Having problems finding a belt for my blades.

take the belt off and be sure the pulleys turn freely. sounds like you mowed through water and they may have some rust on them or the bearings in the spindles are bad. just take the belt off, turn the pulleys and find the one that is bad and repair it.

With most small lawn tractors I've dealt with, you want to unhook the deck-blade drive belt, some have one large belt that turns the blades as well as the rear wheels, others have more than one belt.. usually you will find four brackets that suspend the entire mower deck below the lawn tractor. To locate these brackets raise the mower deck so that its not resting on the ground, then push the mower deck side to side and notice where the attaching arms are moving under mower but above the deck, once you find the four brackets, lower the deck 2 its lowest point. remove the connecting pins noting the exact hole each pin came out of, if you have not removed the belt bye now do so at this time. you may find a stubborn piece of metal preventing the belt from coming off near the larger pulley Don't bend it out of the way just remove or loosen its nut,its there 4 a reason. so now, 1 the belts off the pulley. 2. the pins or bolts have been removed from the suspending arms and the hole positions have been noted. remove any other actuating rods or levers remaining so that the mower deck can slide out from under the mower. you may have to put the front wheels on a 4x4 blocks or similar to accomplish this. once you've got the deck out carefully turn it upside down, use blocks to keep from mashing pulleys, etc. you will probably see two or three blades, remove hex head bolt w/ washer holding blade to spindle, be sure to note cutting side of blade and direction of travel. If you don't see bolts in the center of blade look for my other solution for changing blades and blade bearings.

Your blades are worn and need replaced.

The momentary squeal is nothing to be concerned about. If it were prolonged then it would require disengaging the blades and investigating so as not to destroy the belt, but that is not the problem that you have (informational only).

You should not waste your time worrying about blades orientation. If you look at the deck the blades are not all in the same line. They are staggered to allow for correct cutting without blades hitting eachother. This is by design.

You should find that replacing the blades will eliminate the 2 stripes of grass you are leaving.

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Hi and welcome to FixYa I am Kelly.

Maybe I am missing the obvious but I have had a couple of people that had this problem with since new use of a mower. One of them had the wrong blades with the deck and the 2nd one the baldes were installed with the air foil side DOWN. If you have Air-flow problems under your deck the above is possible or your blade deck drive belt is routed incorrectly. The decal for the blade deck belt routing should still be on your deck. Look at the decal drawing vs the actual routing of the deck belt. It is highly possible that one or more of your blades is driving backward.
If you can not find your decal (would be hard not to find it on a deck not 1 year old!), I will try and look it up but I need the model number of mower and the DECK (2 ea model numbers 1 for mower 1 for deck)

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Kelly

well yep it is,,,look at the deck first to check its not tight to turn look for sezed up bearings,,,then check that the drive belt/s are tight and not flopy and slipping also it would be a good time to check the cutting blades they need to be sharp and not blunt or they strain the belts and start them slipping too also the engine wont like the extra load put on it

The belt should last longer than 6 months. The mechanics should not simply replace the belt without investigating to find the cause. Have them take the deck off and look at it closely, as well as studying the failed belt to see if it's been worn down as a result of constant rubbing, or if it simply snapped as a result of something seizing up suddenly.
Possible causes: a blade spindle could be binding, or an idler pulley could be binding or misaligned. With the belt off, check that these all spin freely and don't have excessive play. The belt could be also the wrong size or not the heavy-duty kind needed. Finally, if the blades were very dull that could also shorten belt life, but you would have noticed that by the poor grass cutting results - brown, frayed ends on the grass.
Good luck! Please rate my answer if helpful, thank.

Most likely the mower belt is rubbing and causing this. But don't try to find it with the mower running! With the engine off, lower the deck and inspect the mower belt for worn or burnt spots. The problem isn't the belt, though. Look under the mower deck - is a branch or other object stuck in there? Get it out, and replace the belt if it's badly burnt.

If it's not a stuck object, than you probably have a frozen spindle (the bearings that hold the mower blades) or idler pulley. Remove the belt and spin each of these by hand to find the problem. The pulleys are not expensive, but the spindles are. I hope it's just a branch. Good luck! Please rate if helpful, thanks!

Having the same problem and it seems on mine that tha blade engagement assemble is not fuctioning properly. Could be tha belt mine seems really loose. Im going 2 take another look tommorrow, and posssible replace tha belt.

Try this one. It may have what you're looking for. Without your model #, I don't know.... http://www.partstree.com/parts/ Click on Cub Cadet then enter you model # on the left.

The belts are available part number is SV150. Call ALM Manufacturing 01423 797208 for advice/stockists.