Yard Machines 429 manual Attaching Grass Catcher To Mower, Assembling Chute Deflector If equipped

Front Frame

Slide

plastic

channel

over frame

•Place the mounting bracket under the front of the handle, with the tabs on the bracket facing up. Insert phillips head screw down through the hardtop cover and mounting bracket. Secure with hex lock nut. See Figure 10.

Attaching Grass Catcher To Mower

NOTE: Make certain cables are routed to the outside of the handle so they are not in the way when attaching the grass catcher.

Figure 8

•Slip openings of the plastic channel on bag over the grass catcher frame. See Figure 8. Secure front of bag to front frame by working five plastic channels on bottom, sides and top of bag over frame.

•Hold the bag and frame so the bag hangs from the frame (is not bunched around the frame). Slide the handle of the grass catcher frame through the slot in the hardtop cover as shown in Figure 9.

Grass
Catcher	Slide frame
Handle
	through this
	slot
Hardtop
Cover

Figure 9

•Press the rear frame into the two tabs at the back of the hardtop cover. Put the cross bar on the front frame into the channel in front of the hardtop cover

Phillips Head

Screw

Mounting

Bracket

Lock

Nut

Figure 10

•If your mower is equipped with a mulching baffle, it is in place on the mower. To remove the mulching baffle, lift the rear discharge door on the mower.

Remove the mulching baffle. See Figure 11 inset.

Mulch

Baffle

Place hook	Rear Discharge
	Door
on slot here

Figure 11

•To attach the grass catcher: Lift the rear discharge door on the mower. Place the hooks on the grass catcher into the slots in the handle bracket assemblies. Release the rear discharge door. See Figure 11.

•To remove the grass catcher: Lift the rear discharge door on the mower as shown in Figure 11. Lift the grass catcher up, out of the slots in the handle bracket assemblies. Release the rear discharge door.

WARNING: Never operate mower unless the hooks on the grass catcher are firmly seated in the slots on the handle bracket assemblies, and the rear discharge door rests firmly against top of the grass catcher.

Assembling Chute Deflector (If equipped)

If your mower is equipped with the optional chute deflector, assemble as follows:

•Slide the rod into the upper edge of the chute deflector so the tab on the rod is toward the left side of the chute deflector. When assembled correctly,

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