Hi there,
If possible, looking for a bit of mechanical advice with a 2008 Hayter 48 Pro and an issue with the rear drive roller.
Background: My (very) old, inherited from my grandfather, Hayter 48 Pro sadly died a proper death recently, I think it threw a rod, not 100%, but sounded pretty terminal. Given its age, I decided to look for a new (second hand) model and found a 2008 48 Pro that had been professionally serviced with new parts looking all shiny.
I'm in no way having a moan at the purchase, it has covered 3 mows just perfectly, and continues to cut beautifully, apart from a newly developed issue with the rear drive roller. Just means it is bloody heavy to push.
In short, when you press the bar to engage the roller to move the mower forward, it turns, and tries to move the mower, but doesn't seem to have the power to drive it forwards. If I lift the back of the mower up, you can see the roller turning when engaged, then stops when disengaged, but put the mower back on the ground and it tries to move forwards, but just squeaks a bit and fails. Almost sounds a bit like a car cam-belt (but not quite).
I'm not overly mechanically minded, but don't mind a bit of investigative work, and happy to take a look, but struggling for initial information to help me diagnose what is going on, and last thing I wanted was to pull it to bits and someone say "oh yeah, that's quite common, it's the left phalange that's stuck and needs a bit of grease" lol.
If anyone has an idea, happy to listen to info. (if it uploads, I've tried to demonstrate the issue in a video)
Thanks muchly.
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Harry
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Im not a mechanical genius... but all I would say is 2024 minus 2008, means your new mower is 16 years old - and unless you know the chap you bought it off, and know how it was looked after you have no guaruntee that it isnt just worn out. While it should last a lot longer than the the 3 year warranty, 5 times that is stretching the boundaries.
I made a habit of buying 2nd hand mowers when I had the business, every so often, despite trying to buy only from elderly Gents "downsizing" their properties occasionally I got a dud - my route was to take it to my friendly dealer, and get a professional diagnosis - then make the decision of keep or scrap.
Good luck
Can't recall when Hayter changed from the side drive engine (Briggs and Stratton), where the main things that could go wrong were drive cable out of adjustment/broken, belt slipping or worn out, roll pin in drive coupling snapped or the tensioning arm has pulled out of the backplate. (The last one now scraps the machine as deck parts for this type model are long since obsolete).
After this they changed to a different set up which unfortunately wasn't anywhere near as reliable and if a 'varispeed' was even worse. My local mower shop used to do some form of modification to delete the varispeed giving one fixed forward speed.
Thank you both, appreciate the responses.
Worth seeing if the cable will adjust up at all, it could be as simple as that. Unfortunately, given the age of the mower, it probably isn't.