with the range/travel offered by the height adjustment lever at the side of the seat?
thanks


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S.A.E.

ljb said:
Hi folks. My 2012 LTX1046 is cutting slightly lower on the height adjustment side. The height adjustment nut is on the highest possible setting. What else could I do to level this deck? Thanks for your help.
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Until I get you some pics, ....are you satisfied that the deck raise handle, it's mechanisms and rods below the seat, the cable lift pulleys, the lift arms, and the cables themselves are in spec? (correct, not bent, not stretched, correctly bushed, and properly routed?).

That the blades themselves are EXACTLY equal distant as measured from the underside of the deck to each tip? (takes out the possibility of incorrect spindles, bent blades, wrong blades, incorrectly installed/sharpened blades, etc.....)

thanks


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ljb

S.A.E. said:
Until I get you some pics, ....are you satisfied that the deck raise handle, it's mechanisms and rods below the seat, the cable lift pulleys, the lift arms, and the cables themselves are in spec? (correct, not bent, not stretched, correctly bushed, and properly routed?).

That the blades themselves are EXACTLY equal distant as measured from the underside of the deck to each tip? (takes out the possibility of incorrect spindles, bent blades, wrong blades, incorrectly installed/sharpened blades, etc.....)

thanks
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I have checked everything you mentioned and all seems fine but when I placed the pins in the lowest hole, the deck lift handle went to the 4th position from the top before the deck topped out. That makes the deck much lower than before, when the lift handle would go all the way up. The issue is only with the adjusting nut being in the highest position and still cutting lower on that side.


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S.A.E.

ljb said:
I have checked everything you mentioned and all seems fine but when I placed the pins in the lowest hole, the deck lift handle went to the 4th position from the top before the deck topped out. That makes the deck much lower than before, when the lift handle would go all the way up. The issue is only with the adjusting nut being in the highest position and still cutting lower on that side.
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Thank you for that information. I understand that in position 4 (from the highest setting), the deck will not raise any further. I might re-visit that issue later after viewing my neighbor's machine. I would be interest to know that is preventing further "up" travel of the deck (unable to move the height adjust lever to a higher positon)... the deck "top" actually coming into contact? with what? the cables not being able to be pulled further thru the pulleys ?

Let me get eyes on the machine.... within a week....
thanks


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ljb

S.A.E. said:
Thank you for that information. I understand that in position 4 (from the highest setting), the deck will not raise any further. I might re-visit that issue later after viewing my neighbor's machine. I would be interest to know that is preventing further "up" travel of the deck (unable to move the height adjust lever to a higher positon)... the deck "top" actually coming into contact? with what? the cables not being able to be pulled further thru the pulleys ?

Let me get eyes on the machine.... within a week....
thanks
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Thanks for your help Scot. I will wait for your response.


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evh

Make sure the lever that raises and lowers the deck is not bent. I had an LTX1045 and I seem to remember that being an issue.


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