Ztrak 717a
I was mowing a few days ago and saw a spark fly from under my deck to the front tire. Killed the PTO, found that one of the idler pulleys had lost a bearing. John Deere has updated the design, maybe because other peoples were failing as well.
The old one didn’t have a bearing, just balls rolling around a track. I never saw any balls… from the picture, you can see why.
Got me a new pulley today, and it has a real bearing.
u/respond2us — 13 days ago