Have a Titan. About a year old. Got it out today for the first time this season to mow and the deck makes several loud bangs at startup. I did some investigation and it is the belt tensioner hitting the stop. It happens a couple times even with the engine at about 1/3 throttle but worse at higher speed so I throttled down when starting the deck. The tensioner vibrates a fair amount once up to speed - seems like more than it should. I didn't take the belt off but pulled on each of the blades and they all seemed to rotate smoothly and not hitting anything. Also checked the tensioner pulley and it turned smoothly too. I suppose I could just put a short piece of rubber hose on the stop pin to make it less noisy but it seems like shouldn't make such a racket. I don't recall it doing that last season.