By
trolleybelle
Hello all, new to the forums here and relatively new to Wheel Horse. I purchased 310-8 (1989 I believe) from the daughter of its original owner last year and it came with a 42" rear discharge deck. In the past couple weeks I've been having some very loud vibration noises coming from. I removed the deck and found a lot of rub marks where the belt was hitting the deck but couldn't figure out why that was the case as the belt was nice and tight. My buddy who owns and works on wheel horses took a look at it and discovered cracking in the steel around the center spindle and theorized the spindle was oscillating up and down causing the belt to vibrate and rub on the deck. He's going to weld the deck up but told me I should source some new spindles as 2 of mine are really deteriorated.
So, short story long, does anyone know of a source for new spindles? What price can I expect to pay? I found a couple kits that have square bases but mine are round and I don't want to buy something that's not going to fit. Just looking for advice, thank you in advance!