Thought I'd have a quick look at the Self Drive Mechanism as I've not seen one of these before.

Very basic!!

First I had to take off the blade plate, and of course the nut was rusted and seized - but I learned my lesson from you guys doing this same job with The Triplets - lots of Penetrating Oil - gave it an hour and out with the Rattle Gun - BANG - off it came smile

The off with the Belt Drive mechanism cover - damn - didn't take any photos off the bottom of the mower before taking this off.

And this is what was inside the Belt Drive Mechanism....lots of rubbish - but not too bad.


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And inside the gear box that sits on top of the deck.

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Yuk - this has been full of water for quite some time - still - should be fixable - in fact it should come up well from what I can see so far.

Polybus