g8erh8er
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When mowing, I prefer to have very little side to side movement of the mower. This doesn't appear possible with my particular mower (PRD8400) and the stabilizer bar setup on the RK55.
The RK55 stabilizer bar system consists of a static black outer tube with several holes and one slot along its length, and a bar with holes along its length that slides in/out of the tube. You have to match up a hole in the bar with a hole in the tube and insert a pin through both. What I've found is that its not possible to set the stabilizer adjustment pins in the same holes side to side and attach to this mower.
To clarify, I cannot place both pins in hole #6 of the bar, which in turn means the pin would also go through a matching hole in the black tube. Instead, I must have the pins in hole #5 of the bar, which places the pins in the slots of the black tube, and thus provides more lateral movement to the mower than I'd like to have. It works fine, but the mower slides to one side depending upon the lay of the land.
I took a pic showing the left bar secured in hole #6 and another of the right bar. Hole #6 is visible on the right bar, just not enough of it to get a pin through, and no amount of fiddling with the mower placement will get more of that hole to show.
Suppose I could run it with one pin through hole #6 (and accompanying hole in black tube) and one pin through hole #5 (and accompanying slot in black tube), and that should effectively cut the movement in half, but I prefer to have everything matching side to side.
Would turnbuckle stabilizers be the only option to achieve what I want to here?
The RK55 stabilizer bar system consists of a static black outer tube with several holes and one slot along its length, and a bar with holes along its length that slides in/out of the tube. You have to match up a hole in the bar with a hole in the tube and insert a pin through both. What I've found is that its not possible to set the stabilizer adjustment pins in the same holes side to side and attach to this mower.
To clarify, I cannot place both pins in hole #6 of the bar, which in turn means the pin would also go through a matching hole in the black tube. Instead, I must have the pins in hole #5 of the bar, which places the pins in the slots of the black tube, and thus provides more lateral movement to the mower than I'd like to have. It works fine, but the mower slides to one side depending upon the lay of the land.
I took a pic showing the left bar secured in hole #6 and another of the right bar. Hole #6 is visible on the right bar, just not enough of it to get a pin through, and no amount of fiddling with the mower placement will get more of that hole to show.
Suppose I could run it with one pin through hole #6 (and accompanying hole in black tube) and one pin through hole #5 (and accompanying slot in black tube), and that should effectively cut the movement in half, but I prefer to have everything matching side to side.
Would turnbuckle stabilizers be the only option to achieve what I want to here?
