My Toro SS5060
Time Cutter
is having a little bit of trouble
in reverse with an uneven pull.
So I’m gonna test it and then I’m going to adjust it. I’ll show you how to do that.
To determine which side it's pulling to
I’m just going to get on a straight
piece of grass there and just put it in full reverse on both sides
and see which way it turn so I’ll know how to adjust it.
My first test of the lawnmower indicated that it was pulling to the left hand as I
backed up.
So that means that the
left wheel is not getting as much power as the right wheel.
So in order to uh...
to give it more power I want to uh...
to tighten
the linkage here between the controller arm when it’s in reverse
and the transmission on the left side.
So to do that
um... there's a bolt -
let me just show it to you.
There’s a bolt under here.
There’s the back left tire.
This bolt is at...
or this uh... this
threaded rod is at the end of the linkage that goes up to the controller
handle.
And to
make it more responsive
you just wanna tighten this nut right here. There’s a nut and
it's a one-half inch open end wrench.
So you just put the wrench on ther and tighten it.
I’ll tighten it down several threads
and then test it again and see what happens.
So now the lawnmower pulls severely to the right.
So I’ve tightened it up too much. I’m just going to loosen this nut
and keep track of where I am
and try to get it to where it backs up exactly straight.
When trying to uh... adjust this nut, it's hard to get the wrench in there because
this threaded rod is so close to the chassis here.
So uh... what I do is put my foot
on the uh...
controlling arm up there
and just push it forward.
You can see
when I do that -
make sure it's not in park -
when I do that this arm . . .
this threaded rod comes out where I can reach it.
Push it backward, it goes in there.
Push it forward it comes out just enough to make it easier to access
and I’ll
loosen it
about four turns this time
and go and test it again.
It’s still pulling to the right noticeably
but not as much. So I’m gonna loosen it
four more turns.
It's pulling ever so slightly to the left now so
I’m going to tighten it two turns.
uh... I’m sorry when I say turns, I mean really quarter turns
or whatever the wrench will do
in that given confined area.
so I’m gonna tighten it two more wrench turns
and test it again.
Okay so it still pulls of slightly to the
right but very slight
and I’m pretty happy
with how straight it goes in the backwards position now. So I’m gonna go ahead and
stop adjusting it. . .and that’s
how do you do it.