Local shop put the wrong size belt on the wrong way. It felt way too tight, so I took it apart and found what they didn't think I would thanks to these videos. I saved $200 by servicing my own deck belt and blades. (I just dropped the deck and took it from there!)

I needed to replace the deck belt on my grandpa's Bronco Troy Bilt. I followed the instructions on how to replace the belt but I didn't want to take off the actual deck itself, so the only challenge was loosening the pulleys required. Got the yard mowed and it's great.

Remove guards Remove old belt Loosen 9/16 bolt on right outside pulley- using 9/16 socket on top and 9/16 wrench to hold on bottom - don’t remove just tilt it enough to get new belt over pulley. Remove belt keep med wire over front drive pulley - (9/16 bolt on left and other end slips into place through frame hole-route new pulley and tighten right pulley using socket and wrench. Test new belt with tension lever and use your hands to pull belt through its path for blades to turn. Use any adhesive tape to tape 9/16” bolt to the socket ( make hole for threads ) Mount wire keeper in place. I leave the tape and don’t put L & R guards back in place- I do put all 6 bolts for guards back on deck to keep grass out of holes Good luck

Excellent video, I followed this and had no issues swapping the belt on my mower. Thanks for putting out quality material!!

That's what I needed!!! Thanks for getting straight to the point! No extra work, and no extra talking!!

thanks for the help I left my mower in the garage for 2 years and this video help me put a new belt on thanks again thumbs up

I have owned a Troy Bilt for the last 18 years and this is my National Pastime...

Was very helpful when it come time to put it all together again...I had forgot the proper order and had many problems. Ye Olde Road Warrior

A BIG THANK YOU I was looking for a phone number to get my mower fixed until I saw you video WOW I thank the Lord and you😊

Great joy. Thanks very much. Mike

Very easy to understand and helped me quickly. Thank you very much for your video.

Is there ANY way to tighten the deck belt ? I have hours of frustration with this ..........

For a person that has no mechanical inclinations this was absolutely perfect. Thanks!

We replace the belt with the right size but for some reason I can't get the slack out of it. Once it's Crunk and you engage the blades the belt comes off. What am I not doing?

Why would you disconnect the hot and not the negative? Good way to short out the cable and put on a light show...

the belt that drives the blades is 10 years old, I only just yesterday decide to R&R the belt. .I R&R the belt leaving the deck attached, it's easy.

Thank You for making this video, I could not figure out where the idler pulley bracket that the pto spring attached to !

Basically I fixed mine This video helps but you don’t need to follow it to a T I did not slide out the entire thing And I didn’t loosen the inner pullies I just worked then in.

Thanks. Great instructions.

Thanks for this, It helped me get my deck back on after I had to take it off to replace the blades and couldnt remember where that spring attached to. :)

they are very good mowers

I should have taken a couple more pictures which is my fault...but I've got 2 springs and I'm not sure where they go. Manual or vid springs seem to be glossed over

Make sure belt keepers are close to pulley to keep that sucker from flying off. I find belts on mine tend to come off when you disengage PTO.

Well I can't get the belt on because there's not enough slack to get it around every pulley and still have the deck line up with its connection points. Nobody addresses this everybody just throws that belt right around the engine pulley like it's got all the slack in the world. I've watched 24 videos and everybody has missed that to explain it.

where do you attach the deck belt spring to????

I have troy bilt pony 42 inch mower but this belt was too big when I put it on

How do I take of the belt on my snapper

Time saving.

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Is there a way to tighten deck belts?

i have one and trying to get the deck belt

Why would your belt keep coming off

Where hors the second spring ? One for the Clutch for put on the Mower where goes the second one??mine is broken i dont know where to connect

I love how companies make their instructions look so easy. Lol this is alot more complicated than it looks

What about the belt frim deck to under the seat?

This was way better than staring at exploded diagrams, but lose the part about the key, spark plug, and battery disconnect. It's a mechanical problem, not an electrical one! The mower cannot "accidentally" start if you're not on the seat! All I needed to do was replace the PTO spring for which the local rip off mower shop would've charged me $200! Learn to fix your own stuff is the way to go.

You guys need to fix this video. After a new belt lasting about 5 mows falls off and totally worn down, I finally figured out what was going on. I'm by no means a mechanical genius, thereby my having to use this video. You guys did not put the belt back where it was originally when you took the belt off. I paid attention to the putting belt back on part and you can see where the belt guard is rotated around to t he wrong place. Makes for extreme belt wear and my newest belt just snapped right off cause of it. Finally figured it out by seeing where it was located when you took the belt off. Being this is a TROY BILT video and not just some dude, you should at least take the time to do the thing right.

