Scott’s L2048 ( John Deere GX2048T020833) keeps eating belts

[PHIL850]

My scotts ride on keeps eating deck belts. I’ve gone through the entire deck and everything thing checks out spindles, idlers and such. First I thought it was because i bought an off brand belt, but since then I have only used Deere belts at twice the prices, but they perform no better. I am wondering if the clutch pully has worn too much. Anyone have any ideas?

belt is a GX20305

 

[LittleBill21]

short of showing photo's of the belt, we are only guessing. how many hours between belts

i had a issue with a drive belt on my white. it started breaking, checked the pulleys and even added grease into them, ultimately I replaced all the bearing pulley's and the problem is gone, apparently 3600 rpm was making one of them stall. and it was only 30 to replace all of them.

 

[69 SS]

My Scotts 2048 purchased new in 2009 at Lowes for 1767.00 ,sold in 2019 with 387 hrs on it,did the same thing. Bought a deck kit off ebay with all pulleys, spindles, idler pulleys,deck belt , hydrostatic tranny drive belt, new Gator mulcher blades . Do it all at one time ,drop the mower deck, drain engine oil,stand the tractor on its rear wheels, pressure wash everything and make it happen. Did all this in 9/30/2016 $240.00. Money well spent, 230 hrs on tractor when this was done. Sold "Big Orange" for 500.00 December 2019 and bought Toro Zero Turn so wife could help with 3 acre yard. Take care of your tractor and keep a log book on it for resale purposes. Good luck to all on your projects.