I have this mower that I got last year with a dead engine. I am doing an engine transplant on it as we speak.
I cant seem to find any good clear pictures of the belt routing. Everywhere i look via Google search I find the same exploded view contained with what I take as the original owners manual. It's sideways on the computer screen and a drawing not a picture.
The belt routing isn't quite what I am questioning.
It has a 2nd belt attached at one end to a long carriage bolt on the far right side, by a hose clamp. (as it would sit behind a tractor as you are seated and running along) I had to take the hose clamp off and remove this 2nd belt to get the old belt and then the new belt to pass thru onto the pulley.
This 2nd belt is cut, doesn't spin w/ the engine, and is connected on the other end (would be the left side of machine by what can be best described as a big staple about 2/3 of the way around the left blade pulley (judged by the amount of drive belt wrapped around left pulley) and I thought it was "jerry rigged" until I saw that parts breakdown and it shows exactly what I have, this 2nd belt is called out as a "brake belt" PN B370. It is used as a belt guide, belt "keeper" type of deal.
What I'm trying to figure out is how this 2nd belt is supposed to be orientated. Particularly on the left side. Does it go under the left drive pulley, just as an "attachment point" to hold the other end from flopping around, or does it go higher as in behind the drive belt? I can't see how this could be? as the only way I can wrap it in line with the belt, the 2 belts rub back to back, I can't see how that can be good for either one, the heat buildup and friction would destroy one or both belts. Page 5 of Swisher Lawn Mower T-40 User Guide | ManualsOnline.com
hopefully this page of the only manual I can find on pages and pages of Google shows what I mean....
I've found pictures of a whole unit as in an old sale ad, but none with covers off looking straight down.
I cant seem to find any good clear pictures of the belt routing. Everywhere i look via Google search I find the same exploded view contained with what I take as the original owners manual. It's sideways on the computer screen and a drawing not a picture.
The belt routing isn't quite what I am questioning.
It has a 2nd belt attached at one end to a long carriage bolt on the far right side, by a hose clamp. (as it would sit behind a tractor as you are seated and running along) I had to take the hose clamp off and remove this 2nd belt to get the old belt and then the new belt to pass thru onto the pulley.
This 2nd belt is cut, doesn't spin w/ the engine, and is connected on the other end (would be the left side of machine by what can be best described as a big staple about 2/3 of the way around the left blade pulley (judged by the amount of drive belt wrapped around left pulley) and I thought it was "jerry rigged" until I saw that parts breakdown and it shows exactly what I have, this 2nd belt is called out as a "brake belt" PN B370. It is used as a belt guide, belt "keeper" type of deal.
What I'm trying to figure out is how this 2nd belt is supposed to be orientated. Particularly on the left side. Does it go under the left drive pulley, just as an "attachment point" to hold the other end from flopping around, or does it go higher as in behind the drive belt? I can't see how this could be? as the only way I can wrap it in line with the belt, the 2 belts rub back to back, I can't see how that can be good for either one, the heat buildup and friction would destroy one or both belts. Page 5 of Swisher Lawn Mower T-40 User Guide | ManualsOnline.com
hopefully this page of the only manual I can find on pages and pages of Google shows what I mean....
I've found pictures of a whole unit as in an old sale ad, but none with covers off looking straight down.