I followed these steps but now it shreds my new belts I’ve replaced all the belts and pulleys and no change

this video is pointless,all you have to do is remove the 2 main pulley covers and loosen one idler pulley to get the belt off,without removing the deck and all that other crap!

I'm having a problem with a troybuilt riding mower pto. when engaged the blades stop and vice versa. any suggestions?

At the 1:34 mark, what kind of bolts are used for the outer deck covers? And how many?

Waste of time. It takes longer to take the deck off than the belt replacement. Lower deck, remove the pulley covers, loosen bracket at motor pulley and remove belt. Install new belt in reverse order. Takes about ten minutes for the average person.

What size mower deck belt does it take for 212-5 toro mower

Belt look good. Could it just happen to have come off pully?

Great value for product

This was a good tutorial but you could make one replacing the idler bracket

I didn't even need to fix a lawn mower but I watched anyway LUL

is there any way to adjust the speed of a self propelled mower I have had hip surgery and now the mower pulls me too fast on a troy bilt 12a-46-mo11

This is probably the easiest deck to remove I've ever seen but you don't tell us what the belt number is or size

Looks simple enougb

Never disconnect the red cable first (positive), ALWAYS negative cable first...

why did you rotate the belt guard 90 degrees (the left pulley as you look at the video) ? I believe there is a notch to seat it rotated 90 degrees right as you view it. Won't the belt jump off as shown? There must be some deleterious effect.

i have a pony...i got it off a neighbor for 50.00 it needed 100.00 in parts to fix it now runs again..ignition coil ,starter,battery n spark plug..

I need to call from my riding mower Craftsman

Generally good, but there needs be more and careful visual info about where the PTO spring is connected!

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Kunitz belt t1880

How do I adjust my drive belt?

42" deck what size of belt it takes? I put a 109inc to big it came off..this is the model #13at609g766 super bronco

That’s funny right there

troy built bronco problems i made video to show what happened and not sure why .troy built mower HELP is the video and it is a 2016 model bought brand new

Does it matter if the pto spring end is upside down or right side up?

For safety, insulate wrench handle with electrical tape.

Just bought a new Pony. Is it normal for the mower to sound like all hell is brakng loose when you engage the blades?

I have 3 Troy-bilt walk behind mowers and bought the Pony because I had good luck with walk behinds. What a mistake, this thing shakes itself to death from day one. After one year and a new deck, spindles, pulleys, belt, etc... it's no better but my pocket book is a lot lighter. Never again will I purchase a Troy-Bilt product. The only thing good I can say about the Pony is it has a nice paint job.

Anybody that might need to unhook and disable every part of the electric system before changing a belt on a mower that isnt running and the key is and no one sitting on the seat to disable that safety because of this way over the top , political correct, safety measure to prevent a thing that can't happen and probably never has , this person should put the tools up , shut the hood and call someone with common sense to just sit them in the corner and away from the key while they safely slip that belt on. I'd say for those who let them who direct there motions in matters of safety thru multiple fail safe steps so as to give credit to there communist training measures that are designed to train them to follow dictorial instructions by habit and adhere to the correctness , no matter how unnecessary and ridiculous it obviously is ! But your vid , showed me the routing pattern and I appreciate that!

A Deck belt Should last us for years but they don't . The main problem with them is We have a single long belt, that has to drive multiple blades. Belt failure is inevitable But It not just cause by heat though it can be cause by friction As we all know, that if the deck belt come in to contact with any metal on the deck that not a roller that metal will soon chew though the deck belt, and brake it. The main problem is! That single little deck belt can be driving up to three blades. Imagine you have a term of 18 horses pulling on that single 1/2 " belt on most engines on a car or farm machinery they have multiple belts one for each load on a push mower we have 6 hp engine driving a single blade But with multiple blades we have three times the Brake hose power 18 hp to a 24 hp engine pulling on a single 1/2 " deck belt. It why After a while the over loaded deck belt will start to stretch. And then brake. On on a walk behind mower. on most mowers The engine shaft spins at 2900 rpm But on a ride on mower they typically spin between 2700 and 3200 rpm So that blade is doing over 200 mph plus, at the tip of the blade. In most countries The governments regulates the max tip speed of the blades on all mowers. There controlled though the engineering of the rpm of the engine. The key to long lasting deck belts is to cause let load on the blades. You can achieve this just by keeping the blades sharp. Once the blades go blunt they put more strain on the deck belt and can stretch it.

