MTD 190-459A-100 User Manual

OWNERS

MANUAL

Model No.

190-459A-100

CAUTION;

Read Rules for

Safe Operation

and Instructions

Carefully

II

• Assembly

• Operation

• Maintenance

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SAFETY RULES.......................................................... 2

CARTON CONTENTS

ASSEMBLY iNSTRUCTiONS......................................... 3

OPERATION................................................................... 6

MAINTENANCE

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STORAGE................................................................... 7

SERVICE AND ADJUSTMENTS

TROUBLESHOOTING................................................... 8

REPAIR PARTS EXPLOSION........................................10

REPAIR PARTS LIST

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SAFETY

Any power equipment can cause injury if operated improperly or if the user does not understand how to operate

the equipment. Exercise caution at ail times, when using power equipment.

1. Read the vehicle and sweeper owners manuals and
know how to operate your vehicle and sweeper
before using this sweeper attachment. Always in
struct other users before they operate the sweeper.

2. Do not permit children to operate sweeper.

3. Do not permit anyone to ride on sweeper.

4. Never attach the hopper rope to any part of your body
or clothing! Never hold onto the rope while towing the
sweeper! Attach the rope to the towing vehicle to
keep it away from wheeis and rotating parts.

6.

attachment of this sweeper. Do not fill sweeper to
maximum capacity without checking the capability of
the towing vehicle to safely pull and stop with the
sweeper attached. Stay off of steep slopes.

7.

Stop and inspect vehicle and sweeper for damage
after striking an object. Repair any damage before
continuing operation.

8.

Keep sweeper away from ftre. Excessive heat can

damage the brushes and hopper bag and could
cause the bag and its contents to burn.

5. Operate the sweeper at reduced speed on rough
terrain, near ditches and on hillsides to prevent loss
of control.

Look for this symbol to point out important safety precautions, it means-Attentionl!
Become alert I! Your safety is involved.

Before storing the sweeper, always empty the hopper

3.
bag to avoid spontaneous combustion.

10. Follow maintenance and iubncation instructions as

outlined in the maintenance section of this manual.

CARTON CONTENTS

1. Sweeper Assembly

2. Brace Rods (2)

3. Rope

4. Hopper Assembly

ASSEMBLY

HARDWARE FOR ASSEMBLY

Hardware Is preassembled to sweeper and hopper.

1. Remove the nuts, lock washers and bowed washers
from the two curved head bolts, leaving the bolts in
the tube at the front of the sweeper housing. See
figure 1.

2. Loosen the knob fastening the height adjustment

handle to the height adjustment strap. See figure 1.

3. Place the base of the height adjustment handle onto
the two curved head bolts and secure it with the
bowed washers, lock washers and hex nuts that you
removed. See figure 1.

TOOLS REQUIRED

(1) 1/2" Wrench

4. Attach the ends of the lower hopper tubes to the
Inside of the side hopper tubes using the two 3/8" x
1/2" clevis pins and 3/32" hair cotter pins which came
preassembled to the tubes. See figure 2.

IMPORTANT; Do not over bend the support rods
during the fotlowing step. Over bending will cause the

spring steel rods to loose supporting tension.

5. Assemble the two hopper support rods as shown in
figure 3, Place one end of a rod into the hole in an
upper hopper tube and bend the rod just enough to fit
the bottom end of the rod into the hole in a bottom
hopper tube.

HINT: To ease assembly of the rods, tip the hopper bag

back so that the rear of the bag rests on the ground.

7. Assemble the hopper bag to the sweeper by sliding
the ends of the bag arm tubes into the ends of the
hitch tubes. Secure with two 1/4“ x 1-1/2" clevis pins

and 3/32” hairpin cotters that came preassembied to

the hitch tubes. See figure 5.

FIGURES

6. Secure the rope around the middle of the upper

hopper tube as shown in figure 4.