Well it Wasn't What I Or What The Mower Shop Thought, But Your Video Made Me Look more & Deeper Because My 2011 is Alot Different From Your 2012 So they Were Enough the Same & With The Other Things I Heard It CRASHED THROUGH All That Gray Matter & Such & I Tried That Lock Nut That Holds This Rocker Like Thing From The Hand Control For Forward & Reverse To The Side of The HYDRO , & I Only Backed It Off A Couple Of Flats & Everything freed Up ,So Now its like Riding A wild Stallion Crossed With A Old MOSEY HAIRED BRAMMER BULL THAT DON'T LIKE NOTHING, THAT THING IS WILD, So I Got Some Learning to Do Cause That Thing Is Not Wanting To Be Ridden But I've Been There Before & I'm Still Around 🤠🤪
Good info. Would like to have seen the set screw but I'm am going to have to try this on my Grasshopper 227 so the set up is probably different. I liked the simplicity of the instruction. Thanks.
This was helpful! Thanks for posting! I was feeling like I was about to get in over my head, but you explaining how the steering system works made me a little bit less intimidated!
That Was A GREAT VIDEO Thank You & I Also Bought Mine Used a Iron Eagle Dixie chopper knowing it needed a Hydro. I got the Hydro rebuilt and it only cost a couple of hundred opposed to 1000 for a new one. I put on a new hydros belt which was a pain but not terrible. But the right tire setting on the machine that was fine I changed fluid and filter. And the left is rebuilt from a shop the tire will go after alittle while in reverse but not forward. Was told if you pull the releases on either side that free wheels it. And I should do that to get all the air out as well as, let it idle in gear with the wheels able to turn. So I did and finally it would go alittle forward and more in reverse. So that's why I found your video to learn how to adjust it. I've never even ran a zero turn before and when I first got it almost ran over my wife and a bunch of Bushes. Had to shut it off. So I'm looking forward to this working. Thank you so much. When I do get it working right I'll let you know.
Sounds like the engine is struggling to mow that short grass, got that throttle High? I just mowed my pasture with taller and thicker grass..no bogging.
I'm not sure where it was then but currently it runs like a bear. The top to the air filter had been smashed down. Choking it out. Saw it when my wife was mowing - the big hose from the filter to the intake was actually sucking shut. Expensive part so I found a used stainless one on ebay from a piece of construction equipment. Last week I pulled the valve covers and feel confident the hour meter is correct at 100 hrs (over 10 year old machine). Some clown has worked on this and I have corrected a few things they did wrong. Thanks for the comment.
How much of your acreage needs mowing? Lawns seem like an unproductive use of farm land, but I'm only sitting on 1/3 acre here. Maybe good for erosion control?
We have 2-1/2 acres around our buildings then about another 1-1/2 acres of walking paths that snake almost 2 miles around the property. I also hope this will work to mow pasture. Grazing works okay but when the pasture is too large for the number of animals then it needs cut in some way. Weed control. Multifloral rose is invasive. Dad said someone brought it to make a natural fence line. Now 75 years or more later its all over. Just googled the rose. Yup, Dad was right. Was brought to make "live fencing" in the '30's when he was a child.
Whenever I bleed my hydro lines whenever I jack it off the ground do I open the anything to let the air out while I go forward and backwards with the wheels??
I can't say. I have not done it but I would just operate it with no load. You are bound to have foaming in the oil so doing it a couple times with a break for the foaming to subside would be my expectation.
I loosen the bolts on the side of each pump and did the back and forth then tighten the bolt back put the mower back on ground and it worked perfectly. Thanks for replying anyway 🙏🏾you
I noticed your machine became bogged down going up the hill. Is that normal? I’ve recently purchased a similar model, used, and today I noticed it doing that. We live in the Ozarks, and I have a few acres on the side of a hill to mow. It seemed to be able to manage ok going up at an angle, but directly up it wanted to bog down and almost die. I’d like to know of there’s something I need to inspect in the drive train. Great video!
