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Re: (ET) d'oh - did I hook something up wrong?



I think the U-bar should be further back - there are tabs that fit under the front 'bumper' bolts to hold it in place - see:

http://users.rcn.com/ssawtelle/downloads/Mower42.PDF

The mower will lift from the rear until it hits the bumper, then the front will start to lift. The strain increases noticeably at that point. I guess if the U-bracket is too far forward, the 'lever' distance between strap connection and bumper is smaller so the lift strain is bigger. Yours doesn't look that far out from your pictures, but I've never tried it like that. I guess if the strap broke then the lift motor is in good shape (or the strap was really bad).

To accesss the blades:

Disconnect the PTO cable! Then, I lift the deck until it hits the bumper. Then you can swing the front of the deck up until the deck is vertical.

- SteveS


Michael S Briggs wrote:
I finally had time to finish putting most of my "new" E-15 back together, after painting, and plopped the batteries in with my freshly made cables (4 gauge). For pictures, see http://einstein.unh.edu/~msbriggs/Elec-Trak/
(the flash from the camera makes it look brighter blue than it really is)
Anyway - I haven't put the mower blades on yet, figuring I could use the lift to raise the deck up to give me easy access for putting them on. So, once I got everything back together, I used the lift to start raising the deck up. After the U-bar hit the top of the deck, it *really* struggled. I heard a straining/tearing/cracking noise, so stopped for the moment to check everything out. I'm wondering if I connected something wrong, as far as how the deck connects to the tractor. I had trouble getting the U-bar to go all the way into the rails it slides into (had to bang on it with a sledgehammer to get it most of the way in), and I suspect that that's the problem. I decided to give the lift another try, and again when the U-bar hit the top of the deck, heard a tearing noise again, and eventually the lift strap snapped. D'oh. How the lift strap connects to the mower deck doesn't seem all that well thought out to me, personally. I'd think it would make much more sense to have it connect closer to the front of the deck, to give better torque for lifting the front up for good access to the underside. Instead, it relies on a very small lever arm between the lift attachment point and the U-bar. Or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Mike