bmg88201
Gold Member
I have a 2010 X300 with about 550 hours on it and had real bad problems with the steering, it would not hardly turn very far to the left and took a lot of force to straighten the front wheels back up. Turned out the large half-moon sector gear was knarled up and the steering wheel shaft bushings were worn badly. I had to jack up the mower real high to get the steering shaft out cause it has to be removed from the bottom. Bought a new sector gear and 2 new bushings for the steering shaft and 2 new bushing for the sector gear. I heard this was a design flaw in the X300. I believe the worn bushings caused the sector gear to get knarled up. The gear on the steering shaft ( which is one piece ) is in good shape so I did not have to replace the steering shaft. Should I complain with 550 hours on the mower, or should this have lasted longer ?