How to replce a drive belt on a Cub Cadet LTX1045
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2025
- In this video I will be showing you the easiest way to replace a drive belt on a Cub Cadet LTX 1045 or any lawn tractor that has the same set up as mine. If you liked the video make sure to like, subscribe and comment down below if this video helped you or you have any questions.
Pulling the engine bolts is the easiest way I’ve seen and used to change my belt.!! Great tip. Instead of lifting the engine from above, I was able to slide it back 1/2 inch. Belt slid right on and I was able to just slide the engine back forward and bolt it down. I also stated my belt from the back through he pulleys. With the engine slid back it went right over front pulley. Thanks for this tip. Xcellent
Remove the pulley instead of engine bolts
Ty young man. Im going to replace mine soon as soon as I get the belt. I'm a 54 yr old female and appreciate your tutorial. You have helped greatly. Ive already had the deck off before to replace a deck pulley and replace the junk blades that came on it. I totally agree with you. I hate cub cadet. I will never buy one ever again when I have to replace.
Best Vid for showing new belt routing. NOTE: belt goes to the right of the steering column, as shown here.
Thank you so much Farmer Ryan! I heard it was a nightmare changing this drive belt but your instructions were so clear that even a beginner mechanic like me understood. My fiancé and I installed the belt in about 30 minutes thanks to you!
What about the shaft for the steering wheel? Do you simply place the belt to one side or the other? Only way to get belt on each side is to pull the steering wheel, correct?
@@MGoBlue100belt goes on left side of steering rod. It’s much easier to take pulley off of bottom of engine. It could fall off when you remove bolt or it may be extremely hard but I would try that before doing what this gentleman did.
Eh to think outside the box! I hit a bit of a wall. That bolt holding the pulleys would not budge but unbolting the engine worked like a charm.
Thank you so much!!👍😁
Thanks. I have a 1046. Will do this tomorrow. Good work. More sensible than playing video game.
Same here, Mine broke today mowing grass. Waiting on Monday to buy the belt.
Holy crap thank you! I could not figure out how to get that belt around that pulley until this video so thank you!
Took me a little bit but man did your video help me out today! Big thank you!
Farmer Ryan ,I liked your video and I’m gonna try to do the same thing on a piece of crap cub I have ,which is the same model. I’m not sure how long these lawnmowers are supposed to last mine does have almost 700 hours on it. I have already replaced both deck spindles and the stopper system for them And quite a few other items.Thanks again. Really Can’t afford to buy a new one tractor, especially now.
the plastic cooling fins are to cool the Hydrostatic Transmission--and YES they are very importnat!
Thanks for the tips - especially the engine bolts part. That saved me a bunch of time replacing the transmission belt for the LTX-1045. The only thing different from your video was the pulley guard around the rear transmission / fan pully. I ended up bending that thin metal away slightly to get the belt in and then bending it back into place. I used a Stens 265-213 from an amazon purchase for this job.
I ‘ve been going through all of these from everyone. Each is a little different. It amazing to me how after all these years and all the engineering that this is the best idea they could come up with. It's kinda like they said about the Air Force a long time back. Designed by engineers. Flown by college graduates maintained by high school drop outs.
Great video Good job for jumping in and working on something your not familiar with. Its the only way to learn.Good job !!!!!
I listened to you on another with camron you were very interesting. So I thought I'd check out your channel..I think my jr will like your channel and find it useful and helpful thank you
Thank you. Very good coaching.
Rick in York, pa
Thanks for the great tip. It made easy to install the belt by removing the 4 bolts to the motor.
Worked like a charm on my 1040. Beat the heck outta tryin to keep the pulley from turnin. Thanx
Any time
My cub cadet 2013. Got bolt out of motor shaft. Both pulleys welded to the shaft. Slid down one piece. Only issue I had was rear pulley with fan blades. Bent guard to put belt on. Thank you for tips
I'm really proud of you. Never got your hands dirty like me.
Thanks Ryan for the great tip on how to replaced the drive belt. Could not have done it with out your help.
Couldn’t get the bolt off of my ltx1050 either. I never would have guessed to unbolt the engine, thanks!
I didnt have any trouble getting the motor bolts out, but I did have issues trying to get the belt on the upper pulley. I took a floor jack and put it on the bottom pulley and lifted the motor up, then I could easily put the belt back on and ease the motor down. You are correct about there not being anything else attached to the motor deck except for the four bolts, funny how the exhaust wasn't bolted down. (a bonus for sure). Once I had the front on, I did take the time to take the rear fan out and pull the pulley up and put the belt on that way, its a locking nut and I used a Makita impact drill to take the nut off, cleaned the fan, put the belt on and then replaced the fan. Oh before I forget, you didn't say anything about the parking brake having to be on, until you disengaged it, and putting the parking brake on makes putting the belt on way easier. I was about 3 hours on the entire project. Just took my time and did it right.. thanks so much for your GENIUS idea.. it worked Great!
