Have your cooling system checked and cleaned daily to prevent engine overheating; especially more often under dirty conditions. Clean the radiator, oil cooler and the radiator screen of any grass or debris using compressed air or low water pressure such as a garden hose. Do not use high water pressures or you could damage the oil cooler and the radiator. When washing your decks or flails with a pressure washer or steam cleaner, avoid washing bearing areas. Cleaning solutions may penetrate bearing seals and cause premature bearing failure
David Court
Golf Ventures West-Corona
We have run into customers who say their older generation LF series mower will crank and not start. After verifying all switches are working properly, check the battery.
I have noticed that units with a battery that can crank and engine with no issue can have voltage dropping to low for the controller to operate properly. It is easy to find this issue with a load tester. If voltage is dropping below 10 volts while cranking over the controller will not function as designed and not pull in the solenoid. Also, it is critical that the cables and ends are in good shape and corrosion free. These batteries are still usable in equipment that don’t use voltage sensitive controllers. I have had customers install new controllers thinking that was the solution to the issue and only to find out that they had just wasted $1500. Check with any of Golf Ventures West’s service departments before replacing any controller, our service call is a lot less expensive and will get your equipment running with less down time.
By Brian Nash GVW Phoenix,
Eric Lover, Golf Course Superintendent at Mesa Verde Country Club says “I love the ease of the operation and consistent reel speed that our new Jacobsen Eclipse mowers have provided. The Eclipse Mowers has given us the consistency from green to green that we were looking to achieve”.