Well it Wasn't What I Or What The Mower Shop Thought, But Your Video Made Me Look more & Deeper Because My 2011 is Alot Different From Your 2012 So they Were Enough the Same & With The Other Things I Heard It CRASHED THROUGH All That Gray Matter & Such & I Tried That Lock Nut That Holds This Rocker Like Thing From The Hand Control For Forward & Reverse To The Side of The HYDRO , & I Only Backed It Off A Couple Of Flats & Everything freed Up ,So Now its like Riding A wild Stallion Crossed With A Old MOSEY HAIRED BRAMMER BULL THAT DON'T LIKE NOTHING, THAT
THING IS WILD, So I Got Some Learning to Do Cause That Thing Is Not Wanting To Be Ridden But I've Been There Before & I'm Still Around 🤠🤪
Good info. Would like to have seen the set screw but I'm am going to have to try this on my Grasshopper 227 so the set up is probably different. I liked the simplicity of the instruction. Thanks.
This was helpful! Thanks for posting! I was feeling like I was about to get in over my head, but you explaining how the steering system works made me a little bit less intimidated!
I really appreciate the positive comment!
@@thewayidoit8895can you please explain how to tighten ?
That Was A GREAT VIDEO Thank You & I Also Bought Mine Used a Iron Eagle Dixie chopper knowing it needed a Hydro. I got the Hydro rebuilt and it only cost a couple of hundred opposed to 1000 for a new one. I put on a new hydros belt which was a pain but not terrible. But the right tire setting on the machine that was fine I changed fluid and filter. And the left is rebuilt from a shop the tire will go after alittle while in reverse but not forward. Was told if you pull the releases on either side that free wheels it. And I should do that to get all the air out as well as, let it idle in gear with the wheels able to turn. So I did and finally it would go alittle forward and more in reverse. So that's why I found your video to learn how to adjust it. I've never even ran a zero turn before and when I first got it almost ran over my wife and a bunch of Bushes. Had to shut it off. So I'm looking forward to this working. Thank you so much. When I do get it working right I'll let you know.
Hope the bushes are fine! Haha!
Watched It Again & I Really Hope You Use That Roll BAR MINE Dosen't Have The Top Bar But I'm Going To Get One Real Soon, Thanks Again !!!👍👍👍
Can you please show me how to adjust set screw?
Sounds like the engine is struggling to mow that short grass, got that throttle High? I just mowed my pasture with taller and thicker grass..no bogging.
I'm not sure where it was then but currently it runs like a bear. The top to the air filter had been smashed down. Choking it out. Saw it when my wife was mowing - the big hose from the filter to the intake was actually sucking shut. Expensive part so I found a used stainless one on ebay from a piece of construction equipment. Last week I pulled the valve covers and feel confident the hour meter is correct at 100 hrs (over 10 year old machine). Some clown has worked on this and I have corrected a few things they did wrong. Thanks for the comment.
How much of your acreage needs mowing? Lawns seem like an unproductive use of farm land, but I'm only sitting on 1/3 acre here. Maybe good for erosion control?
We have 2-1/2 acres around our buildings then about another 1-1/2 acres of walking paths that snake almost 2 miles around the property. I also hope this will work to mow pasture. Grazing works okay but when the pasture is too large for the number of animals then it needs cut in some way. Weed control. Multifloral rose is invasive. Dad said someone brought it to make a natural fence line. Now 75 years or more later its all over.
Just googled the rose. Yup, Dad was right. Was brought to make "live fencing" in the '30's when he was a child.
What size is the set screw?
I don't recall. I took a hex wrench set and just tried til it fit.
Whenever I bleed my hydro lines whenever I jack it off the ground do I open the anything to let the air out while I go forward and backwards with the wheels??
I can't say. I have not done it but I would just operate it with no load. You are bound to have foaming in the oil so doing it a couple times with a break for the foaming to subside would be my expectation.
I loosen the bolts on the side of each pump and did the back and forth then tighten the bolt back put the mower back on ground and it worked perfectly. Thanks for replying anyway 🙏🏾you
You did not show the most important part, the tightening.
I appreciate that. I will be adding a video on this machine and I will remember to include it.
I noticed your machine became bogged down going up the hill. Is that normal? I’ve recently purchased a similar model, used, and today I noticed it doing that. We live in the Ozarks, and I have a few acres on the side of a hill to mow. It seemed to be able to manage ok going up at an angle, but directly up it wanted to bog down and almost die.
I’d like to know of there’s something I need to inspect in the drive train.
Great video!
Hire a driver that knows how to drive it
Sorry, pal. There's a difference between being a good operator and dealing with a sloppy linkage.
Don’t know how to stripe yet?
No, not making a ball field