Well I have had a hard time trying to take that one bolt off so I'm going to give your method a try thank you very much and I will let you know how it worked out thank you
That’s what I did on my cub cadet LTX 1040. Tilting the engine works great.
You ever think of taking 1 bolt out holding the pulleys dropping down enough to put belt on then retightening instead of pulling engine bolts
Yeah, that would be much better.
Sometimes those pully's are froze. I LIKE IT. Also I don't have an impact hammer for the crank bolt. Like my step-dad always said " there's more than one way to skin a cat"
Issues with plastic part above transmission pulley....belt is caught between that and pulley....quick way to fix?
Take the pulley off instead of the engine bolts. Way easy to do
Can you tell me if that was a 1/2" ×96.8 belt, they sent me a 1/2×79 it's to short,thanks
Awesome easy do it thx 😊
What size was the belt I ordered a 79.5 per the manual instruction for my ltx1042kw and it's too short
ITS A 103,24 LENGTH
I have an LTX1045 and put a 79” drive belt on mine. It worked excellent.
Put the belt on trans pulley and then the center pulley, it’s easier 😊
I have a Cub Cadet 1554 and replaced the drive belt last year with a new Cub Cadet belt but it has shredded already. Someone suggested to bend the steel tabs back to get the new belt on the drive shaft pulley but that was not easy last year so I might try moving the engine. The drive shaft pulley is supposed to slide down the shaft to get the new belt on but it is seized up on the shaft and won’t move probably because anti-seize lubricant was not put on at the factory.
I put new one on but it drive in gear on it on and hard to stop
Good video. Last belt change on my LT1050, I cut part way thru the belt retaining fins to make them easier to bend out of the way. I wonder if those are even necessary on the LT1050, which keeps the belt in tension at all times. I may try your method next time and/or grind off those fins entirely. I actually used my engine lift to raise the front of the mower.
Your mower was awfully clean. Pre-cleaning the mower is always a good idea and use safety glasses or goggles to keep debris out of your eyes. Chock those tires.
Belt tension is released every time brakes are applied
So, rather than removing the clutch….. you just unbolt the engine and slip the drive belt around the pulley?
Thanks young man
You watch a few of these and get an idea or two from each . Like other Tools in a Box, some Ideas will be useful one day, Others the next time . I do think the cooling fin is gonna be something Great Uncle is gonna want back on HIS machine . just sayin ; not yours, put it back the way you got it . Otherwise appreciated the option of loosening the engine to help get the pulley back on . Good Video .
Yea, probably should put that back on, it's somewhere. The transmission ran low on fluid and currently doesn't work, I've got it in my garage to fix at some point, but I've got a old Murray and a Craftsman Garden tractor that I'm using to cut grass and maintain the property.
Why don’t you like cub cadet? I had one bought in 2010 had zero issues, just replaced one drive belt and obviously regular maintenance
I like mine too. It's almost 20 years old and still runs and mows good, but I did have to replace the deck because of rust. I had a parts one laying around, and used the deck off of it. It has 325 hours on it at this moment. You might also need to purge the air out of the hydrostatic drive by putting it in standby mode and pressing forward and reverse for about ten seconds, and do that 3 to 5 times the put it back in drive mode. Otherwise it could start getting slow especially in reverse.
Good job
Is this the upper drive belt or the lower?
I just snapped the 10mm bolt off the trans drive shaft. Murphy shows up on every single project of mine. Ha
Use a good Impact and remove the pto pully.Far easier!!
Some people like to do things the hard way. LOL
You have an impact gun,why didn't you just remove the bolt to the engine pulley and drop the pulley a couple inches,put the belt on the upper pulley,push the pulley back up and tighten bolt? Much easier to remove one bolt than the four engine bolts.
I didn't have a socket to fit the bolt, plus I wasn't sure I would be able to get the bolt off without spinning engine, but I can probably try that next time
@@FarmerRyan-dl3rb With an impact the bolt will come out without spinning the motor.The next issue you may run into is the pulley coming off.If you can get it off,apply some anti-seize to the shaft before putting the pulley back on so it will come off with ease the next time. Good luck.
@@FarmerRyan-dl3rb I was able to get the bolt out of the shaft holding the PTO cluth and engine pulley. My problem is that the PTo clutch wouldn't come off. I think I may put it back together and try it your way. thanks!
Good Job
You probably should not have taken that fan off lol. But other than that good job
Impossible to see details with the camera moving so much
epic
You don't have to do all that to change the belt
1) Drop deck 2) lift front end 3) drop electric clutch 4) remove belt 5) install belt 👌 That's literally all you have to do
WELL HIS WAY IS MORE SIMPLE TO ME
Problem is, for me at least, it is almost impossible to drop the electric clutch. It just won’t budge.
I couldn’t get the pully nut off and did the same thing yesterday. Who ever engineered this is terrible.
It's Cub Cadet (MTD) just trying to make something cheap and make money, the newer Cub Cadets seem a little better, but craftsman is the way to go
Why don't you use some of those thinking cells to figure out how to edit a 20-minutes-too-fucking-long video into 5 minutes?
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Good job