definitely time to change the belt you see that what's going on YouTube Kevin Reese here today
we're going to be changing the belt on Exmark blazer z s series mower this process should be
the same on just about any exmark mower you have you're gonna need a new belt and let's
go ahead and get started alright so coming up to your mower first thing you want to do you
have this tray here or your feet wrist flip it up you can get access to your pulleys and
belt you see I've already pop one of these covers off you're gonna pop the other one
off there real simple you just pull out like that and then just pops up from under here
alright so now y'all may be looking at this like what in the hell do I do I'm going to
show you all a trick on how to get this off easily alright so coming down here taking a
closer look you can see we're over here on the left side of the mower if you're sitting on it
you're looking at the day this is your deck belt diagram so you got your rear pulley in
the back which I'll show you so right here this pulley is this one that's what we're looking at
and now you have your attention or idler pulley up here that's the one do you look down under
there this one here with the spring on it and what you want to do is is pulled and I rolled
this one off on this side I'll show you all what that looks like but I've rolled it off
of this side you can go ahead and replace the whole belt and reroute it and put it back on
on this side here so this is kind of like the trick is when you pull and I'll show you in a
second but if you if you can look here at that trying to get your shelf and see it
if y'all look at that pulley right here you see here when you call you see how it moves that's
your tensioner idler pulley so that doesn't drive anything that's just like I said either pulley it
just keeps tension on the belt with that spring so the trick is and when you're putting that back
on you want to grab it with two hands and pull this side and roll it back onto this this this
pulley this will be the last the last part of the belt you'll run the belt you'll put it back
on right here and roll it on I'll show what that looks like all right take it from somebody who's
done this kind of stuff you want a good pair of gloves because this belt you're gonna roll bust
your fingernails and fingers and everything I know a lot of people have the mechanic style gloves
these are some gloves by also tools I'll put the link to that product in the description and as
well as the promo code for a 10% off all right you also rkr for 10% off these are the gloves what I
like about honest they have this cushion up here you can see all this padding for your knuckles so
when you're turning a wrench or anything loose you hit something you're on bust your knuckles
we've all been there also right here on the for your thumb you have a bone that protrudes out
so you've got some extra padding right here both sides reinforce real real creepy real rough real
thick also some reflective material across the foot and no straps to worry about just
some elastic so that fit great this is going to help us this bill alright y'all so for your
belt right here you don't see like what I said before you see when you pull on that that pulley
that tensioner pulley you can get a lot more slack here with this belt now what I did to get it off
see what I mean it's really you roll it on like this watch your fingers so that's how you put
it on but you can see here but they have these gloves on it would have pinch my fingers pretty
good so in order to get it off same thing like I was just showing you pull on this here so y'all
can see grab hold of that pull on this take some tension off and just kind of roll it off of there
like that so that's on and off real quick this is the simplest fastest video that you'll find
on YouTube that's how you do it y'all see that big cut in the belt all those splits I got a
chunk missing it's definitely time to replace this so now you just take your new belt and we're gonna
pull this one off and reroute it all the way back around alright so so back here on the back side of
your mower I want you to look right under here so if y'all can see this is your deck belt the
one that's loose hanging off right here now what we are not changing and what I don't want you
can confuse with is the actual drive belt that runs the hydro pumps and I actually drives the
mower that's up a little higher so we will not be messing with that belt this is just for the deck
belt and now as you can see it's already loose just because when we pop it off and roll it off
so real simple um what I'm gonna do is go ahead and put that belt on put the new belt on from back
here you see it just drops down we'll pull this one out and I'll put the new belt on pull it back
up through through the front here and just reroute it up there and then put this on the last one on
that far side on the left side of the mower like I showed y'all so let's go ahead and do that real
quick alright so when you're putting your new belt on we're gonna like I said run it through starting
on that rear pulley first all the way in the back of the mower once y'all look closely this belt you
can see you have a flat side and then you have a tapered angle V side this is the side that goes
inside the pulley the flat side will be outside the pulley so this one actually goes in you want
to put the V side in first his angle down for the pulley now if you're looking here you can
see you've got your diagram so uh what I'm gonna go ahead and do like I said you can just roll roll
this belt off here pretty much now everything's loose there's no tension on on the deck pulleys
at all so you pull all these off also the diagram that's on here you can see those part numbers and
it'll have like 48 inch 50 to 60 and 72 those are so like this is a 60-inch deck you would want that
belt part number because all the buildings are dependent of course for different size is gonna
depend on what you need so here's the old belt right here y'all gonna see that definitely time
for a new one it is all split and cracked up crack splits all along it so definitely time
for another belt bringing y'all in a little closer and I want y'all to see so you see your tensioner
idler pulley get the spring you want to feed the belt in under that and then when you come over
here I think you see you got that bar that runs across down there make sure it doesn't go under
that back to the pulley it's got to go over it so the way I have it right now it's fed in between
under here y'all can see and then going back here over the top and now we can run it to the back put
it on our rear pulley so with the belt run from hooked on the rear pulley coming through come in
over the top of that bar that's under the mower in between underneath the idler pulley arm you're
looking at the diagram so I'm gonna start over here the left side with the left side of the belt
which is right here these side and we're going to turn it this is going to go in between here it's
going to go in here out in around this pulley make sure it goes in between the little arms
now round here this side let's just see where I am so far so this is where we are so far now up
around that sides coming out on the Left coming in here it's already hard to get it get y'all
good view on this one doing my best alright now I want to clarify something with y'all so
I said the V side the angled side is going to be in on the police now y'all can see we're on
the idler pulleys such as this one right here the flat side is going to be in on that pulley
because the way the way it runs it's going to run up from the back and the flat side that's
going to run here your angled side is gonna run on your your drive pulley so one blade
your second wave your third blade you're gonna have the angled side in these either the police
like this like this are gonna run the flat side of the backside of the belt so it's one
to clarify that alright y'all so when you come around here like I said you're coming off that
side you're running off of this side here when you're coming in from the back you've got your
flat side back side of the belt running around over here to your right blade angled side in
you've got angled side in all the way over here come to your Center blade you'll come in around
here like that and like I said you got this is the back side of the blade here it's gonna be
just like this on this other idler pulley so just like that and now the last thing to do
like you've already seen and the same the same thing here with your your this other the tension
pulley the spring on it you've got the back side facing it also and now the last thing to
do is come all the way over here to the side and roll it on just like we did before all right so
so here we are we're back here to this spot where we're gonna pull
here and now with the tension this on here give this a good get a good
grip on it like I showed you pull it on like that then roll that bitch'll
all right y'all roll it watch fingers put into the room almost boom got it so now can
you see here everything zone give it a good turn see everything's turning and see the
rear one either everything looks good so one last thing to do I would advise doing
this I'm going to go ahead and start them over up and we'll turn the blades on and
make sure make sure everything's going to want to function and work properly
and that's it for this video thank you all for watching I hope you like it go ahead and smash
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