How to adjust zero turn drivetrain alignment

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] have you ever been sitting on your lowering you push the drive letters forward just minding your own business trying to mow and then it doesn't drive straight this is a terrible problem that plagues many people don't know have you ever wondered it anyone can fix this well just watch this video to the end and you'll be able to fix it now let's grab our tools and get to work okay so as you could probably tell from that beginning video when these are both pushed forward the more turns a little bit to the left and but you know you can tell from the way these work is that means the left wheel is turning a little bit too slow the right wheel is turning a little faster so I need to adjust the left wheel so that when the thing is pushed forward it drives just a little faster so that this thing will drive perfectly straight all right so this here is the part I probably need to adjust this block right here with bolts on either side locking it now really quick I'm gonna show you what happens when I actually move the lever what happens is this bolt up here pulls back and forth on the whole entire mechanism just with some with a little bit of adjustment I could probably get the mechanism pulled a little further as you can tell this allen bolt in this little track here is not quite out of the frontmost of its travel so I should be able to adjust this a little and see if that fixes it I want this mechanism to be pulled back a little further so this screws at the front of its travel completely so what I want to do is loosen this one here and tighten the one on the back to slide the whole mechanism back just a little bit so that's what I'll do so I'm going to loosen this one all the way as far as it can go and then just tighten this thing up as far as it will go before the little allen bolt meets the end of its slot and I may over adjust it but I won't under edge US tit and if I over adjust it I can always come back and readjust it [Music] [Music] okay now let's give it a try and see what my adjustment did [Applause] so this time since such a small adjustment last time made such a huge difference this time I'm going to go with a really small adjustment in the opposite direction all right now we'll see [Applause] [Music] so apparently this thing you really only need the tiniest bit of adjustment in the first plate so remember that for when you do this project you want to be any trouble I did okay well that's about perfect now you know now you know how to do that yourself you

Channel: Stephen Nyberg

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Keywords: hustler, turf, john, deere, craftsman, cub, cadet, mower, drive, train, adjustment

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Length: 7min 55sec (475 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 26 2020