wompuscat32
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I saw a Husqava (not sure of spelling) zero turn radias mower with a couple pictures depicting stick children getting their extremites choped off.
Mowing Cub Cadet, no more reverse mowing.
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Thecountryowl
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I don't have a reverse pedal on mine, just a gear lever, forward, neutral and reverse. There are 2 leads under the seat. I'm wondering if one lead is for the seat switch, and one is for the reverse mow cut out.
Any ideas? I just got this little tractor, and I do like it. It is a little Cub Cadet CLT 160. If anyone knows how I can disable that, I'd surely be grateful to know.
Great forum here!
Jim
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( i believe he has the lt1022 which is what i had before i traded it for an ih cub cadet 682. instead of messing with the foot pedal area, the wire is connected directly below the seat under the frame. very easy to disconnect and reconnect. they made it easy to disconnect because they know everybody hates it. )</font>
Any ideas? I just got this little tractor, and I do like it. It is a little Cub Cadet CLT 160. If anyone knows how I can disable that, I'd surely be grateful to know.
Great forum here!
Jim
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( i believe he has the lt1022 which is what i had before i traded it for an ih cub cadet 682. instead of messing with the foot pedal area, the wire is connected directly below the seat under the frame. very easy to disconnect and reconnect. they made it easy to disconnect because they know everybody hates it. )</font>
Bird
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If it's like most Cub Cadets, it's just a matter of unplugging one wire, but I don't know where it is on that model. A dealer should be able to tell you where it is, or you can probably find it if you follow the linkage from the reverse pedal until you get to a little switch.
Ingo
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I just bought a new 2186, and neither bending the lever or unplugging a wire will work on it. Apparently they've changed things to make it harder to disable.
There's a lever linked to the reserve pedal that depresses a switch when the reserve pedal is pressed. It's under the frame, inside the left hand frame member. The lever is heavy metal and not bendable. You can see it from the right side if you put the deck all the way down and lay on the ground. However, nothing is easily accessible, including the wiring which apparently is run into the frame and then the steering column.
When my dealer delivered it, he told me the easiest way is to remove the lever--that means removing the deck and possibly jacking the whole thing up to get enough room to work. He said the switch is normally in the closed position (PTO running), so that if you unplug it, you also have to tap the leads together (or ground one?). It looks like you'd have to take apart the steering column to get at the wiring--not sure how you get to switch itself--and figure out which ones go to the switch.
Now the interesting part. Mine mows in reverse as I got it /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif I don't know if my dealer did it--I made a point to the saleman that I would disable it first thing (but not the owner that delivered it), and they had it for a week while I was on vacation. Or it could have been done by the dealer they got it from (they didn't have one themselves). In any case, I was happy! I haven't pulled apart the steering console to see how it was done, but it's obviously in the wiring since the lever/switch mechanism is still in place.
John
There's a lever linked to the reserve pedal that depresses a switch when the reserve pedal is pressed. It's under the frame, inside the left hand frame member. The lever is heavy metal and not bendable. You can see it from the right side if you put the deck all the way down and lay on the ground. However, nothing is easily accessible, including the wiring which apparently is run into the frame and then the steering column.
When my dealer delivered it, he told me the easiest way is to remove the lever--that means removing the deck and possibly jacking the whole thing up to get enough room to work. He said the switch is normally in the closed position (PTO running), so that if you unplug it, you also have to tap the leads together (or ground one?). It looks like you'd have to take apart the steering column to get at the wiring--not sure how you get to switch itself--and figure out which ones go to the switch.
Now the interesting part. Mine mows in reverse as I got it /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif I don't know if my dealer did it--I made a point to the saleman that I would disable it first thing (but not the owner that delivered it), and they had it for a week while I was on vacation. Or it could have been done by the dealer they got it from (they didn't have one themselves). In any case, I was happy! I haven't pulled apart the steering console to see how it was done, but it's obviously in the wiring since the lever/switch mechanism is still in place.
John
Thanks Bird!
I followed the linkage from the reverse pedal back to the area located under the frame below the seat. Low and behold, there was the switch! All it consisted of was a green wire with a yellow wire/black stripe tied to a red switch. I just pulled it off, works like a charm. Just to be sure, I plugged it back it and safety feature was enabled. The whole process took me about 2 minutes, tops. Thanks again!
I followed the linkage from the reverse pedal back to the area located under the frame below the seat. Low and behold, there was the switch! All it consisted of was a green wire with a yellow wire/black stripe tied to a red switch. I just pulled it off, works like a charm. Just to be sure, I plugged it back it and safety feature was enabled. The whole process took me about 2 minutes, tops. Thanks again!
Bird
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Glad you found it. I still don't understand why they have that feature. A Cub Cadet dealer told me it was "illegal" for them to disable it (I know of no such law, but it might be a company requirement). And yet, my Craftsman hydrostat would mow in reverse just fine, so I can only assume Cub Cadet sees it as a liability concern. One thing's for sure; I don't want a riding mower that cuts off every time I back up.
Frank03
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Hi every one. New guy here. Just got done mowing the lawn with my new Cub 3235 with 44" deck for the first time and it's great not to have sore knees after mowing. I told my wife I was going to look for a Cub Cadet forum and she just laughed. Disabling the "not mowing in reverse mode" was my first question to the dealer and just as been said, they could not disable it due to legal reasons. Would my tractor be any different than the one's already mentioned? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Great forum!
Frank03
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/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Well--worked on the reverse mowing de-bugging today and thank's to this forum I actually did it with little cussing /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Used the mirror trick to locate and bent the metal tab out of the way of the switch.