JD L100 Lever to engage mower will not move - Garden

SOURCE: Blades will not engage

Lever that adjusts height does not make blades turn. You need to engage the blade lever and if you can not tell if the blades are turning then they probably aren't. check belt it could need replacement.

SOURCE: Engine starts and runs Great. When I engage the

at the point of lowering the pto it's trying tosuck more air to mix with the gas .you might just need to change the air filter.

SOURCE: i have a 18.5 hp 42

When you move the lever and engage the blades you are also engaging the belt that drives the blades and sits on top of the mowing deck. Chances are that belt either came off one or more rollers, or broke. The only way to check it out is to get down and look on the top of the mowing deck. Get back and let me know what you find.

Wade Mobley

• 513 Answers
• Posted on Jun 27, 2010

SOURCE: Bolens clutch wont engage

check to see if there is something caught around the blades that won't allow to turn

SOURCE: blade engagement lever won't disengage

If this is a manual engagment system all the lever does is to pull a jockey wheel into the back of the belt to tention it thus starting the blades to turn, so either the cable is jammed that pulls the jockey wheel in, or the jockey wheel arm is seized and needs freeing off to allow the jockey to to move to the relaxed position.