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- posted September 28, 2016 in Husqvarna: Ask & Answer > Riding Lawn Mowers
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I just posted a video about the bracket fix. https://youtu.be/l7iCcbzdkuE
I also found out that the pulley was also damaged when the bracket broke. There are four different pulley assemblies for this hydraulic motor! The one my local Husqvarna dealer got for me was different than the original but it works...
Attached is the manual for the hydro-gear unit, you can see the various possibilities!
zt-2800-3100-3200-3400.pdf (16.9MB)- posted August 3, 2016 in Husqvarna: Ask & Answer > Zero Turn Mowers
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Eugene,
I think you are correct, they had a bunch of brakes left over from a previous model and decided to use them at our expense...! I will have to think long and hard before I buy another piece of Husqvarna equipment....
Bob
- posted August 3, 2016 in Husqvarna: Ask & Answer > Zero Turn Mowers
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I also found out yesterday why the wheels were pitched in toward the frame like this: / \ I was constantly breaking the bolts on the tie rod at the base of the motor, the rod was 1/2” too long and would be very difficult to insert. This also added to the top of the wheels being pitched in towards the top. The other major thing I found yesterday after really looking at the hydraulic mounting brackets, you can only use two of the mounting holes on the bracket. The four holes on the bracket don’t line up with the four holes on the hydraulic motor. So on one side the inner two holes were used and on the left side the outer two holes were used! This was the cause of the tie rod being too long and the bolts constantly snapping off. I moved the mounting bolts to the inside mount holes on the Left bracket and installed the new bracket on the right side. The left wheel has moved out so that it is no longer close to the frame, it is now about an inch away! The bottom tie-rod will now fit and the wheels are square to the frame! Imagine that! So the issue was during assembly, the left motor bracket was installed on the wrong set of holes. This would all have been a non-issue if the four bracket holes matched up to the four holes on the hydraulic motor!
Robert Hodge
- posted August 2, 2016 in Husqvarna: Ask & Answer > Zero Turn Mowers
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Nope, it looks like the new bracket is exactly the same as the old one...
It will only mount the motor with just two of the holes. As you can see with the attached picture the other holes near the right side of the bracket don't even lineup with the holes in the motor. My guess is that is was too costly for the remanufacture of the brackets and Husqvarna said "oh, well they will last for a while, maybe we can get a motor sold as well if its housing cracks! That will be additional money for us!"
Well Husqvarna, this will be my last mower I buy from you! Oh John Deere! Do you accept crappy trade-ins?
- posted July 18, 2016 in Husqvarna: Ask & Answer > Zero Turn Mowers
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I have had the cross bar bolt snap three or four times now. I am hoping the with the new brackets coming in that Husqvarna has made a design change and the bracket now allows all four holes in the drive motor to be mounted so not just using two bolts....
. Still waiting for the new brackets to come in, they are on back order.... Maybe a lot more busted out there! So my mower is still out in the field covered by a tarp.... DANG!Bob
- posted June 7, 2016 in Husqvarna: Ask & Answer > Riding Lawn Mowers
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I took it to one of my local Husqvarna dealers here and he contacted the local rep. It appears this is a known issue as they had made a spacer for moving the tires further out. The other issue I am noticing now is that the tires don't sit vertical, the bottoms angle out like this / \ It looks like the bottom cross bar that goes between the hydraulic units is too long. My guess is it is because they drilled the holes for the hydraulic units too close inside. It looks like I need to trim about a 1/2" off that tie rod to get the wheels angled correctly....