I bought a troy super bronco 42" riding mower last July. It has a built in safety mechanism that will not allow you to go into reverse with the cutting blades engaged. The mower stops running. All of my neighbors with riding mowers {none with a troy] have had the safety mech disconnected so that they can go into reverse, and still have the cutting blades engaged. The business owner where I bought the mower says he cannot, by law, help me out. Is there any way I can get the info needed. Someone said it is simply a disconnect of one wire. But, which one? Thanks

The business owner where I bought the mower says he cannot, by law, help me out. Is there any way I can get the info needed.

This is correct, the business owner is correct. He cannot tell you how to disable the switch, which is done for diagnostics. And I as well will never tell anyone anything about how to bypass a safety switch. Sorry, but there is too much liabilities involved with telling someone how to do such. If someone told you on this site how to bypass a safety device on your unit, you did so, and then got injured yourself, or injured someone else, the person that instructed you on how to bypass the safety device could be held liable and be sued. That is just it in a nutshell. I know it may seem aggrevating that you have to disengage the deck to back up, but the unit is designed that way for a specific reason. For the operator's and bystander's safety.

I have same prob, same non-answer. Please e-mail me.

Having been on both sides of the fence, both designing of extremely complex safetys and mechanisms to defeat all or part of the safety system for either troubleshooting or to allow other parts of a process to continue. Each individual process could be locked out with a key.

When troubleshooting, you could disable key parts.

I've seen systems designed where different keys were used to open panels than to allow operation of the equipment.

There were pieces of equipment where if you had two switches on at the same time, you were down for a week.

So, as part of the diagnostic process, in many cases they need to be disabled, however, when they are you have to really pay attention and that's the problem.

When you try to make things idiot-proof, a better idiot always seems to come along.

I own a name brand leaf blower vac that I wish had a safety. You can open the squirrel cage while the engine is running whereas another unit I owned would shut off. The manufacturer of the one without says, the door is spring loaded so it doesn't need one and won't get one.

That is the most ridiculous "safety" feature ever. I have had several riders and never had a problem. I followed the shifter linkage down under the axle and discovered how the mechanism works. It isn't that hard to disable the electrical sensor. I won't tell you how, but I am sure you can figure it out.

Bunch of scared old men wimps if you ask me! :-p

Just unplug the yellow wire going into your rear axle and voilà! Mowing in reverse.