914A MMM: The honeymoon's over!

[KYTurkey]

914A MMM: The honeymoon\'s over!

Well, the MMM is broken. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif After asking about leveling and reading everyone's replies, I finally left it completely alone, except that I moved the 3-point lift arms to their highest position (as per the manual and suggestions here). I called the dealer and they offered to look at it, but it meant renting a trailer and hauling it an hour each way.

Guess I should have rented the trailer, because now one of the lift rods is snapped in two:

As you can see from the second picture, the deck pin apparently either broke or fell out when the rod snapped, as well. All I know is that everything was fine, I lifted the mower to drive down the driveway, got to where I was going to mow and dropped the deck, and one side of it went "clunk." When I lifted it back up that side stayed down. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

So, the dealer's driving down for a look-see sometime this coming week, and I'm out of the mowing business for a while. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[OhioGuy]

Re: 914A MMM: The honeymoon\'s over!

Can you just replace that piece of threaded rod? Is something else missing? I had a similar failure on my Cub 5252, a pin fell out. I replaced it with a bolt and found the pin in the driveway a week later!

Good Luck

Curt

 

[KYTurkey]

Re: 914A MMM: The honeymoon\'s over!

Unfortunately, it's not just a simple threaded rod...it's a long piece of rod, threaded on both ends, with a zigzag in the middle. It'll have to come from the factory. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Inspector507]

Re: 914A MMM: The honeymoon\'s over!

I'm only guessing, but my experiences with deck pins leads me to believe that the deck pin fell out first and that may have contributed to the rod snapping. I have lost my share of deck pins until I got smart and used a different clip.