I wish I had never bought this model. It’s a pain.

Skip first 10 steps thank me later

How loose should the belt be when not engaged ?

looks like cub cadet

I dropped the deck, put the belt on and now I have a cotter pin left over. I hate this mower!!

PARA DESCONECTAR UNA BATERIA, POR SEGURIDAD SE DEBE DESCONECTAR EL TERMINAL NEGATIVO, EVITANDO ASI GOLPE ELECTRICO.

Did anybody else's PTO cable break after turning the blades on?

I hava a 2011 Troy Bilt Horse XP with 46" deck (mod 13WX79KT011). The deck parts diagram specifies a 103.25"x .05" deck belt but this must be incorrect. I have replaced this belt 3x with different brands of v-belts of this recommended size, and ALL of them were so loose that blades would not engage after pto was engaged. All pulleys are good, new pto cable and spring, belts all routed correctly but still no joy. The recommended v-belt size of 103.25" x .05"is INCORRECT. Installing a 102.25" x .05" belt works just fine though, so if your deck hardware is in good shape, your "recommended" deck belt is new and routed correctly but after engaging the pto your belt is still too loose to engage the blades...go with a smaller belt than what the parts diagram shows. This problem seems to be very common to Troy Bilt mowers, and this will save you from endless hours of frustration!

This really made it easy to change the belt, but the belt is so loose that it won't engage the blades. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or if the old belt was loose in the first place and that's why it broke and needed to be replaced. I really don't want to keep spending $300 at a time to have the mower towed and fixed but it keeps happening. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Ridiculous! I will never buy a Troy Bilt again bc of how difficult it is to change the blades and belts!!

I don't know who taught you how to be a mechanic but you always remove the negative cable.

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My friend replaced mine never removed the deck.

Deck belt size troy build pony

I replaced the belt on my bronco mower and now the blades won't engage. I did pet the belt on the same way it came off Please can anyone give me some info of what it could be

This Is Hard For Me To Do...... -____-

Way too much info, video is obviously made by someone in a shop who does this all the time, looses sight of the home owner that has never done this before. Mower used looks new, like 1940's model. Needs to update to atleast year 2000.

Will somebody look at my Video and tell me what is wrong? And how I can fix the problem that I am having?

I have a question, maybe you can help me, Coincidentally, I recently changed the drive belt and I don't know if that will be the cause of my problem, I have a Troy bilt pony (2011), now I can only control the speed with the throttle lever, even when I put it in rabbit mode the motor goes at high rpm, but the ground speed is about half the normal speed; the (yellow on mine) speed control lever doesn’t work, it goes up and down without locking the notches, offers no resistance and does nothing. (however, the engaging of the parking brake action works fine). I opened up the mower and saw the yellow speed control lever attached to a connecting rod which is attached down there to the cupped metal piece in the correct position as the new Troy Bilt Pony I saw yesterday at Home Depot, but besides allowing to be put in in park position, I don’t see it attached to anything else, is it right? How does it regulate the speed if it is not connected to anything else? Thank you in advance.

Mines a pos. And it's brand new. Hate it

Looks similar to my Huskee 46” which I bought used with mower deck detached. Owners manual has one diagram and no other directions. Wish the mfr would make a video like this.

That belt was loose af when he was done, no way that doesn't slip and burn up once engaged. Have one of these and someone threw the original belt away, out the replacement belt on and it will not cut, just slips on the pulleys. And yes all pulleys are free and not binding etc. Bought the belt number that is stamped on the deck and routed accordingly. About to scrap this troy bolt and buy a cc or JD.

Step 1: remove the spark plug, and cancel your lawsuit

TGBTHP

I've bought so many belts. Still no one ever mentions how many damn inch the belt is???? Jesus Christ. Google doesn't either

Disconnect the battery?! What is this, France???!!?!

got a toro 465 eating up belts

Do not follow this video. Never remove the positive terminal of a battery without first removing the ground terminal and if you remove the ground terminal you do not need to remove the positive terminal.

whatta hell happened with extra 18 inches of belt?

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Don't buy a Troy built unless you want to do this sever times a year!

I hate to down talk things but stay away from troy built riders an cub junket .

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