Yup, I'll never again have any respect for the Husqvarna name.
For the past 3 days, I've been farting around with my 22hp Husqvarna mower. The belt decided it wanted to be replaced. The mower was bought late in 2016. After just a few times mowing, the left spindle housing broke and the blade dug deep in the ground. Contacted a lot of different people/places before finally getting through to the folks who handle the warranty claims. They said at first that they were not going to replace the spindle, as that part is not covered by the warranty. ...It was about this time that I made another trip into orbit!
Well, they finally relented and sent out a replacement spindle. In the meantime, I ordered a replacement from Amazon as it would get here much quicker. Thought I'd be smart and get one with a grease zerk. Wrong! Not enough height to have a zerk sticking out the top of the spindle shaft. So for a while, I couldn't mow with the deck at highest setting.
Now for another strange thing. Since new, this mower scalps the ground when lower than the highest setting. When I pull onto a hard, level surface, cannot move the adjustment lever lower than the '3' position, and the deck stops moving halfway between '3' and '4'.
Well, the replacement spindle arrived and, when I went to remove the Amazon spindle, one of the bolts broke. On the original spindle, three corners of the casting broke, along with their respective bolts. Yesterday and today I've been trying to find my grade 8 replacement "thru" bolts, as the first two bolts on the right spindle broke with almost no force. Today I tried to remove the other two carefully -- they broke also.
So, now I have to make a choice: do I order another new spindle, but without the zerk? Or do I try to drill out another spindle? Hmm...I wonder if the drill bit would stay on the bolt or slide into the softer aluminum? Well, guess I'm ordering a spindle!
I'm getting sick-n-dang tired of everything these days being engineered to fail.
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