Attaching Rear Wheels
•Remove hardware from hardware pack.
•Insert shoulder screw through wave washer, flat washer, rear wheel, and spring washer.
•Secure shoulder screw with hardware to rear pivot bar. See Figure 5.
Spring Washer |
Wave Washer |
Shoulder |
Screw |
Flat Washer |
Rear Wheel |
Figure 5
Attaching Starter Rope
•The rope guide is attached to the right side of upper handle. Loosen the wing nut which secures the rope guide. See Figure 6.
Starter | Upper Handle |
Rope |
|
| Wing Nut |
Rope 
Guide
Lower
Handle
Figure 6
•With the spark plug wire disconnected and grounded, hold the blade control handle against the upper handle, and pull the starter rope out of the engine. Release the blade control handle. Slip the starter rope into the rope guide. Tighten the wing nut.
Grass Catcher Assembly
NOTE: Make certain the grass bag is turned right side out before assembling (warning label will be on the outside).
1.Frame Assembly
2.Bag
3.Hardtop Cover*
4.Mounting Bracket *
5.Two self Tapping Screws* *Hardtop Cover only.
Assembling Soft Top Grass Catcher
•Place the bag over the frame (black plastic side is the bottom of bag). Slip the openings in the side of the plastic channels on the bag over the hooks on the grass catcher frame.
•Secure bag to frame by working the plastic channels on bag over frame as shown in Figure 7B. All of the plastic channels except the center top of the bag attach from the outside of bag. The center top of the bag attaches from inside the bag.
A | Plastic | B |
| Channels | Frame |
|
| Hook |
| Frame |
|
| Assembly |
|
| Bag |
|
|
| Plastic |
|
| Channels |
Figure 7
Attaching Hardtop Cover
•Slide the hardtop cover under the grass catcher handle, positioning it so the handle rests snugly into the notch in the cover, and press the frame into the tabs at the back of the cover.
•Position the mounting bracket facing down between the front of the handle and the front of the hardtop cover so that the holes in the cover line up with the holes in the bracket. Insert the self tapping screws down through the hardtop cover and mounting bracket. See Figure 8.
| Grass |
| Catcher |
| Handle |
| Self Tapping |
Notch in | Screws |
| |
Hardtop |
|
Cover |
|
Mounting |
|
Bracket |
|
Figure 8
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