CC 1862 pto belt routing

[shortbus]

Originally Posted by West Valley G

Well I'm confused as I have been taking the deck off and on including
replacing belts for 15 years on my 1862. Must be different kinds of
1862 decks and belts, interesting. The info I gave you came straight out
the owners manual from the factory. Hopefully someone can find a picture
of your setup. I would like to see it in case I run into in the future.
Glad you got it figured out.

Ken

hi again, look at the link that Darkminion gave. It shows what Mr. boob was talking about, not in the photos but in the text. It says the belt on the left side has to go outside of the left front hanger. The only way to do that is to drop the mower down.

I am pretty new to the Cub mowers but there does seem to be several different types of decks for each size of cut. I couldn't find a model number on my deck, it's been painted over the years and didn't want to scrape the paint off to find the stamped in numbers.

Does you deck have the main deck drive pulley in the center of the deck? Mine is on the left spindle not the center. Does you deck have a rod going over the top of the discharge chute? Mine does. Is it possible your deck is a 42 inch not a 44? My deck housing measures more like 48 inches from the left side to the end of the discharge chute.

The 1450 Cub I bought to make my crawler from had the drive pulley on the center spindle and was a 42 inch cut.

[West Valley G]

Thanks for trying to help me understand this. I suppose it's curiosity
more then anything. But then again if I wasn't curious I would not own these
things.
It must just be the style of the different size decks. Yes the pulley the
drive belt attaches to on the deck itself is dead center of the deck on top
of the other center pulley. All inside of the hangers.
It is a 54" deck though so figure that must be the difference. Glad your off
and running. I suppose if I would have looked up the part number you gave
from the get go I would have seen we were not talking about the same thing.

Ken

[shortbus]

Just want to say thank you to all of you who responded to my question!! I should have asked the question instead of reading through so many pages of posts in this implements forum

Again thank you for the help

[Mr Bob]

Shortbus, be sure the idler pulleys are angled toward the right looking from the front of tractor and not facing straight back. If they are facing straight back it would wear your belt very fast with the deck you are using.
Bob