Snapper series 6 Briggs model 191707 type 251501 Having trouble removing drive pulley .

[SamB]

I recall when I was a kid, one of my uncles had a Snapper walk behind mower with a similar friction disc drive. He was amazed when I tightened the drive tension spring on it.... I did it out of necessity because it was too heavy to push if the drive was constantly slipping. He never did understand anything mechanical. LOL

My series 6 Snapper has not been run so far this year, but I need to. Machines that set too much can be as bad or worse than machines that are abused. I got this thing from an elderly friend who has now passed away, but he loved talking about it. I think the only reason it got parked was due to a stripped blade bar. I have since reconditioned most of the machine and worked a lot of the kinks out of it.

I might get energetic and even paint it someday soon. These machines were built simple and built to last.

Rustoleum Professional Safety Red is what I use on my Snappers with good results. I prefer the quart cans of it, using it with a Harbor Freight cheap HVLP gun.Their cheapest guns spray as good as their more expensive ones. I don't like the spray head on the spray cans, but it is a handier way to paint something. The Rustoleum spray cans tend to have the siphon tube inside the can fall off and you have to hold the can upside-down to get it to spray. I know this because I have cut several of the cans open and have found this to be the case multiple times.