4115 draft arms dragging

[kennyd]

I used the optional "Deck Lockup Kit" to set my mowing height, not really its purpose but doing that meant you could never accidentally mow to low. It would be easy to make these with turnbuckles if you don't have them.

I still think your linkage is setup wrong, it should NEVER go that low.

 

[kennyd]

Sure, but I remove this almost weekly and if I remember right, the draft arms aren't super easy to get back on.

It should be very easy, two pins up front and two through the rear bellcranks that go over the lower 3PH arms.

But, you can also use some zip ties to hold them up as I wrote before.

 

[loakman]

The draft arms on my 4115 will drag the ground with the MMM off. I unpin and take them off when The mower is off.

 

[ovrszd]

The draft arms on my 4115 will drag the ground with the MMM off. I unpin and take them off when The mower is off.

Good stuff right there. Thanks for posting!!

 

[adolphbell]

On my 4100 I simply use a couple of turnbuckles to hold the arms up when the mower is off. Turnbuckles also work holding up the arms and the mower when using a 3pt implement.

 

[int0]

Thanks for all the input!

 

[bz1]

I have had a JD4100, and two JD4520's with the same lift mechanism. Firstly, those aren't the draft arms, they are the mower lift mechanism. So when folks say that the draft arms should not hit the ground, they are correct, but it's not your draft arms that are touching, it's your mower deck lift mechanism. All of my machines did the same, they have to in order to latch into the drive over deck properly. You have two easy solutions to the problem, either use turnbuckles to hole the mechanism up when the deck is not installed, or you can actually buy a chunk of steel from John Deere that us meant to attach to the hole in the frame above the mechanism bellcranks, and also attach to the clevis built into the bellcranks. Ask a dealer a about his part since I don't have the number handy. It's just a piece of flat iron with a hole on each end. The top end is attached to the frame with a bolt, the bottom end is attached to the bellcranks via a pin through the clevis. You can easily make one of these yourself if you have some simple metal working tools.

 

[2001 JD4110]

I simply tie them up with a piece/strand of 14 gauge housewire when using the 3pt & leave wire twisted up when mowing