RalphVa
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- Joined
- Dec 19, 2003
- Messages
- 7,885
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Tractor
- JD 2025R, previously Gravely 5650 & JD 4010 & JD 1025R
The drive belt broke on my 1994 14SB. Since I bought the repair CD (for $75), I figured that I was well fixed to know how to replace it.
The instructions are:
1. Remove engine.
2. Remove anchor bolt (this is the big bolt holding the belt anti-jump bracket near the engine shaft pulley)
3. Replace belt
4. Replace anchor bolt
5. Replace engine.
Well, you can't get at the last engine bolt without removing the anchor bolt first.
Can't get the new belt in around the pulley until you remove the big spring on the blade brake assembly. (My automotive brake spring remover came in handy for this.)
Before putting the belt on, you have to remove that bracket that the anchor bolt is holding in place, and you have to have all the engine bolts loose to get it back in place with the new belt there.
Getting the belt onto the speed change gearbox pulley is tough, with those anti-jump things in front of it. Somehow, I got it in there. There ain't much room.
Hope this doesn't happen for another 13 years.
The instructions are:
1. Remove engine.
2. Remove anchor bolt (this is the big bolt holding the belt anti-jump bracket near the engine shaft pulley)
3. Replace belt
4. Replace anchor bolt
5. Replace engine.
Well, you can't get at the last engine bolt without removing the anchor bolt first.
Can't get the new belt in around the pulley until you remove the big spring on the blade brake assembly. (My automotive brake spring remover came in handy for this.)
Before putting the belt on, you have to remove that bracket that the anchor bolt is holding in place, and you have to have all the engine bolts loose to get it back in place with the new belt there.
Getting the belt onto the speed change gearbox pulley is tough, with those anti-jump things in front of it. Somehow, I got it in there. There ain't much room.
Hope this doesn't happen for another 13 years.
