Sears tractor keeps destroying pulleys

 Hello

My Sears 1000 XLT tractor is driving absloulutely nuts . The pulley
that drives the left side blade keeps stripping. The pulley is
attached to it's shaft with a star connection. If I hit a root or
stick or for whatever season the blade is stopped the belt will keep
the pulley spinning and the connection is destroyed. The star opening
on the pulley gets every so slightly stripped and enlarged and begins
to saw away at the spindle destroying both within seconds. This
happens only on the left blade, never on the right. To replace the
pulley and spindle costs me about $60 each time. so far in the two
years that I have owned time machine this happened 4 times! Can anyone
tell me what going wrong ?

John

 wrote:


Steel is not just steel. Properly heat treating the correct type
of steel makes a huge difference in the longevity of a splined
connection.

Are your replacement parts aftermarket parts? Did Sears change their
supplier of parts? Can you swap left from right to troubleshoot this
possibility.

 tnom wrote:


think about it like this this.  the piece of junk was built
by the low bidder who LOL every time they think of how they
did not have to put their name on that piece of crap they
sold sears.  

[....]

new low bidder for lots of replacement parts.  


--
sears - where girlie-guys wives take them to shop

 

Worked for Sears for 15 years before retiring.  It was my experience that it
was the other way around.  Suppliers hated (not really)  Sears because they
required a better product than the supplier provided under it's own name.
Sears bought without manufacturer's warranty and thus was stuck with the
repair costs if the product didn't hold up.  I doubt that Sears went for the
lowest bidder as they never had a problem with marking up any product.  Of
course, with the current competition from the other big boxes, they may have
changed their ways.

Tom G.

 Tom G wrote:


sears the girlie-guy store with the [cheap crappy made] no
name junk for sale and that's always going to be the free
publicity sears gets from me.