When your finally able to start the mower please update this thread! I have to know.
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If you can, I recommend waiting until you can replace the fan. Maybe this fits?:
https://www.amazon.com/Husqvarna-Fan-black-1a646083070-Replaces-414415-583350101/dp/B00TD59K9K/
Have you discovered why the tensioner failed?
If you haven't already, considered getting new belts.
If you can, I recommend waiting until you can replace the fan. Maybe this fits?:
https://www.amazon.com/Husqvarna-Fan-black-1a646083070-Replaces-414415-583350101/dp/B00TD59K9K/
Thanks, I've already found a local source though. I'm in Denmark and much of the stuff on Amazon doesn't ship here. It does look exactly like the one I need. The part number in my manual is 5069868-01
Have you discovered why the tensioner failed?
My theory is that I attempted to cut too much too fast. Normally I'll just rip belt #2 in the picture below. This time shaft #14 came loose from bolt #15 so the entire assembly dangled below the mower. The tensioner pulley #25 may have gotten stuck, because it was demolished in the process.
If you haven't already, considered getting new belts.
Oh, I have. I replaced belt #3, as well as pulley #25 and the belt in the cutting deck. Belt #3 and the cutting deck belt was ripped, while I belt #2 seems ok. I did order a replacement for #2 though. Just kinda annoyed that I didn't notice the fan issue earlier, because I was really planning on giving the garden an autumn mowing this weekend.
I don't think the hub of the fan was pulled over to make those grazes, I think it's more likely those happened when blades broke off or something went into the fan and was dragged over the transmission case.
As for running without, that fan is partly there for direct cooling, partly to keep grass clippings from collecting on top. Even in cooler temps, a blanket of clippings could make it get hotter than it should be.
Crazy to me there's no guard on that fan. Even one with large openings, chicken-wire type (but stronger) would've prevented whatever got in there to cause the blades to break.
You mean besides the cover? Nothing should be able to get in there that could do this.
It probably happened when the tensioner failed and the belt flew off.
This is the right answer. The fan should be easy enough to fix since it’s held in with a clip, and a quick search for that fan shows they’re less than $20 in the US.
In addition to getting hotter than it should be, the grass could catch on fire and make for a very bad day.
Time for a new lawnmower
You sound like the mrs... But a new, comparable, mower is about 5000€ and I have a too close and personal relationship with my money to part with that much money for when a 25€ part might do the trick.
It will reduce the lifespan but not kill the transmission to run it without the fan- especially because you said it's 10C.
As you can see the fan is held on with a clip and easy to replace- unlike my zero turn.
Is there any play in the fan when you take the belt off?
I'll have to investigate that, but there wasn't any play with the belt on.
Could you have possibly run over some brush that could have made it's way into the engine compartment?