Dimitrios Paskoudniakis wrote:
"Mortimer Schnerd" wrote in message
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I've got a John Deere L110 lawn tractor that I want to replace the
mower blades on. Today I drove it up onto a set of car ramps and
reached up under it to try to remove the two blades. All I managed
to accomplish today was refill the tires with air and remove some
twine that had wrapped itself tenaciously around the hub of the
blade. As for loosening the two end caps that actually hold the
blades on: forget it. I couldn't budge any of them.

Looking in the owner's manual says they're supposed to be torqued to
42 ft-lbs. Well, even using a piece of pipe as a cheat, I got
nowhere. Are these things reversed threaded? Is there a trick I
don't know? I was using a 1/2" socket wrench with a 15mm socket.
Maybe I need to move up to a bigger wrench?

I hate to pay for something I should be able to do myself.




Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerd at carolina.rr.com

You must remove the deck, turn it over, then remove the blades. Guess
what, it's easy.

It really is. Lower the deck, pull 4 to 6 pins depending, and slide it
out, usually to the left side.