re: Bought a SCAG Liberty Z This Morning - Delivery Tomorrow. Maintenance Tips?

Always keep a spare belt, set of wheel bearings, spindle, idler pulley.

Buy a grease gun. Depending upon your motor, I only run 15w40 rotella in the old scag with the kawasaki. Only run mobil1 0w40 in anything with a briggs motor.

Check your filter, you can get oversized versions with the same flow rate and bypass pressure for usually 20% of the oem filters.


I change air filter, deck belt, and blades once a year. But I'm mowing about 1500 acres a season. And I don't stop for anything short of a concrete block

When you finally kill the front tires... Go solid tire. When you finally kill the rear, get some with grip.

I spend about 150 bucks a year on maintenance. Spindles last 3 years or so.

Proper zero turns for home use are the definition of overkill. And it's great.


Even I just question the downvotes?

You can fix anything on a zero turn that actually breaks in under an hour as long as you have the parts on hand. Keep the things I have listed and your mower will never be down for more than an hour. I don't even keep spark plugs on hand but then again I do run wide open throttle.