BX2200 Mower Deck Leveling/adjusting?

Jay4200 · Jun 22, 2015

My BX2200 has a 60" MMM deck - is was quite out of level side-to-side (~3/4") when I got it. The manual has no description of how to level the deck side-to-side, only front to back, which I don't understand either. I think they missed some things when stuffing 3 different deck designs into the same manual. It looks like adjusting on the spring-loaded bolts on the far sides of the rear lifting bar would do it, but changing tension on the springs did nothing - guess they're just shock absorbers.

Anyway, I ended up leveling the deck by adjusting the positions of the threaded thingies that hang off of the lift arms (held to deck by pins). I leveled it more-or-less front to back the same way - one of the adjusters is easily 1/2" different from the other. It is now perfect side to side, and pretty close front to back, but I'm no longer calibrated with the cutting height knob. Can anyone describe the correct procedure to calibrate and level the deck in laymens terms?

davesl708 · Jun 22, 2015

Hi. First the bolts you adjusted with the springs are the self-leveling bolts that keep the deck stable. The adjustments on the lift arms are the right ones to adjust side to side level.

The front attachment that lifts the front of the deck has a measurement for the threads on the end of the bracket. Make sure they are where they need to be. This can effect the cutting height.
Your machine may have worn parts causing the height adjustment to be inaccurate. On mine rather than replace the worn parts I adjusted up one setting to 3 1/2". This resulted in the deck cutting 1/8 higher than the 3" setting which was 3/4" low.

The knob on the long rod that is in the back adjust the travel height of the deck when you lift it. Make sure the deck does not go up too high or you could snap the rod or bend things. There is a setting for that height in the manual.