Matt's pedal kit jamming my 48" deck lift

[ljfarraher 16]

Just tried installing a pedal kit for hydro drive by Matt on my 96 520H hydro and found the deck lift hardware jams the bottom of the pedal and when I try to locate it over a little more..the hardware holding the rod under the pedal then jams it.

Had to lower the deck to be able to stop..otherwise was like cruise control that was not releasing.

Any ideas of what I might have missed

[JoeM 7,874]

A few pics would help, my first though is the deck is lifting to high. ?/?

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

4 hours ago, JoeM said:

lifting to high

 

Should have stops to make that not possible?

 

@ljfarraher

Edited June 22, 2021 by Jeff-C175

[JoeM 7,874]

25 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

Should have

Some folks leave those rubbers off, need pics 

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

1 minute ago, JoeM said:

leave those rubbers off,

 

Practice SAFE MOWING!  Never do that!  ha ha ha 

[Handy Don 12,235]

8 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

Practice SAFE MOWING!  Never do that!  ha ha ha 

You're gonna need a time out, mister, I can tell. 

[JoeM 7,874]

leave those rubbers off, need pics
 

boy that didn’t sound too good! 

[ljfarraher 16]

On 6/22/2021 at 7:02 AM, JoeM said:

A few pics would help, my first though is the deck is lifting to high. ?/?

Does have the rubber stops in place on the rear of the lift arms.

[ljfarraher 16]

22 hours ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

Should have stops to make that not possible?

 

@ljfarraher

Stops are on..Yes..seems the front of the deck then pitches up when they hit the stops.

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

Just now, ljfarraher said:

seems the front of the deck then pitches up when they hit the stops.

 

That really should not happen though.  You may need to adjust the trunion that lifts the deck.  Sounds like it wants to pull up past max lift.  It should be adjusted so the stops just contact the footrests when the cylinder is topped out.

[Handy Don 12,235]

Exactly!

[ljfarraher 16]

19 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

That really should not happen though.  You may need to adjust the trunion that lifts the deck.  Sounds like it wants to pull up past max lift.  It should be adjusted so the stops just contact the footrests when the cylinder is topped out.

Had the foot rests off..but put one side on and found the stops are about 1/2 inch from hitting the bottom at full lift...and seen the beck DIDN'T pitch up more in the front like I thought..

 

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

Just now, ljfarraher said:

Had the foot rests off..but put one side on and found the stops are about 1/2 inch from hitting the bottom at full lift...and seen the beck DIDN'T pitch up more in the front like I thought..

 

 

Then I don't know what to tellya!  I've not used Matt's kit...

 

Here's the instruction for adjusting the trunion, the stops should contact the foot rests so you may want to adjust that after you've got the pedal thing sorted out:

 

 

And you might also want to check the level condition too, that's the trunion at the rear of the deck:

 

[ljfarraher 16]

I think I found an issue as to why I cannot get the foot convert to work..

On the leveler bar for a 48" deck part# 78360 is there 2 bars or 3 bars which includes the front to rear pitch bar??

Parts schematics show 2 and I have 3 welded in place on the cross bar which includes the one right under where the foot pedal would normally go.

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

16 minutes ago, ljfarraher said:

I have 3 welded in place

 

Pictures would really help diagnose!

 

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

20 minutes ago, ljfarraher said:

leveler bar for a 48" deck part# 78360 is there 2 bars or 3 bars which includes the front to rear pitch bar??

 

This is an older 48" deck but I don't believe there's any substantial difference in the layout.

Sorry I don't have a rear shot showing the back side more clearly...

 

[ljfarraher 16]

7 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

This is an older 48" deck but I don't believe there's any substantial difference in the layout.

Sorry I don't have a rear shot showing the back side more clearly...

 

That's what I thought..dang it..

I have a 3rd bar far to the right of your deck from front to rear and the middle bar in less than 1/2 inch from the center pully grease zerk..this has to be the wrong leveller arm for this deck when this guy re-done the tractor and deck.

Edited June 23, 2021 by ljfarraher

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

23 minutes ago, ljfarraher said:

I have a 3rd bar

 

Sometimes more bars are better... like when you get thrown out of one, you go down the road a piece to another.  

 

Can't you show us a picture?

 

[ljfarraher 16]

4 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

Sometimes more bars are better... like when you get thrown out of one, you go down the road a piece to another.  

 

Can't you show us a picture?

 

My town..ran outta bars..gotta quit getting thrown out so much..

Anyway..deck still under so hard to get pics and in middle of a cluster to clean and make room to get it off for pics..

Think I'm going to get an original and replace so I can use the pedal conversion. 

Only $90 so not bad to finish my project.

[oldhorse1 7]

Looking for contact information for Matt - 

Interested in one of his pedal kits for my 520. Tried emailing him, but the email I used was from a 2016/17 listing I came across on here. Anyone have anything contact info on Matt?

[Handy Don 12,235]

38 minutes ago, oldhorse1 said:

Looking for contact information for Matt - 

Interested in one of his pedal kits for my 520. Tried emailing him, but the email I used was from a 2016/17 listing I came across on here. Anyone have anything contact info on Matt?

Last time (until just now) when I looked, Matt was listed in the vendor section with contact info. I also looked at my copy of the install manual and there is no contact info listed.

 

Right now, however, there are NO topics visible in the Classified/Vendor page, which seems like something might be broken. One of the admins ( @admin or @stevasaurus or @Sparky ) may want to take a peek at that.

[oldhorse1 7]

Thanks HD. I appreciate the follow up.

[Lee1977 6,664]

The third bar is for the vacuum powered by the deck pulley to keep it level. I added the third bar to my deck to keep it level when the vacuum is on,  mine isn't power by the beck but wanted to hang down with the hose and chute is on

 

Is this the bar your deck has.

[giddyap 1,569]

On 6/23/2021 at 12:43 PM, ljfarraher said:

Sorry I don't have a rear shot showing the back side more clearly...

 

Is this the rear shot you speak of? This deck is new to me, the previous owner welded a plate all the way across. It's the best deck I've seen so I decided to undercoat it. At half the cost of POR-15 I used fiberglass resin .