T40 swisher

[joshuaset]

I have recently purchased a swisher t40 cheap and im trying to get it back to functional and I think I may be missing some pieces insides the pulley I've looked at the diagrams and I still can't seem to find what I'm missing and was curious is somebody had one and could snap a pic or something from under the belt cover to I could find what I'm having problems with is one of the springs was not mounted and so when I installed the belt I and pull leave its not getting tight and I'm out of options. It's not the spring for the engagement rod it's the the one that connects from the idler pulley somewhere near the motor pulley

 

[joshuaset]

I've circled the 2 springs I need pictures of

 

[dodge trucker]

I sold mine about 2months ago and it's now 300 miles away at my neighbor's cottage. If I still had it I'd be able to help ya more....
I will say that (and that was the 2nd swisher tow behind mower I've had) that the height adjusters on either side are still available but cost crazy money. I made my own with a 1/2" nut, (rounded off the high points of the wrench head) a piece of water pipe, a piece of 1/4" rod for a turn handle and a few minutes with my MiG. If you have the exploded view there do you have the next page with the worded listing of the parts? Try to Google the part numbers. Also a search via eBay

 

[joshuaset]

Yes I need to make some new adjustments what I'm trying figure out is where a spring goes to tighten up the tension idler pulley so the belt will have tension

 

[Dougt]

Don't know if this helps or not. Almost looks like there is a spring between the rod and the bellcrank for the pulley.

 

[dodge trucker]

Yes I need to make some new adjustments what I'm trying figure out is where a spring goes to tighten up the tension idler pulley so the belt will have tension

Yeah I get that, just passing on some info from my experience with those machines

 

[dodge trucker]

Don't know if this helps or not. Almost looks like there is a spring between the rod and the bellcrank for the pulley.

That drawing doesn't look like a t40.my t40 only had 1 belt. It's been longer since that one so memory is a bit fuzzy/ that might have been like the t44 I had a few years ago.

 

[joshuaset]

I figured it out today I appreciate the help! Now gotta try to figure out the height adjustments lol

 

[joshuaset]

I sold mine about 2months ago and it's now 300 miles away at my neighbor's cottage. If I still had it I'd be able to help ya more....
I will say that (and that was the 2nd swisher tow behind mower I've had) that the height adjusters on either side are still available but cost crazy money. I made my own with a 1/2" nut, (rounded off the high points of the wrench head) a piece of water pipe, a piece of 1/4" rod for a turn handle and a few minutes with my MiG. If you have the exploded view there do you have the next page with the worded listing of the parts? Try to Google the part numbers. Also a search via eBay

Do you have any pictures of what you did?

 

[dodge trucker]

Not that part of it

 

[joshuaset]

Where did you find a blade mine has 17.5 with the dump style and can't seem to find any online nowhere I guess I'll have to get the 660 blades and cut them down to size

 

[larrybl]

Not sure if this helps, I worked on a 60" a couple years ago.