On Jul 15, 8:55*am, texas slacker wrote:
Subject: *1997 Craftsman garden tractor. *18 horse Kohler engine.
Model 917.251492

This beast needs a brake job and it looks to be a real bitch to get to
the transaxle housing mounted rotor and pads.
It appears that the best way might me to remove the bolts holding the
housing from the frame and drop the whole rear end, but maybe not. *I
would appreciate hearing from anyone who has tackled this job. *Thanks

Not sure which setup you have, but most of them the caliper drops out
the bottom with little effort and the friction material is then free.
Generally it is in a terrible place to work though, lifting the rear
of the tractor helps a lot. It isn't all that heavy, but still block &
jackstand it properly, it would still hurt. If you really want to
disassemble something, removing the fender pan would give good access
from the fop.