My husband was able to replace the drive belt after it had shredded off of our John Deere X590 lawn tractor thanks to your video. He said what especially helped was how you described getting the belt on the tracks. Due to the fact that the belt was not on the tractor prior to replacing it and the owners manual had absolutely no instructions on how to change the belt your guidance was tremendously valuable and appreciated. Thank You!

Couldn’t of done this without your video, thank you!

Wonderful video! Thank you so much! The dealership has always changed the belts for me before on my 2010 X500. Since I've recently retired I thought I would give it the college try!. Excellent step by step video. The brake drum tool worked great! Thank you again!

Great demonstration, will probably be needing to do this soon for a friend, really helps out!

thanks so much for this video - it was really helpful and gave me the confidence to change my drive belt. It took a few hours but was fairly straightforward when following your instructions. And the break spring tool worked well!

You are a lifesaver. Thanks for showing this video it helped me out a ton on my John Deere

Thanks mate.. I'll be doing that tonight on my x570. You made it look easy. Where john deere is saying it's a big job and not cheap. Thanks again buddy..

Brilliant - just what I needed to see!

Great video!! I suck at fixing things but I did it with your help!

Thanks! Somehow a stick managed to dislodge the spring on the idler pulley and belt came off. It was not obvious to me the proper path of the belt through the pulleys and where the spring attached, so this really saved me!

Great Job!!!! Going to do mine now. Thanks

Thanks brother great info keep on videos detailed 👌

Use a piece of string or twine to put spring on. If you do not have a spring puller or a brake drum tool. String or Twine is easier. Great video!

Great video. Thanks! I'm about to swap out the belt on my X584. I won't have to remove the steering arms since this machine has power steering, but all the other steps you detail should be relevant.

I don't think I would have gotten the new belt on without this video, THANKS!!! Now that it's on and working I see slop in the belt and is barely brushing up against the frame as it flutters. Wondering if the spring lost tension...

Wonderful tutorial, the job is not too bad with the right intel. Have to get machine up in air with ramps, good jack. 24mm socket is a big one. Not too sure about part # for pulley as nothing comes up with AUC 11241?

Lonnie, I owe you a beer!

Good information Good video 📹 👍

Very nice video. Helped me change out a melted tensioner pulley. So here is something I discovered that might help other X-570 owners that have a melted drive pulley. I have a 54 inch deck and I noticed a METAL pulley on the deck that was the same size in every dimension, outer/inner diameter , bearing, bolt size, as the plastic one so I tried it in the drive position and it worked great. I had to hammer out the center boss from the bearing of the plastic pulley and tap it into the new metal pulley. Then just put it on like the plastic one. The Pulley JD part no. is TCA 17146. Hope this helps fix the melting plastic pulley problem.

Great video, would this be the exact the same procedure for my 2017 x584? Thanks!

Thanks!

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I just put a new belt on and I had a lot more issues than you did. After I got the pulleys installed and the belt through them, I put the front of the belt on and then tried to do the rear. That would not work on my X500 either because of the belt length or differences in the pulley sizes. The only way it would allow me to put the new belt on was to go to the rear pulley first put the belt over the fan and rear pulley down on the pulley shaft. Then I could install the front pulley and then the rear pulley up on the pulley. The belt was not long enough to go over the fan blades if the front pulley was on.

How do you get the old belt out around the steering column? I followed everything you did, but can’t get it around the column to pull it all the way out in one piece.

This is the best procedure I've seen for this, thanks for the video. One question - was the parking brake on or off during this, or does it not matter at all?

Just did this on my X570 last week. Very disappointed that Deere discontinued the steel idler pulley and now only offers the nylon one. The original lasted 500 hours before the bushing started to go bad (along with the belt)...I'll be surprised if the new idler lasts that long. Not sure if you mentioned it in the video, but how many hours are on your X570?

This is a helpful video folks . However a word of caution if you are elderly and cannot do heavy or involved repair work. The local Deere dealer where I bought my X570 just quoted me to do the 200 hour service , changing the tranny fluid and drive belt, close to $1000.00 & pickup and delivery from 9 miles away was $150.00. I would say this model tractor might be a little expensive to own

I've watched someone else do it with the mower sitting up on it's back tires with more room but you seemed to do it easier than he did and did not remove as much. Great video and you made it look.......better. What's an air wrench??? 🤣🤣 Never ever owned one.

Great video. One dislike because you didn't go to his house and do it for him.

What the f__k ? all that shit just to change a f__king belt !!!

Ugggg… not looking forward to this.