[AJD] Lawn Tractor

[Richard D Lotze]

Someone might run into this problem.

I just bought a L120 lawn tractor at a dealer overstock Auction. It only
had 240 hrs and yet the front tires were bald. everything else was in
great shape. It was going cheap enough so I bid on it and it became mine.
When I went to load it on the trailer it steered terrible. The wheels
where towed out and tight turns were impossible as the two wheels would
fight each other. I get it home and figured I'd adjust the drag links.
Wrong - NO adjustment. This model has two pre bent non adjustable links -
one to each wheel from the steering sector. 1st thought was that axle was
bent, but it is cast iron. 2nd thought is that the Steel frame is bent.
Straight edge says no. 3rd thought is that cast iron axle would have
precast camber built in and if axle was in backwards this would put
camber backwards thus making the drag links the wrong length. Had to take
muffler and guards off to get at the King pin and found Deere used a bolt
and nut requiring an 18MM wrench, which is not supplied in any regular
wrench and socket sets, and no SAE size worked and the adjustable wrench
rounded off  the corners. So out comes the Blue wrench (torch). So after
turning the axle around the wheels now are towed in and it makes very
tight turns with ease. THIS MOWER WAS ASSEMBLED WRONG IN THE FACTORY and
apparently the dealer didn't know how to fix it so he just sold the owner
a new one.
So if you have this problem you now know how to fix it.
Dick L.