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Old 06-22-2018, 07:16 AM
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If your happy we are happy.
Exactly! Treat it better than the manual suggest and it should serve you well hopefully for many years. Try pulling stumps with it or other hardcore duties and you will be SOL.
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Enjoy your new cub! As long as it does what you need it to do, that's all that matters.
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In Canada they sell the XT1 LT46 with a single cylinder 19hp Kohler Courage OHV engine and a Tuff Torq K46,
the cheapest duo who "Grenade" itself before 500hr or less. (Some even crap out at 250hr)

In USA the same tractor came with a 22 HP Kohler 7000 Series V-Twin OHV engine for those who don't know
the 7000 series design is based on the KOHLER Command engine not the Courage but they still come with the crappy Tuff Torq K46.

3 recommendations I hope the OP take seriously.
1- NEVER EVER overheat that tranny.(About 1hr of work on a very hot day)
2- Don't tow anything heavy (Let's say 200lbs max)
3- Make lot of research about the K46 tranny mod(Changing the oil every 100hrs is what you want)
Now for belt alignment and all deck relate problems your on you own and since you like "wrenching" I bet after few swears session you get use to it.
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Old 06-24-2018, 06:37 AM
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I bought my first riding lawnmower, used, about 6 years ago. It was a CubCadet 1020 with a Briggs & Stratton 10hp engine with a small 32" deck.
It wasnt the prettiest, but it ran...for a while.
I paid $150 for it from a coworker. Within 2 months the engine broke a rod. I tore it apart and rebuilt it. Wasnt too hard. Its been a good mower, but now after buying a house with a larger yard, it seems it keeps wanting to have issues.
Its not running right, mostly when u engage the blades.
I think its got a governer issue.
It also needs more tlc. I haven't been able to mow with it for a few months now.
My inlaws gave me their old Simplicty mower with a 38" deck and a 12.5hp engine. But its tranny or clutch is shot and sucks to change gears.
Ive had enough dealing with these old handme-down mowers. I decided i deserve a brand new one.
I hitched up my enclosed trailer and drove 1 hour to HomeDepot and bought the XT1 LT46.
So happy with it.
Awesome purchase and a wise one that was purchased based on what the tractor was engineered for which is light yard work. I just bought the XT3 and love it, but I knew I would be doing some heavy duty work, pulling, going up/down step rough hills etc and it's the reason I bought a heavier tractor. I looked at the XT1 and XT2 models and I would buy them in a heart beat if I was only going to do mowing and light duty work with it. Don't let the others second guess your decision. I remember a time when MTD bought Cub Cadet and MTD switched out the old cast iron housed tranny for an aluminum one and you'd would think the world had come to and end because those "cheapo" aluminum ones wouldn't hold up and were not a "garden tractor" anyone. Guess what, they held up because they were designed to be used for that purpose and now those same tractors are almost god-like similar to how others view the IH cubs. Cub Cadet designs and builds a wide range of products to suite many needs. So why pay $5000 to mow a yard for many years if a $1,700 unit will do the same thing?
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Yeah its just going to get used to mow my yard, and occasionally my neighbors yard, he is bad at not mowing and hes got a big area right in front of our house across the street that we gotta look at and i hate when it gets tall and he doesnt mow it lol.
I may get a small cart for picking up sticks to pull behind it, beats dragging the wheel barrow around the yard.

Right now i just had a few yrds of black dirt delivered that im filling in some holes and leveling off some bad areas of the yard. Then gonna do some more grass seed.

Not sure if im liking the floating deck or not. It doesnt seem to like unlevel areas, or im doing something wrong. Scalped the grass and ground in a few spots.
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