Bent deck

[lipancreek]

I inherited a JD 100. I always noticed previous owner had a crooked cut to their yard... I assumed maybe bent blade or bad tires. Anyway i took it in and service says deck is bent, not worth fixing... They said you cannot repair a deck. Has anyone ever repaired a bent deck successfully?

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ..... Bent dEck. :rotfl:

 

[Gator6x4]

I inherited a JD 100. I always noticed previous owner had a crooked cut to their yard... I assumed maybe bent blade or bad tires. Anyway i took it in and service says deck is bent, not worth fixing... They said you cannot repair a deck. Has anyone ever repaired a bent deck successfully?

Lawn mower salvage yards may have decks since the K-46 transmission is the usual part that fails on the 100 series JD's.

 

[tractorworks]

took a jd deck to a machine shop and got it bent back for $40.

 

[Thomas]

When you say bent how bad and where?

 

[bx25jim]

From what I have found, there is a way to fix them. The deck is probably tweaked where the spindles mount. If you take a strait edge and lay it across the bottom of the deck (deck needs to be flipped over on its back and supported off the ground) and measure from the tips of the blades to the strait edge (make sure the blades are either new or strait themselves), it will tell you where the deck is out. Once you find where it is tweaked, use a 2x4 and a dead blow hammer on the deck near the spindles to straiten it out. Be careful as you can ruin the spindles if you bash them. Just keep measuring until the blade tips measure the same in a 360 revolution. Takes a little time but better than buying a new one. Hope this helps......

 

[lipancreek]

All, thank you very much for the replies! I'm going to try to take it off and straighten it. Yes it is bent where spindles are. Lawn mower shop said they don't straighten them because almost can't be done.. I guess we'll see! Thanks again.