Deck fitment questions

[Shrewcub]

If it was 50 miles or less from me at that price, I would get it. The shell and spindles are exactly the same as a 44c. The difference is in the reinforcement plate and front mount. Both could be swapped in an hour orso if you have a welder to do the front bracket. I have been doing a lot of deck research over the last few days and learned something I didn't know today. Sorry its not what you needed.

[dodge trucker]

Yeah I do have a couple of welders and a oxyacetylene torch plus a 15T press and a 2 post car hoist in my garage at home.
So if I take the front hanger mount off of one of these nasty rust bucket decks I have here and swap it over that deck would work for me then?
It is more than 50 miles away but was thinking it might be nice to go for a ride up that way as I haven't been up that way in years...

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by dodge trucker

Yeah I do have a couple of welders and a oxyacetylene torch plus a 15T press and a 2 post car hoist in my garage at home.
So if I take the front hanger mount off of one of these nasty rust bucket decks I have here and swap it over that deck would work for me then?
It is more than 50 miles away but was thinking it might be nice to go for a ride up that way as I haven't been up that way in years...

It won't work..... let it go. It's a lawn tractor deck. Keep looking, what you need is out there.

[Shrewcub]

I have looked very closely at these decks today and the stamped shell is identical to that used on the 44c. You can even see the holes for the rear hangers are drilled. If your reinforcement plate is good. I don't see it as a problem. Roland even said it was a 44c in his first post. which is wrong but close. Its your choice as to whether you want to trust me or the "experts'. Sorry for your first thread going like this. I am 99.9% sure that the same stamped shell was used for the 392 LT deck as the 44C GT deck. Just different pieces bolted or welded onto it. Only you know how bad you need a deck and what your skills are. I know I could make this work. I just don't need another deck right now.

[dodge trucker]

thats OK, I am trying to learn the "quirks" of these machines, to me it looked close enough that it might work, I am not as "up" on what swaps over and what won't between the different models of these tractors....
I most likely won't do anything with this deck, but just wanted to know what the "experts" (Which I ain't) thought....

[Shrewcub]

I still don't understand all the numbers yet either, but I am pretty good with the parts site. Play around with it and you'll get the hang of it. Again,

[dodge trucker]

more deck confusion...
I did not wind up getting the 392 deck that made me start this thread, been hunting but cannot find a decent 44a/44c or 50a/50c deck closer than a 150 miles or less than $150, with many sellers wanting $250 or more.
so I found another 392 LT deck on Feebay for the same $50 as the original one that I was loooking at when I started this thread. even with other sellers having the same deck even, for $250, nobody was biting on this one for $50 so I did... just waiting for it to get here... I stripped apart my worst 44a and saved the front mount plate, scalp roller and rear hangers to transfer to this deck.
I do have a reinforcement plate from the salvaged 44a, would I really have to swap that plat out or just "use the needed holes" in the 392 plate?
When done it will basically be a 44c.

will need at least a center stack pulley for a 44a/44c, will have to see what shape the existing outers are in, when my 392 one gets here.

I also have 2 triangle decks, one is loud as He11, and either a 38 or 42, I have a 48 here that is complete but rusty, have not yet run to see if quiet. I'd like to find a better shell to transfer the parts over to.
I also have a bare 50a shell in real nice shape and a set of used but "quiet when pulled" water pump bearing style spindles but pulleys on them are worn to knife edge and a seized idler.

are any parts compatible between triangle decks with a cast iron nose and a 44a/c or 50a/c? (spindles and pulleys maybe?)

[dodge trucker]

reviving an ancient thread...

In case "anybody" is desparate for a deck for their machine and happens to trip upon one of these 392 decks.... I wound up tripping onto 2 of them and another rotten 44a graciously coughed up its few remaining salvageable bits
so I have 2 392 deck shells and remnants of 2 rotten, "patch over patch" 44a decks.

as was said by someone in here, yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus

with a few minutes spent with a torch or grinder on an otherwise unsalvageable 44a or 44c, and the time to unbolt the parts so attached to that junk deck,
then followed a little more than a few minutes cleaning up said remnants to get them ready for re-use, YES, the 392 deck can be repurposed to fit onto a WF or a QL mower....
now that I am cooled off-- sometimes a break in the AC is just what is needed.... back to the grind stone, and time to break out the MIG.
then out comes the POR 15 and brush
and so on.

[V30crewcab]

glad it worked out for you. I think the decks on these old ones get the most abuse since they get put away wet after mowing.

[dodge trucker]

Yeah I figured it might be good info for someone, at least I hoped that it might be. I used to be more willing to experiment when I was younger and had Dad to come to the rescue when I messed up and needed more money for parts but I'm a Dad now, and have enough to do between work and "putting out fires" so to speak, from my own son/ so it hurts a bit more in the wallet when an experiment goes wrong