I replaced belt, it's still throwing belt, I've got a loose pulley or something out of line. It's brutal outside this morning. That wind is wicked. Today's a good day to clean the house.
Such is life......
FYI…. As our equipment ages, parts that wear cause other parts to shift in alignment. Even in what seems to be *just a smidge* yet, these pulleys & belts can get “hot under the collar” with a quickness!
I have discovered that it’s needed slight adjustments to tensioners or the supporting plates or rails that these belts slap against. Sometimes on the mower deck, I have fiddled with the swing arms on the front edge of it; tightening or loosening one or both of them a little bit & then starting the mower to test spin up the blades while sitting there on the driveway to *listen* to it & see if that adjustment was enough? Or in the correct direction…
It’s far from an exact science too!
Hodgepodge is a verified parallel.
Sometimes a replacement of the entire spindle assembly is called for after greasing the original? Sometimes it take multiple pressure washing’s and multiple greasing’s of the bearings to get things to “settle down” for a few months…
And I have 20+ year old riding mowers that are still *mostly* faithful. As long as they are respected. It seems that after several years, if I clean it right after mowing (usually the same day) that crankiness doesn’t show up for many months. So, when it grumbles; I listen closer and actively look for the complaints location…
Better to find & remove a sand-bur than a day of urgent care for a nasty infraction on top of the now broken part.
we have tons of bullfrogs and turtles too. The noise from the frogs at night is wonderfully loud.
