Lifetime Deck Warranty

[GrumpyCat]

Yes, pop the seals out, wash the bearing, grease, reinstall the seals. Do not spin the bearing with your air hose, but it is a good thing to use compressed air to clean it out.

 

[bertsmobile1]

FWIW
I use marine grade lithium soap grease in spindle bearings
Usually zz bearings on the top & 2rs on the bottom
Grease till it extrudes from the shields
Logic is that air can get released from the cavity inside the spindle housing and if the housing is full then there is nowhere for moisture to accumulate
A hot 2 RS bearing will suck water through the dust seal as it cools down particularly if you have been using those silly wash out ports

 

[MW1961]

I just picked the mower upat Johnson's ACE Hardware, Wellford SC 29385
864 539-3485. They said that Husqvarna would not honor the lifetime deck warranty. This is the second deck failure. I owned a Murray for 14 years and a Ariens for 8 years with no issues cutting the same lawn . WTF.
I Purchased a TS 348 Lawn tractor new on 8-26-2019 with a lifetime mower deck warranty from Johnson's ACE Hardware,10409 E Greenville HWY, Wellford SC 29385,
Registered it that day with Husqvarna. Model 960430230 00, ser # 121917A001120.
The small protection moon shaped metal piece at mower deck ejection area broke loose in Nov 2020. The piece of metal wrapped up blades and severely damage mower deck. I was told by Husqvarna to take it to where I purchased it.
Ed at Husqvarna Warranty dept was contacted by Ace Hardware store and warranty repair was turned down.
I was stuck with a over $1,400 repair bill.

I dropped off the mower again 12 May 23 with exact same break in weld. I stopped before major damaged occurred. I can not believe that I am going to have to buy another deck within 4 years of purchase. I will pursue reimbursement...no luck last time. Beware of B.S.

take it to a welding shop let them fix and modify it so it won’t break again! I feel your pain I was going to buy the big husquvarna tractor my dealer know me and that I use it like a small farm tractor he told me it’s not going to hold up even though the husky rep told me it was the heaviest garden tractor I could buy today! To get a good tractor know looking at $12K ridiculous I have a 27 year old Murray 21 hp garden tractor things a beast!

 

[crackerjack]

I bought a Murray 42" (?) riding mower many years ago. After welding the cracks in the deck multiple times, I had a sheet metal shop make me two decks out of 16 ga cold rolled steel. I put the wheels, spindles and all else from the original deck on one and used it for many years until the rest of the mower was trash. Never had another problem with the deck. I ended up using the spare deck for a table.

 

[Forest#2]

Grumpycat:
Yes, pop the seals out, wash the bearing, grease, reinstall the seals. Do not spin the bearing with your air hose, but it is a good thing to use compressed air to clean it out.

Right about spinning bearings with compressed air. Guy could even loose a finger.

But;

This is my question.

Star Tech said this about injecting lots of grease into the center spindle housing and popping out the upper plastic seal of RS type bearings
That why they should be using 6204-ZZ bearings instead of the 6204-2RS ones. Those can be greased with both shields in place.

I asked
Are you indicating that the internal housing spindle grease will migrate through the steel inner shield of the ZZ bearing and actually do some good???? I have in part drilled a small hole in the ZZ steel shields and injected grease and then seal the hole to prevent dust/dirt getting inside.
The steel shield is not easily removed nor is it re-useable.

 

[Laabk2]

I have a Cub Cadet that has tapered bearings in the spindle and grease fittings. Easy to grease it every two or three mowings. My mower has just over 700 hours and they are still original bearings. Never did understand putting sealed bearings in a spindle and grease fittings too. Have never tried the ZZ bearings, usually just pull the seals and tell them to grease it more often.

 

[moparjoe]

I just picked the mower upat Johnson's ACE Hardware, Wellford SC 29385
864 539-3485. They said that Husqvarna would not honor the lifetime deck warranty. This is the second deck failure. I owned a Murray for 14 years and a Ariens for 8 years with no issues cutting the same lawn . WTF.
I Purchased a TS 348 Lawn tractor new on 8-26-2019 with a lifetime mower deck warranty from Johnson's ACE Hardware,10409 E Greenville HWY, Wellford SC 29385,
Registered it that day with Husqvarna. Model 960430230 00, ser # 121917A001120.
The small protection moon shaped metal piece at mower deck ejection area broke loose in Nov 2020. The piece of metal wrapped up blades and severely damage mower deck. I was told by Husqvarna to take it to where I purchased it.
Ed at Husqvarna Warranty dept was contacted by Ace Hardware store and warranty repair was turned down.
I was stuck with a over $1,400 repair bill.

I dropped of the mower again 12 May 23 with exact same break in weld. I stopped before major damaged occurred. I can not believe that I am going to have to buy another deck within 4 years of purchase. I will pursue reimbursement...no luck last time. Beware of B.S. warranties.

Get a different mower.

 

[LennyG]

I just picked the mower upat Johnson's ACE Hardware, Wellford SC 29385
864 539-3485. They said that Husqvarna would not honor the lifetime deck warranty. This is the second deck failure. I owned a Murray for 14 years and a Ariens for 8 years with no issues cutting the same lawn . WTF.
I Purchased a TS 348 Lawn tractor new on 8-26-2019 with a lifetime mower deck warranty from Johnson's ACE Hardware,10409 E Greenville HWY, Wellford SC 29385,
Registered it that day with Husqvarna. Model 960430230 00, ser # 121917A001120.
The small protection moon shaped metal piece at mower deck ejection area broke loose in Nov 2020. The piece of metal wrapped up blades and severely damage mower deck. I was told by Husqvarna to take it to where I purchased it.
Ed at Husqvarna Warranty dept was contacted by Ace Hardware store and warranty repair was turned down.
I was stuck with a over $1,400 repair bill.

I dropped of the mower again 12 May 23 with exact same break in weld. I stopped before major damaged occurred. I can not believe that I am going to have to buy another deck within 4 years of purchase. I will pursue reimbursement...no luck last time. Beware of B.S. warranties.

To quote Tommy Boy movie, a warranty is only as good as the people that give it…. I can take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed…. I’ve got the spare time…

 

[fixit1ddh]

ILENGINE says: (about grease serts on spindle housings.

For the most part it is a feel good measure.

I suspected such also to make the owner/operator feel good that they are really doing the lube maintenance procedure and doing a lot of good saving their spindle bearings but are actually just wasting lots of grease.
It might keep the spindle housing itself little bit cooler when the bearing race seizes due to no grease inside and the whole bearing starts spinning in the housing generating friction heat before ruining the spindle housing few minutes later. I've seen lots of spindle housing completely full of grease but the bearings worn out and no grease inside the roller bearing.

If the spindle housing grease is intended to actually lube the bearings why not leave the inner bearing seal off???????????

When I worked at a large simplicity mower garage in the 70's. The rep said the grease zerks were in deck arbors to pump 10 pumps in the spring. To keep mosture out and keep the shaft and spacer from freezing together. To make it easy to replace just the sealed bearings. The one's that had no zeros in were always frozen together. And had to replace the whole arbor. The one's with zeros and were greased. Would practically fall apart when pulley was taken off.