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Old 05-04-2014, 09:51 AM
mike melillo mike melillo is offline
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Default 48" Deck Questions

I have a couple of 48" decks that i'm going to make one from, but when I was striping them down I noticed different sized outer pulleys between he two. So I looked them up on the parts finder site and it looks like they offered both styles for this deck, one larger.

I can understand why you'd want a smaller pulley (to speed up the blade), but why a larger pulley, why slow the blade speed?

On top of that when you look at the parts schematic they only offered the larger pulley for side showing qty.1 (left side item 21), but the smaller pulley qty.2 (Right side item 20). So why only slow the blade, and only on left side?

Best I can figure is to mount the larger (slower) on the Left to help mulch the grass more before it discharges, IDK.:big think:

mike
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