John Deere LX176
The John Deere LX176 was built out in Horicon, Wisconsin over an 8 year period, throughout the nineties from 1990 until production ceased in 1998. It is one of John Deere’s smaller models with 0.4 liter engine designed and built by Kawasaki. It’s their FC420V model that takes gasoline and was just a 1 cylinder, air cooled, naturally aspirated engine with an oil capacity of 1.6 liters. This power is transferred to the wheels via a hydrostatic transmission with infinite forward and reverse speeds. The chassis is a 4×2 2WD. The transmission requires 3.4 liters of oil to operate properly. The top speed on the LX 176 is 5.5 mph and in reverse it can manage 2.5 mph.
The capacity of the fuel tank is just 9.5 liters (2.5 US gallons) allowing for just a few hours operating time before requiring a refill. The most popular attachments for the John Deere LX 176 are snow blowers. It can take either a 38″ or 42″ snowblower attachment on the front for clearing driveways. It can also take a varying number of mowing decks. The largest is a 48″ deck, but it can also take a 44″ and 38″ one also. Obviously the larger deck will struggle more in damp and long grass. But if the grass is dry and not too long, then this mowing deck will make mince meat of it and not stall at all.
There is no cab on the JD LX 176, but there is the option of a sun umbrella. The turning radius on the lawn mower is a reasonable 0.51 meters (20 inches). This model is still used today, although many opt for a smaller 38″ mowing deck so as not to stall the engine during the summertime, while at winter it is equally useful at clearing snow.
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I has been a very reliable unit. First purchased new and used by my late father, I inherited it in 2013. In that time I have only put about 125 hours on it.
Mowing this unit works beautifully however, thick long grass seems to be a bit much for this 3 blade 44” deck. Alas, no bagging attachment is available for it.
The 38” snowthrower works great! Heavy wet snow is fine until it gets too deep. Then it struggles a bit. You can still clear it, it just takes longer. Most 95% of MN winters are no problem for this little machine.
Parts are expensive, so cross checking parts on EBay is a must.
No problems that others above have stated. Battery replacement? Yes. Fuel pump 3 years ago, oil filter attachment o- rings to fix a leak and PTO switch was all I needed to do. (Oh yeah, new seat)
Added an hour meter from EBay ($8).
Hood Will Break. Cannot/Will not run in Winter. However, the paint looks nice for years so you can make your neighbors jealous with the pretty yellow and green. Additionally, the metal thickness is a heavier gauge than industry standard so it holds up longer that other disposable lawn mowers however, it cost twice as much…so…not really a plus because YOU are paying for it so YOU should expect this quality. DEERE should offer the owners of the lawn tractors replacement hoods and mechanisms slightly cheaper than 1,000 dollars to replace the original shoddy quality. Not only that it should be a design that is reinforced not the EXACT same piece of crap…what an insult!.
Excellent
Very expensive LUXURY, but cuts 4 acres and has been running for 15 years, with loads of repairs. Again REPAIR PARTS ARE VERY EXTREMELY HIGH>
Very responsive steering. small enough for a 2 acre yard and turing radius very good. Hyd drive works well.
Very comfortable ride.. Best lawn mower made by John Deere. Do not see why they stopped making it.
Now own a x500 with 48″ deck- very good , but no match for lx176.
All Plastic housing falls apart.. Very cheap made.
High lift blades very noisy, do not use.